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1. chayfrancisco
   Member
   Jun 28, 2012, 3:35 AM

   Name: Lipozene Webmaster
   Email address: [email redacted]

   To Whom It May Concern:

   It has come to our attention that a link posted on your website is directed at our trademarked domain name http://www.lipozene.com. This link is causing Lipozene's business, SEO Ranking and brand recognition great distress, and despite having repeatedly asked you to remove any link on your page directed at Lipozene, to date nothing has been done. At this point if action is not taken by you to remove all links pointed at Lipozene we will forward this issue on to our legal team for any and all appropriate legal action including but not limited to filing for injunctive relief and damages. Please confirm your receipt of this e-mail immediately and confirm that any and all links which exist on your site will be removed within 48 hours or we will be forced to take legal action.

   Regards,

   Lipozene IT Department

   The blog I need help with is chayfrancisco.wordpress.com.

2. timethief
   Member
   Jun 28, 2012, 3:38 AM

   Hello there,
   This is a peer support forum. Here Volunteers answer support questions. Any sabre rattling at this level is misplaced as we have no ability to address your issue. Please see these:
   http://en.wordpress.com/abuse/
   http://en.wordpress.com/complaints/
   http://en.support.wordpress.com/disputes/

3. raincoaster
   Member
   Jun 28, 2012, 4:09 AM

   I very much doubt you can enforce a request not to be linked to on the internet.

4. auxclass
   Member
   Jun 28, 2012, 4:16 AM

   There are a lot of sites that claim Lipozone is an unsafe scam and some reference various lawsuit's and ingredients being banned in several countries -

   but yes a blanket "you can't link to us" sounds like a tough sell since that is the whole basis of the internet - they could bust individual blogs if the blog copied large amounts of content from their site

5. raincoaster
   Member
   Jun 28, 2012, 4:18 AM

   Suing for trademark violation or defamation is one thing. Insisting nobody can link to you is likely to bring on the Streisand Effect, on which I recently blogged. http://www.dailydot.com/news/morning-gif-postmedia-dan-murphy/

6. auxclass
   Member
   Jun 28, 2012, 5:07 AM

   I liked the part of your article where the activists were putting links to the parody.

   And for someone to put links to Lipozone and to the articles about legal trouble etc. I would think would be legal - irritating but legal

7. raincoaster
   Member
   Jun 28, 2012, 5:11 AM

   It is in Canuckistan, I believe. And in the US, so far, the corporations haven't won THAT much.

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