The Federal Court of Australia has ordered a central coast blogger to shut down a number of salacious and pornographic websites because they featured Speedo swimming costumes and domain names using the company's trademark.
The swimwear giant took blogger Dave Evans to court, claiming that his websites amounted to trademark infringement and threatened the company's "valuable reputation and goodwill associated with the name and trademark 'Speedo'".
Mr Evans registered domain names containing the word "Speedo". Some of these sites featured images of men wearing Speedo briefs, as well as pornographic images, which Speedo claimed were offensive.
Mr Evans, known online as the "Bisexual Blogger" and "aussiespeedoguy", had set up paid subscription services for material on some of the sites and linked to other web pages.
He refused to attend the civil case and the matter was heard today in his absence.
Federal Court Justice Geoffrey Flick ordered that Mr Evans shut down the offending websites and transfer the domain names to Speedo.
It also ordered that he refrain from registering any new domain name using the Speedo trademark, or operate any website that featured Speedo swimwear.
He was also ordered to pay the swimwear company's legal costs. The court ordered that, if Mr Evans refused to shut down his websites, he would be liable for substantial damages to the company.
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