id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt www-techdirt-com-8880 Chia Cryptocurrency, Started By BitTorrent Creator Bram Cohen, Engaging In Obnoxiously Bogus Trademark Bullying | Techdirt .html application/xhtml+xml 4295 347 78 Chia Cryptocurrency, Started By BitTorrent Creator Bram Cohen, Engaging In Obnoxiously Bogus Trademark Bullying | Techdirt Chris Dupres, another Techdirt regular, started a blog to cover news about Chia Networks and ChiaCoin called The Chia Plot. Last week, "the head of IP for the Chia Network," Belle Borovik (who appears to be a recent law school grad), sent Chia a legal nastygram, insisting that the site violated Chia's trademark. It has come to our attention that your EU-registered website has recently engaged in a series of privacy violations under the General Data Protection Regulation Act (the "GDPR") involving a Chia Network employee. trademark laws by using "The Chia Plot" as the name of his new web site about your company and Trademark law aside, the First Amendment protects Dupres's right to use your company's Filed Under: belle borovik, bram cohen, chia, chris dupres, cryptocurrency, gdpr, hard drives, paul levy, trademark, trademark bullying ./cache/www-techdirt-com-8880.html ./txt/www-techdirt-com-8880.txt