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BANGKOK:
The Internet company Yahoo! has moved to close down a
Thai-owned portal for men, named Yoohhoo, which features
pictures of scantily clad women and advice on sex
problems.
The US-based Yahoo
has filed a suit claiming the Thai site’s name is too
much like its own and can confuse. Net surfers.
Yoohhoo,com
webmaster Chatchai Thumprasreat, who was warned off by
Yahoo’s lawyers, defended his site. “I told the
lawyer that I had no intention of duplicating Yahoo’s
name. Actually we have different names, it is pronounced
differently and has different fonts”, he said.
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