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Originally Posted by deuceblocker
Boyd was involved in more shady dealings, using site names similar to twoplustwo and got sued.
Boyd is living proof that intelligence is something completely distinct from judgement. Two absolutely different places in the brain.
You're intelligent enough to build the first online poker site, but you lack the judgement to run it in a way that scales up and maximizes what it's actually worth. Even his proposed bailout deal (that would've made the players whole) could've been worked to his advantage, keep some minor equity stake and let the grown-ups run it... and yeah, it then becomes what Stars is now and now, you're rich.
His domain thing, same deal. He was smart enough to realize the power of decent .com domain names during the tail-end of the "domaining" game, but lacked the judgement to stay away from blatant TM infringing domains and ****ed around with someone who realized that on a long timeline, he was absolutely +ev in tournament poker, would eventually bink something decent and that would be an easy judgement to enforce (wait for him to run deep, send down your lawyer with a writ of garnishment to the cage and get his winnings before they even pay him out).
2+2 Publishing vs Boyd is actually a fairly important case in that niche. Very very very few victims of TM infringement take the time to run down a pissant domainer and smash them in court. They usually get a letter from a lawyer and hand it over, or its cheaper to UDRP. Now, victims can cite that case and make them settle for damages.