Hacker Site Raises GM’s Hackles. After 2600‘s recent high-profile loss in the court case brought by the MPAA over its posting of links to DeCSS (which defeats the copy-protection scheme on DVD’s), it is again courting legal danger by registering unflattering domain names referring to large corporations. General Motors demands that the magazine turn over the rights to fuckGeneralMotors.com on trademark infringement grounds. 2600 defends its actions on free speech grounds. It has also registered FuckNBC.com and VerizonReallySucks.com. Interestingly, Verizon, which has recently been going after unauthorized uses of its name on the web, decided that the 2600-registered domain did not violate fair use principles. I’m not a lawyer but it’s hard to see how GM or anyone else could make a case that these infringe on their trademark rights, any more than, say, a book about a company that uses that company’s name in its title. Wired