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- 'Be Grateful for Etoy' - Opinions of John Perry Barlow, EFF co-founder, on the etoy/eToys lawsuit. By Steve Kettmann. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,33159,00.html
- A Protest Group Fights Back - RTMark said it hoped to mess with eToys' site operations and traffic counts. [ZDTV Internet Tonight]
www.zdnet.com/zdtv/internettonight/netculture/jump/0,4603,2409365,00.html
- A Tale of Two eToys - What happens when an e-commerce giant takes on a group of Swiss cyber-artists in court? Internet chaos. [Time Digital].
www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/0,2960,38205-101000127,00.html
- About Face: EToys Seeks Peaceful Co-existence - Online toy retailer drops suit, says Swiss artists can keep domain name. By Miguel Helft [The Standard].
www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,8559,00.html
- Art and Commerce Collide Online - How valuable is an "s" on the Internet? Two combatants, separated in cyberspace by that single letter, are about to find out. By Matthew Mirapaul. [New York Times] [Registration required.]
www.nytimes.com/library/financial/columns/123099internet-adcol.html
- Business Under Attack - After Etoy.com refused to sell its domain to eToys for $500,000, the U.S. online toy retailer sparked a furor among online activists when it got an injunction against Etoy.com prohibiting it from using the domain name. [Industry Standard].
www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,13483,00.html
- California Court Blocks Artists Www.Etoy.Com Domain - News bulletin focussing on etoy as artists, based on Village Voice story. [Arts Wire].
www.artscope.net/NEWS/news121499-5.html
- Campagne contre eToys - Coverage of RTMark's campaign against eToys [in French, Branchez-Vous!]
www.branchez-vous.com/actu/99-12/03-354304.html
- CNN Misrepresenting etoy vs. etoys Battle? - Discussion regarding the CNN coverage of domain dispute. [Slashdot]
slashdot.org/yro/99/12/21/1333222.shtml
- E-Riots Threaten EToys.com - "The domain name battle between toy giant eToys.com and the Swiss art site formerly known as etoy.com continues to escalate." By Steve Kettman [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33111,00.html
- E-Toy Story - In depth article on etoy's domain name fight with eToys, by Claire Barliant [Village Voice].
www.villagevoice.com:80/issues/9948/barliant.shtml
- E-Toy(s) Story - Domain name game: Online toy-seller targeted after shutting down art site for alleged confusion. By Tom Spring [PC World]
www.pcworld.com:80/pcwtoday/article/0,1510,14341,00.html
- e-TOYS: Hackers Try to Disrupt Internet Company - "Cyber-activists are mounting a co-ordinated attempt to disrupt the operations of eToys, a leading online toy store, and drive down the company's stock price." By Louise Kehoe [Financial Times]
www.rtmark.com/more/articles/etoyfinancialtimes19991218.html
- eToy and the Stripping of Culture off the Web - Short editorial [The Skinny Newzwire]
www.newzwire.com/newz/1999/tech/12/html/12-07-99.html
- Etoy Balks at Olive Branch - A spokesman for etoy dismissed a peace offer Thursday from toy giant eToys as a "PR move". By Steve Kettman [Wired News].
www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33351,00.html
- etoy Domain Name Battle Intensifies - The battle between eToys.com and etoy.com escalated this week when etoy representatives came from Switzerland to the US to rally against the court order that prevents the company from using its domain name. By John Geralds [VNUnet.com]
www.vnunet.com/News/104727
- Etoy Finally Back in Business - The controversial Web site, www.etoy.com, was finally reactivated over the weekend by Network Solutions, bringing to a close the domain-name fight between the Swiss Internet artists and the American toyseller, eToys. By Steve Kettmann [Wired News].
www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,34326,00.html
- Etoy Heads for New York City - Now that they have won an apparent victory over Santa Monica-based eToys, the Internet artists of etoy have their eyes on taking Manhattan. By Steve Kettmann [Wired News].
www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,33811,00.html
- etoy Take Manhattan - Fresh from its successful stand-off with e-commerce giant, eToys, a group of international web-based artists is bringing its witty blend of conceptual, digital and performance art to New York. By Cristina Ruiz [The Art Newspaper].
www.allemandi.com/TAN/news/article.asp?idart=1257
- Etoy Wants Trademark 'Closure' - European Internet artists group called etoy has filed a complaint against online toy retailer eToys alleging trademark infringement. [Wired]
www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41438,00.html
- Etoy's allies aren't playing around - "This is a toy war, and protesters, calling for a ''digital sit-in'' starting today, want to take down Net retailer eToys.com during its busiest season." By Janet Kornblum [USA Today]
www.rtmark.com/more/articles/etoyUSAToday19991215.html
- Etoy, etoy, etoy, etoy - Say it fast enough and it merges into the calling chant for the media hacktivists of the moment, etoy corp who have defeated the money hungry eToys Inc. [spot the 's'] in an epic court battle. By William Rowe [ninfomania].
