BlockShopper.Com Buckles Under Lawyer's "Trademark" Lawsuit

• Nothing but bad kharma for these guys. Die slow.

• "Mike Magnuson" you truly are worthless. The only ignorance is your mother's for not having had that abortion - hopefully someone will correct her mistake. You can take your threats and shove them up your partner's butt.

• A couple of points of fact. 1) Eddie Weinhaus and Brian Timpone BEAT Jones Day by judge's ruling months before this article was written. This was reported widely (even in the Post Dispatch) and of course is public record. 2) The settlement can more accurately be described as Jones Day begging to make their ridiculous claim against BlockShopper go away because it hurt Jones Day more than BlockShopper - not a "buckling" by BlockShopper as the author mistakenly suggests. As for the commenters who suggest that the court records are private information, your ignorance knows no bounds. Any future legislation that restricts hateful commenting will allow your ignorance to go on unpublished. The hateful people who encourage a concerted and fraudulent effort to harm a business are probably subject to "remedial action" - giving you an opportunity to learn a lesson.

• Blockshopper won't remove your name, even if you are asking for security reasons. They will ask you to send MORE personal data like court records etc. As if they can be trusted with that considering their lack of ethics! The only way to stop them is to start writing to your legislators and advertisers!! WRITE WRITE WRITE and COMPLAIN LOUDLY!!

• Hello everyone I don't care so much about Jones Day i care about ME Just recently I have discovered that this BS company is putting my name and address online without any authorization, now anyone with google can find my name from my address and vice versa. i have contacted them to remove the info but they declined forcing me to move on to the next step ie file an official complaint. Anyone had this problem too?

• Here's another idea ... click on their advertiser's banners as many times as you have time for... supposedly, some only pay based on number of clicks.... and if they pay with no results... end of story !

• TO Everyone - in the future, when you blog about Blockshopper.com...lets's be sure to include these names... Brian Timpone, Chicago Ed Weinhaus, St. Louis Timothy Landon, Evanston so that they will appear on Google more often...and if realtors and advertisers google their names before they fork over some dollars... they may RE-think their game plan ! Game on, Fellas !!!!

• Brian Timpone and Ed Weinhaus are a 2-man operation that formed Blockshoper.com, funded by Timothy Landon, former Chgo Tribune exec. These people have absolutely NO regard for peoples' lives (or putting them AT RISK). They print whatever they can find on other sites, and will NOT delete it, if you request it. They have already been sued by a huge law firm...and others are talking 'class suit'. Advertisers and realtors should do their due dilligence before spending money to fund these lowlifes. that is all !!

• Blockshopper needs to be put out of business. They are tormenting innocent victims out there with their cyber staulking! It's abusive that if anyone just googles your name in the google search engine that your personal address pops up. Other cites remove your address if you ask them to, not this bunch of quacks at Blockshopper! Enraged Mark

• We run a similar site, though it's more about historic information than every little real estate deal. But, similar "public record" information with a light on it. Click on an address, and you can see who lives/lived there. Sometimes, they still do live there. And, we get requests from people all the time to remove links to their addresses. For security reasons, primarily. If people are not being a$$holes, e.g., sending their laywers first, we remove them. We drag our feet if they act up. But, in the end, what do we care about a couple of links in an ocean of links. Based on the facts as I read them, these guys at blockshopper cut off their nose to spite their face. Six figure legal fees rather than remove a couple of nonsense links on two stinking posts about some nothing transactions in Lincoln Park? It is perfectly reasonable for a person to not want their name and other personal information put out in a way they don't control. So, give these local lawyers and their families a break. If you want to make a federal case about people in Illinois, go investigate corruption in city, county and state government.

• BlockShopper make a lot of people mad. I get calls all the time from angry consumers wondering who gave out their private information. As a Realtor, I've been accused more than once! We know this home sale information is public record, but it's fairly hard to find -- and we like it that way!

• Blockshopper should have made a counter-offer on the settlement, specifying that they would willingly henceforth refer to Jones Day as "those assclowns" in all links.

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