Polish Poets Threaten Google Supremacy!

Google has launched legal action once again, this time against a group of Polish Poets! How's that for coming down hard on the little guy? In the press release Google is evidently trying to get the money hungry, robber baron poets to give up their Internet domain name gmail.pl.

I don't see how Google stood for this type of piracy this long, but Izabela Krawcyz of GMAil – the “Grupa Mlodych Artstow I Literatow, ” or Group of Young Artists and Writers told AFP that Google has turned to the country's IT and telecommunications tribunal to attempt to stop them from using the address http://www.gmail.pl/.

Google says that GMAil has no rights to the name that resembles the US firm's internationally known mail service http://www.gmail.com/. The poet site is enjoying snowballing global success, which encouraged Google ( and the hoard of wanna be bean counters there) to try and snap up variants of the name that use suffixes like .pl in Poland. Krawczyk blasted the suggestion that the group is looking for a payoff from Google to buy the domain name back. Google obviously rather pay Polish lawyers more to get the domain I bet, than to actually pay poets anything for their domain terrorism (sheesh).

“We didn't buy this name just to sell it to Google. As a matter of pride, we're refusing to give it up,” she said.

Google's lawyers were not available for comment, but Krawczyk said Google has made no offer for financial settlement. Google has faced similar problems for failing to register local versions of its domain name in Britain and Germany.

I don't know about you guys but after I write this I am going to see if there is an organization in Poland called Young Anorexic Hotties On Oxycontin (Yahoo) or maybe Mostly Sadistic Nerds (MSN). Heck the major players may not have enough money to track down all the potential infractions. I bet Google uses an algorithm and a crawler to track down would be poets all over the globe. I wonder if I can get everyone with my name to have their's changed?