www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1422&ch=newz
- Etoy: 'The Fight Isn't Over' - Online toy retailer eToys might be willing to back off from its domain-name struggle with the Zurich-based Internet artists of etoy, but that doesn't mean this fight is necessarily over. By Steve Kettmann [Wired News].
www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33338,00.html
- Etoy: 'This Means toywar.com!' - etoy's new online game at toywar.com -- their way of celebrating their pending victory over eToys --- offers a tour of their world and what they're all about. By Steve Kettman [Wired News].
www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33711,00.html
- Etoy: 'This Means War' - Report on the December 20 press conference at the MOMA, New York. By Jill Priluck [Wired News].
www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,33189,00.html
- Etoy: Don't Forgive, Don't Forget - Etoy is likely to have its etoy.com Web site operational again, but the Internet artists want everyone to know they're still taking nothing for granted. By Steve Kettmann [Wired News].
www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,33679,00.html
- Etoy: It's Not Over Yet - It's one thing to drop a lawsuit. It's another to "move away" from it. Which version the media heard depended on what time they were in touch with the eToys management. [Slashdot]
slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/12/30/1159249&mode=flat
- Etoy: They'll Take Manhattan - The renegade artists who defended their domain against the big toy e-tailer celebrate their victory along with hundreds of supporters with a new display and a new CD. By Mark K. Anderson [Wired].
www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,36007,00.html
- eToys attacks show need for strong Web defenses - Network-based attacks against eToys last week and the emergence of a particularly destructive method for launching such raids are fresh reminders of the need for e-commerce sites to keep their defenses sharp. By Ellen Messmer [Network World]
www.nwfusion.com/news/1999/1220etoys.html
- eToys Blows It - Short note on the domain name dispute [Upside].
www.upside.com/texis/mvm/news/index?id=384421e00
- eToys Drops Lawsuit Against Artist Group - eToys Inc., the Internet's leading toy retailer, agreed on Tuesday to drop its trademark-infringement lawsuit against etoy, a group of online conceptual artists in Europe. By Matthew Mirapaul. [New York Times] [Registration required.]
www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/01/cyber/articles/26etoy.html
- eToys Drops Lawsuit Against eToy - Short note on eToys' offer to "back away" from legal claims [slashdot].
slashdot.org/yro/99/12/29/1538212.shtml
- eToys Go Home - "eToys should be ashamed of itself, but shamelessness is a hallmark of many companies, online and off." By Dan Gillmor. [San Jose Mercury News]
www.rtmark.com/more/articles/etoysfmercury19991217.html
- eToys Inc. Drops etoy Suit - For Real This Time - Discussion about the end of the domain name struggle. [Slashdot].
slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/25/2049214&mode=nested
- eToys Lawsuit Is No Fun for Artist Group - Excellent article on the preliminary injunction against etoy and its aftermath. By Matt Mirapaul [New York Times, arts@large].
www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/cyber/artsatlarge/09artsatlarge.html
- eToys Offers to Drop Suit Against Artists Group - eToys Inc., the Web's leading toy retailer, said on Wednesday that it had offered to drop its trademark-infringement lawsuit against etoy, a European group of online conceptual artists whose supporters have mounted a vigorous Internet-based campaign protesting the toy merchant's actions. By Matthew Mirapaul [New York Times].
www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/cyber/articles/30etoy.html
- eToys Raises Domain Quandary - "A protest group called RTMark is enlisting the help of hackers to "destroy" online toy seller eToys." By Liz Enbysk [ZDNet AnchorDesk]
www.zdnet.com:80/anchordesk/story/story_4236.html
- EToys Relents, Won't Press Suit - After being pilloried in news groups and deluged by angry email, eToys said it would not press its lawsuit against the Swiss art site etoy. By Craig Bicknell [Wired News].
www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33330,00.html
- eToys Seeks Settlement in Dispute with etoy - Leading Internet toy retailer eToys extended an olive branch today in what could be the first step in ending a bitter dispute with a Swiss-based art group that owns the domain name etoy.com. By Patricia Jacobus [CNET News].
news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-1509522.html?tag=st.ne.1002
- eToys Settles etoy Dispute - Online toy giant eToys.com said Wednesday it will drop its lawsuit against a group of European conceptual artists who posted material at eToy.com. Story to follow. By Jennifer Mack [ZDNet News].
www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/bursts/0,7407,2415259,00.html
- eToys settles Net name dispute with etoy - A little-known Swiss art group operating under the "www.etoy.com" Web address emerged victorious this afternoon after settling a bitter dispute with leading online toy retailer eToys. By Patricia Jacobus [C|Net].
news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-1531854.html?tag=st.cn.1.
