Monday, August 22, 2011
Amy Winehouse’s Dad Deals With Domain Squatter In Less-Than-Ideal Fashion
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Remember that addiction treatment foundation Amy Winehouse’s dad was going to set up? It’s stalled because someone’s squatting on the mostobvious (if overly long) domain name. Not even lawyers and Parliament support can wrench it back yet; in fact, things are so serious thatMitch Winehouse is… returning people’s donations. The reason, he said over Twitter, is because he doesn’t have a bank account in thefoundation’s name–something that, as Billboard points out, he didn’t bother explaining and that his representatives aren’t explaining either. Then there’s this:
"We all have to bombard the tabloids websites to put pressure on this dick head who stole our foundation name."
Name-calling and threats of denial-of-service attacks? How nice. Never mind that “bombarding” the websites, if done by drive-by readers oftweets, will probably just drive up pageviews and stoke the gossip machine even more. We’re still stuck on the returning of donations–notto mention the royalty cut from Winehouse’s duet with Tony Bennett, which was supposed to go the floundering foundation. It’s fair that Mitch Winehouse doesn’t want to look fraudulent by keeping money for something that isn’t 100% settled yet–charity scams are real and numerous, and Winehouse isn’t among them. But if someone’s sending back your donations, would you really be inclined to donate again once things are settled? Even if you think Winehouse’s being organized about this–we’re not suggesting he isn’t, mind you–it’s just human nature not to expend the effort again. Every part of this situation, in short, is unfortunate. If we hear anything further, we’ll let you know.
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