Slipknot have sued a cyber-squatter they declare is utilizing the ‘slipknot.com’ area in an effort to reclaim the positioning after 24 years.
As reported by Billboard, the band filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday (October 15) during which they allege an nameless particular person has been in command of the URL since 2001 and has been utilizing it to promote counterfeit merchandise for the band.
The band declare that they’ve been unable to make use of the area within the intervening years and have as an alternative hosted their on-line retailer at slipknot1.com.
Slipknot’s lawyer Craig Reilly has mentioned: “The area identify was registered in an effort to revenue off of plaintiff’s goodwill and to trick unsuspecting guests – underneath the impression they’re visiting a web site owned, operated or affiliated with plaintiff – into clicking on net searches and different sponsored hyperlinks.”
“A fan of plaintiff or somebody who in any other case needed to buy approved Slipknot merchandise would undoubtedly go to the slipknot.com web site assuming it belonged to plaintiff after which buy the slipknot merchandise linked to on the positioning, inflicting damages to plaintiff,” Reilly added.
The swimsuit has been filed underneath the Anti-Cybersquatting Shopper Safety Act 1999, and the band are in search of possession of the positioning, in addition to unspecified damages.
Billboard be aware that the cyber-squatter stays nameless, however they do personal a put up workplace field within the Cayman Islands.
Elsewhere, new Slipknot drummer Eloy Casagrande just lately revealed that the band are engaged on new music. “We’re cooking, we’re performing some new music, for certain,” he mentioned.
The band have but to launch any new materials since 2022’s ‘The Finish So Far’, although they teased a brand new track ‘Lengthy Might You Die’, recorded shortly after Casagrande joined in early 2024. Nothing has come out of that tease thus far.
In Might, guitarist Jim Root mentioned that he had accomplished “six preparations” for a brand new album, regardless of beforehand claiming that he had “almost zero inspiration”.
Chatting with NME again in December, percussionist and general band mastermind Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan gave us an replace on ‘Look Outdoors Your Window’, the long-awaited misplaced album from Slipknot. The album had been anticipated to reach someday this 12 months.
In different information, the band launched a twenty fifth anniversary reissue of their self-titled debut album in September, which included beforehand unheard demos, new paintings and unseen photos from the band’s archives.
They’re additionally reportedly promoting their music catalogue for $120million to HarbourView Fairness Companions, a deal that may cowl possession rights to their publishing and grasp recording royalties, and the home in Iowa they and their followers destroyed within the video for ‘Duality’ goes up for public sale.
