Thursday, January 16, 2014

Kayne West E-Currency Killer

In the battle between Kanye West and some supposed-anonymous internet geeks, Kayne has won, reports HuffPo.

On Tuesday, West's lawyers filed a lawsuit against the anonymous founders of the new digital currency Coinye, which was apparently enough to convince the coders to back down from their several days-long fight.


They also posted this image to their website:



The lawsuit included a sampling of tweets from confused fans who actually believed Kanye invented the currency.

"With each day that passes, Mr. West's reputation is irreparably harmed by the continued use of the COINYE WEST, COINYE and/or COYE marks in connection with Defendants' goods and services," the lawsuit stated.

Last week, West’s lawyers filed a cease and desist letter over the currency, which is modeled after Bitcoin and named after the hip hop artist.

In response, the currency's founders changed the URL of their website from coinyewest.com to coinyeco.in. They also changed the image on the coin from a picture of Kanye to a picture of Kanye looking like a fish.





6 comments:

  1. "They also changed the image on the coin from a picture of Kanye to a picture of Kanye looking like a fish."

    lol....love the Southpark reference to Kanye being a "gayfish" at the end. Funny!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64ngE35xjTk

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  2. Do you like fish sticks? LOL

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  3. Stupid coin anyway. Trying to copy doge isn't going to work. These people need to innovate not just make a hundred copies of a coin that innovates.

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  4. Should Trey Parker and Matt Stone sue for the theft of their joke ?

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    1. Why would they do that? They've already profited by the IP and sold their rights/ownership to the Comedy Channel.

      Did you mean to ask if the Comedy Channel should sue anyone?

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