Phoenix New Times Files Suit Against Former Employee, Wants URLs

Who doesn’t want to get back at a former employer, especially if you left in an acrimonious way? But creating a lawsuit where they ask for $200,000 in payback doesn’t sound like the best way to go about it.

Now it’s unclear if that’s what happened here, but in a federal lawsuit filed by Phoenix New Times and its parent company Village Voice Media Holdings, the alternative weekly has accused a former employee of cybersquatting. The suit claims Ty Liebig, who worked for the paper for three months in 2008, purchased URLs relating to the paper’s yearly special “Best of Phoenix.”

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