Can’t you see, you’re not making Christianity better, you’re just making metal worse.
Publicity stunt. The home schooled red state Skeeters who are this band’s fan base will flood GoFundMe with their beer money.
Conservatism. Grifting grifters grifting grifting grifters.
It’s a grift grifting grift for grifting grifting grifts.
Give send go, gofundme is for take populists gsg is pretty specifically conservative.
Won’t someone please think of the white, Christian men?
The most persecuted of all.
Christian metal? For good reason too. Lame crap.
To prove their point, included in the filing is an email from a person who spent $500 on top-tier tickets to a Demon Hunter concert in Albany, thinking they were purchasing admission to a KPop Demon Hunters event for their children, aged five and six.
I kind of get it. It’s not like the movie has nothing to do with music.
Imagine spending $500 on something and not, idk looking at the fucking promo picture. Also, Demon Hunter is objectively better than Huntr/x.
Also, Demon Hunter is objectively better than Hunter/x
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Christian Metal band
I respect your opinion, but I doubt its accuracy.
There are Christian metal bands whose music stands in its own. As I Lay Dying, The Crimson Armada, The Word Alive, The Chariot are the first few that come to mind.
I still can’t get over the fact that this shit-tier band even tries to sell $500 tickets!
Checked them out. Calling them metal is very generous.
Good. I hope it goes to trial, and they show that the monopoly Google is unfairly fucking with search results, as we all know they do, and some sort of regulation eventually comes from it.
Please elaborate on how Google is changing the search rankings. I’ve worked with Google SEO for decades and I’ve never seen or heard of this. I’ve only seen people try to outsmart the system, and then years later are blacklisted for doing shady stuff. Nothing in the article even mentioned Google.
But I’ve never heard of Google manually changing rankings. So you’re saying there’s a conspiracy to rank a Christian metal band from 20 years ago lower than a newly released movie/series with a similar name. Which just happens to be the most watched movie on Netflix.
The system seems to be working exactly as intended. Fresh original relevant content to the top rankings.
Why would someone expect the opposite? Why do you think Google is involved at all?
mogged? is that what mogged means? i thought it involved the butt.
It certainly can
If it doesn’t, I don’t want to speak your dialect
Oddly enough it was originally a millennial slang term from the aughts
The fuck were we meaning back then?
It’s a shortened version of AMOG (alpha male of group) from pickup artist communities, which unfortunately I think has filtered through to the youths of today via shitbag redpill influencers.
The hell it does. It means to do a booty dance in a picture at someone who is oblivious in the picture well enough that you are awarded points
Yes and the definition of meme is a picture with text on it
well i’m glad we are in agreement loudly then!
Turn the other cheek you Hippocrate fuck faces.
I don’t think Hippocrates is the man to invoke here, unless they’re doing faith healing then of course ‘do no harm’ comes into play
Thank god you said something, I was about to google that shit. I wasn’t sure if it was Triangleman or ‘Do no harm/Drink this stuff I found’ guy.
They cant, for they have no cheeks to turn.
Poser metal band 1, the Lord 0.They’re pretty legit.
They’re generic dad rock with a bible theme. It’s just Staind that goes to church.
I regret a lot of my musical choices from that stage of my life but Demon Hunter is not one of them.
Five Iron Frenzy is another good one.
…idk fellas, ya might want to just leave this one to the Satanists. Stick with the Gregorian chanting and call it a day. Also stop fucking altar boys.
Why sue? Just flip their desks and throw them out of the building. /s
Honestly, no one was searching for this trash band before. I guarantee that this has at the least given them more exposure. This lawsuit is entirely performative (it’s needed to maintain trademark).
I have no love for netflix or it’s terrible movie, but if it hurts some shitty christian band I have a real hard time being upset.
The thing is a trademark can’t trademark something “generic”.
Like you can’t trademark “chocolate dreams” ans a name for a band… and the go after some one that uses the phrase “chocolate dreams” for an unrelated movie.
Because no one is likely to confuse the band for the movie.
Did you read the article? They are now doing a live tour of KPop Demon Hunter" and they have at least one example of there being confusion in the market. AEG and Netflix could have promoted the tour as HUNTR/X: KPop Demon Hunters or something to avoid this. I suspect there will be a settlement as just because there was no confusion when it was just a movie doesn’t mean they can go into live concerts with the same name.
No. I didn’t because I have better things to do.
But no, they still haven’t shown trademark infringement. You’re really going to tell me that the metal band lost measurable business because some idiot on the internment couldn’t tell the difference between a kpop musical on Netflix and their metal band.
all because they were either to cheap to pay for SEO or so crappy that paying for SEO still doesn’t matter. (Bet: the settlement includes SEO.)
Sorry. No. That’s not trademark infringement. It’d be like McDonald’s Plumbing suing McDonald’s burgers.
Guess what- these things happen, and they’d have to show that that the decision was intentional and malicious, when the people making the decision probably didn’t even know the metal band existed. That’s not going to happen.
Again, please read the article. The more apt comparison would be if McDonald’s Plumbing started selling and marketing burgers. This is a pretty straightforward case and will likely be settled for a sum that can be found in Netflix’s/AEG’s couch cushions. Also, “maliciousness” is not a factor in determining trademark infringement.
No it wouldn’t.
Again. Please try and understand what I’m saying.
The differences in other branding are sufficient that no one looking at the webpages or whatever they clicked on would be confused. There’s not a likely chance that someone is going to confuse Demon Hunter the Metal Band with KPop Demon Hunter the Anime. And even if they did click the wrong link there’s no real harm. All it really means is that whoever took the wrong link hop needs to work on their google-foo.
I mean. really. look at the difference in branding:
Vs:
The concept of “Demon Hunter” as a thing is something that’s common enough that it’s going to bump into other brands. It’s not like they went after the 2005 movie “Demon Hunter”
and while things may have fallen through the cracks, but when you apply for a trademark the USPTO searches their database to verify that there’s nothing already trademarked that you might be infringing on. given that netflix has a trademark, that search happened in some form and they decided it was acceptable.
Generic is not what you think. You’re trying to make the case that all words in the dictionary are generic. I’m sorry you’re just wrong about this.
First off there’s a reason I put it in quotes.
And second, that wasn’t what I was arguing. Nice straw man.
Third, you can’t trademark something after people who have similar names just because they have similar names.
Demon hunter is a metal band.
It’s very unlikely that they lost business because someone wandered into an anime called “Kpop Demon Hunter”… and even if they did, it wasn’t named to trade on the metal band’s name.
