Mark Thompson wrote:



They are still there tho, but I've found reports of lots of sites that have just
had to close down after receiving the threatening letters. They can of course
start up under a new name but they lose all their search engine rankings so
no-one can find them.

It seems rather unlikely to me that they could win, given how widespread
the "r-us" usage is and the complete absence of any overlap between the
nature of the sites. But that doesn't mean they could cause the site
owners a lot of trouble and cost them time and money defending themselves...

James