- eToys softens under grassroots pressure - Online toy mega-merchant eToys conceded that popular support for the Swiss art group etoy encouraged it to offer a settlement to an old domain-name contest. The company offered to withdraw its suit if etoy withdraws its counter suit. By Thomas C Greene [The Register].
www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/8517.html
- eToys Takes on etoy in a Legal Battle Yet to Be Resolved - Internet toy retailer sues a little art company [Digital Coast Weekly].
www.digitalcoastweekly.com/issues/dcr12161999.html#Headline569
- EToys vs. Etoy - A Clash of Commerce and Art. By Richard Leiby [Washington Post].
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/A39614-1999Dec9.html
- eToys.com force etoy.com à retraiter - Coverage of the domain dispute with a Canadian spin [in French, Multimédium].
www.mmedium.com/cgi-bin/nouvelles.cgi?Id=2904
- Fences in Cyberspace - Recent events in the battle over domain names, with focus on etoy vs eToys, by Felix Stalder [Telepolis].
www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/5490/1.html
- Game Over - Lawsuit Dropping Follows Holiday Shopping at eToys. By Claire Barliant [Village Voice].
www.villagevoice.com/issues/0001/barliant.shtml
- Golden Nica Winners 1996 - Review of the Golden Nica awards for 1996, including winner etoy [intelligent agent].
www.intelligent-agent.com/oct_arsel.html
- How the Etoy Campaign Was Won - Toywar I is over. After 81 days of heavy fighting, www.etoy.com is back with a great victory parade. AGENT.nasdaq reports on the art of etoy and the campaign tactics. By Reinhold Grether [Telepolis].
www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/5843/1.html
- How the Grinch stole etoy.com - Domain registration is first come, first serve. Unless you have money for lawyers - and nerve. By Joe Salkowski [Arizona Star/StarNet Dispatches]
dispatches.azstarnet.com/joe/1999/1220-945709341.htm
- Internet Face-Off - An Internet name dispute has been simmering between an avant-garde European group and online toy retailer, eToys. NPR's Jack Speer has this report. Requires RealAudio player. [NPR Weekend Edition Saturday]
www.npr.org/ramfiles/wesat/19991218.wesat.12.ram
- Interview - An interview with Zai of etoy. RealAudio [2600 Off the Hook].
www.2600.com/offthehook/1999/1299.html
- Interview with etoy - By Geri Wittig [switch].
switch.sjsu.edu/web/v5n3/I-1.html
- Is eToys paying in market cap for bullying etoy? - Report and discussion on the impact of etoy/eToys dispute on eToys' share value [Tasty Bits from the Technology Front].
www.tbtf.com/blog/1999-12-05.html#5
- ISP Blocked After eToys Protest - Access to Thing.net was blocked until one of its subscribers agreed to remove a protest site directed against eToys. By Matt Mirapaul [New York Times].
www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/cyber/articles/18etoy.html
- La grande guerra di etoy contro Etoys - La più feroce battaglia mai combattuta sul web è finita con la sconfitta del colosso dell'e-commerce di Dario Olivero [La Repubblica].
www.repubblica.it/online/tecnologie_internet/etoy/etoy/etoy.html
- Major Toy Site, Um, Er, Sucks - "Type in etoyssucks.com and voila, you're at the regular eToys Web site." [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,33184,00.html
- No EToy for Christmas - Coverage of the toywar, including a perspective on domain name dispute resolution. Very lively discussion. [slashdot]
slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/12/01/2156208&mode=thread
- Online Toy Store Under Virtual Attack - Anti-Corporate Group Takes on EToys.com. By David Noack[APB News]
www.apbnews.com:80/newscenter/internetcrime/1999/12/15/etoys1215_01.html
- Press about etoy - Collection of press coverage of etoy and RTMark's etoy Fund.
rtmark.com/etoypress.html
- Prix Ars Electronica 1996 - The jury's statement about the results of the Golden Nica awards, internet art category, 1996.
www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/english/ArsPrix96.html
- Protest Group Out To "Destroy" eToys - RTMark calling for the destruction of online toy seller eToys [ZDNet: Inter@ctive Week].
www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2408451,00.html
- RTMark Says eToys Still Suing Internet Art Group - Press release in reaction to eToys' settlement offer [Bloomberg News].
quote.bloomberg.com/analytics/bquote.cgi?story_num=74ecbcc7dc6ab245c02994d160676697&view=story&version=marketslong99.cfg
- Search Me - Article by Andrew Leonard on the Digital Hijack project [hotwired].
www.hotwired.com/packet/leonard/96/32/index3a.html
- Sell eToys. Buy etoy. - Online retailer eToys sues art group etoy over domain name. Corporate profits and artistic freedom collide. By Richard Zach [h2so4].
