My guess is corporate espionage. For them to get an injunction like this, they probably paid members of the engineering team to give them proprietary information.
They probably just want to tell their employees that sharing "trade secrets" won't be tolerated. Nothing better for that than a lawsuit with ridiculous amounts of money. It might fail but it sends a strong message.
Not that I don't despise this kind of practices...
I feel like the most interesting part of this is the effort to stop Aurora from using their tech. Anyone know if there is legal precedent to doing that from a civil suit?
I don't think @dang will pin the above comment, but this needs to be higher here as the reply includes that they received a legal order. This is maligning the company unjustly.
> a final injunction which allowed Nissan Computer Corporation to maintain control of the domains Nissan.com and Nissan.net so long as it neither advertised nor mentioned/made disparaging comments about Nissan Motor.
First thing I see on nissan.com is a massive "Nissan's motor lawsuite against us" with crossed Nissan logos and "it could happen to you too", then a massive ad below this. Doesn't Nissan have a case that not only he doesn't respect his side of the bargain but he's obviously using Nissan's popularity for his own benefit?
I've been too focused on the tech that I forgot about the legal part of this. Is this why they've all given wishy-washy responses that take no responsibility and seemingly don't even admit there's a problem? Sounds like they expect massive legal recourse and have no real choice but to listen to their lawyers who are telling them to admit no guilt.
Hm, if the lawsuit is going to drive more customers to them, wouldn't it make more sense to also include an injunction requiring them to comply with GDPR-like laws? That would seem to head of the potential of further data loss.
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