A federal judge ordered the operators of a Web porn site to quit using Teen magazine in its Web address, in one of the earliest cases to arise since the passage of a federal law banning cybersquatting.
The Associated Press says Teen staffers found the porn site the last week in December and were hearing from puzzled girls soon thereafter. "I was horrified," says magazine president Lynn Lehmkuhl. "It was really hardcore. Not even Playboy. It was really, really creepy."
The porn site in question is owned by Blue Gravity Communications. The company and its owner Thomas Krwaecz III were ordered Jan. 6 to stop using Teen in its Web address, www.teenmagazine.com. A click on that address today brings a Web surfer to Teen's Web site.
"Our magazine is geared to teen girls, and when they find pornography instead, you can well understand why not only our client would be upset, but our readers would be upset," Teen attorney David Jacobs told the court.
The judge also ordered unspecified monetary damages against Blue Gravity.