www.h2so4.net/etoy.html
- The Boys Behind Etoy - If the Santa Monica-based executives of eToys never quite understood their opponents in the art group etoy, they are not alone. [Wired News].
www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,34018,00.html
- The Domain Name Game - Reprint of Angela Gunn's Seattle Weekly Feature [LA Weekly].
www.laweekly.com/ink/00/05/cyber-gunn.shtml
- The etoy Strikes Back - eToys is (not surprisingly) continuing to pursue its trademark on "ETOYS", which etoy (not surprisingly) feels endangers its right to continue using its name. [Slashdot]
slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/26/2242206
- The Fine Art of Compromise - EToys Seeks Peace in Trademark Battle With Artists' Web Site. By Richard Leiby [Washington Post].
www.rtmark.com/more/articles/etoywashpost19991231.html
- The Lego Affair - Still reeling from its nasty tussle with eToys, badboy art collective etoy Corporation says it's now getting gip from a new direction: the LEGO Corporation [ninfomania].
www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1457&ch=evolve
- The Name Game - Column focusing on etoy/eToys conflict along with several other current domain-name news stories. By Angela Gunn [Seattle Weekly]
www.seattleweekly.com/features/9949/kiss-gunn.shtml
- The Toy War Escalates - etoy, ®TMark and the drop of eToys shares. By Felix Stalder [Telepolis]
www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/5585/1.html
- The War over a Single Letter - etoy vs. eToys and civil disobedience via the web. By Sean M. Dugan [InfoWorld].
www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/00/01/10/000110opprophet.xml
- This is the Part of the Site Where We Dance - "In another example of megalomaniacal e-commerce sites getting a bit too big for their britches, eToys, the online toy seller, has sued Etoy, the German performance art group, for copyright infringement." By Ed Lee. [ZDTV Internet Tonight]
www.zdnet.com/zdtv/internettonight/netculture/story/0,4602,2408459,00.html
- This Means eWar! - Online retailing giant eToys.com plays legal hardball with a similarly named group of digital artists. By Claire Barliant [City Pages, Twin Cities]
www.citypages.com/databank/20/991/article8260.asp
- Toy Story - Article on the domain name dispute, by Mark Gimein [Salon.com].
www.salonmagazine.com:80/tech/log/1999/11/30/etoys/index.html
- Toying with Domain Names - The corporation-mocking Internet artists behind Swiss-based etoy can feel the groundswell of support welling up behind them in their dramatic court battle with the Rock & Roll Elmo-pushers at etoys.com. By Steve Kettman [Wired News].
www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32936,00.html
- Toying With Domain Names - As usual, there's more to this one than meets the eye. By David Fiedler [WebDeveloper.com].
webdeveloper.com/refresh/refresh_122899.html
- Toywars - The group formerly known as ETOY lost the first round of its battle with eToys. By Felix Stalder [Telepolis].
www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/5562/1.html
- Trademark Infringement Suit - NPR's Madeleine Brand reports on a dispute between online toy retailer, etoys.com, and a German arts group, etoy.com. The toy company is suing the arts group for trademark infringement. Requires RealAudio player [NPR Morning Edition].
www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/19991213.me.06.ram
- Two Fourths - Journalist Silke Tudor joined etoy.AGENTS as they tore up the town on a July 4th Nightcrawl [SF Weekly].
www.sfweekly.com/issues/1998-07-08/columns.html
- Victory Declared in the Toy War - Online retail giant drops lawsuit against artists. By Iain Aitch [The Independent].
www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Features/2000-01/toywar310100.shtml
- Victory for Etoy Is At Hand - The domain-name battle between etoy and eToys has finally lurched to a conclusive end. By Steve Kettmann [Wired].
www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33907,00.html
- We Have a Winnah! - Sometimes nice guys finish first. By David Fiedler [WebDeveloper.com ].
www.webdeveloper.com/refresh/refresh_012700.html
- Web Revolts Against eToys - Opinion piece arguing that eToys' actions are "another attempt to control the internet through litigation." [TechMall].
www.techmall.com/techdocs/TS991210-2.html
- What's in an "S"? Ask eToys - "While eToys is busy making friends in the teddy-bear crowd, it's making a few foes among art and free-speech advocates." By Miguel Helft [The Industry Standard]
www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,8205,00.html
- Who's the Biggest Toy-Box Bully? - Christopher Lochhead from Scient, Rob Enderle from the Giga Information Group, Josh Silverman from evite, and Malcolm Casselle from Pacific Convergence Corp. join Spin host John C. Dvorak. [ZDTV Silicon Spin].
www.zdnet.com/zdtv/siliconspin/features/story/0,3725,2413117,00.html
- Why Editors Love Etoy vs. eToys - Explains the appeal of the etoy vs. eToys conflict to journalists and readers alike. [The Standard]
www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,8391,00.html
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