LawMeme: Ninth Circuit Upholds Injunction Barring Access to a Website
Creative Computing, Inc. v. Getloaded.com pits two trucker-oriented websites against each other. Creative Computing’s Truckstop.com is an online marketplace that helps truckers and shippers link up with each other. It was the first such and quickly became wildly popular. Getloaded.com, is, if Judge Kleinfeld’s opinion is to be believed, a low-down rip-off, built on a systematic policy of fraud and dirty tricks. Getloaded hired away employees from Creative and had them bring source code and customer lists with them; it also hacked into Creative’s servers (Creative was using an unpatched Microsoft system, tsk tsk) and also stole the password of a Creative customer in order to get a closer look at the site’s functionality.
Creative Computing, Inc. v. Getloaded.com (9th Cir., Oct. 15, 2004.)
