The site was originally set up by Morel’s company, Popsmear, to
advertise postcards. In June 2000, Popsmear sold its assets to
1800Postcards. 1800Postcards claims that Morel then accessed the
site and changed the password so that 1800Postcards could no longer
access the site. It alleges that Morel was able to do this because
he had retained personal ownership of the domain name when the web
site was sold.
The judge was satisfied that these arguments were sufficiently
well-grounded to justify preventing Morel from accessing the site
until the case is fully decided.
