1.7 million dollars the court wants to recover from the owner of the forum for the discussion of the developer

On May 21, a court in the Dniprovskiy district of Kiev ruled in favor of St Sophia Homes, according to which the owner of the forum, which brings together residents of one of the Kiev houses, must pay 14 million hryvnia (equivalent to 1.7 million dollars).

On the site "Riviera Riverside. Territory of Mayhem - Website of the residents of Raisy Okipnaya 18 "residents of the house exchanged views and discussed the problems of the house.

The essence of the claim was reduced to the fact that the forum does not legally use trademarks, and the domain itself is very similar to the domain of the developer. Also, according to the plaintiff, the forum does not include true information, because of which the sales of apartments in the building on ul. R. Okipnoy. Therefore, the plaintiff believes that all responsibility should be borne by the owner of the forum.
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The apartment owner of the domain name of the court seized. In the apartment he lives with his family, including two small children, who are a year and 3 months old.

This is not the first such case. Last year, one of the courts in the Odessa region sentenced individual residents of the village of Fontanka to compensate for moral damage on the basis of screenshots from the local Internet forum.

upd: Here are the details of the situation and the scheme of divorce from pseudo-OSMD.