It seems that the Rock Art Brewery had the nerve (great sarchasm here) to create a custom beer to celebrate their 10 years in existence called Vermonster Beer in honor of being based in Vermont. Well, the giant $1 Billion dollar corporation of Monster Energy Drinks thinks that their using “Vermonster” for the title of a beer is trademark infringement and that people might be confused between Monster Energy Drinks and Vermonster Beer. If you are confused, let me help you understand the difference.

Monster Energy Drinks suck. They taste like crap and aren’t good for you. I have tried a few when they stop by my work, usually resulting in one sip from their BLACK CAN and promptly dumping the rest down the drain. I wouldn’t waste it by pouring it outside in the grass as I don’t want to harm the environment.

Vermonster Beer is a “home brewed” type of beer. You can’t buy it in a convenience store or Walmart. It comes in a BOTTLE, not a can. It taste good (from what I’ve heard). Beer is good.

So there, confusion settled.

So, I wonder where this big corporation thinks that it is entitled to the term “Monster”. Are they going to sue the Addams family next? Of course, there are monsters in that show. Maybe they’ll feel threatened by Walmart and their using the term of monster in their halloween section. Maybe they will sue Pixar and Disney for using the term in “Monsters, Inc.”? That’ll be fun to watch! Talk about deeper pockets!

What gives them the right to tell a Vermont based beer brewery that they have to cease and desist using the name Monster in their product? Deep pockets. Yep, justice is still for sale in this country. The big guy with the deepest pockets can sue and take out the little guy for no reason.

Here is a great video by the owner of the Rock Art Brewery. He started this company by himself in his basement and has built his dream of owning a small business. Stop by their site and give them support and words of encouragement, they will need it.

While you’re at it, visit the Monster Energy Drink Contact Page and let them know what you think also. Pretty much I think they suck for doing this as I don’t know how they think they are entitled to a trademark on the name “Monster”.

Here are some more links about this issue, so if you own a blog, write up a post about this and help spread the word!

Monster Energy Drinks versus Rock Art Brewery

Monster Energy Drink Sucks the Life out of Small Business

Rock Art Brewery vs Corporate America

Monster Energy Drink – Corporate America Gone Bad

When Is A Monster A Bully? 

Monster Energy Drinks Side Effects 

Monster Energy Drink Attacks Vermont Beer 

Hey Monster Who’s the Noob Now 

Camel Piss (Monster Energy Drink) 

Monster Energy Drink Hates America 

The Monster Energy Drink Company is One Big NSFW

Don’t Feed the Monster

Monster Energy Drink vs Vermonster

This is just so wrong in so many ways, however it just shows what corporate greed and bullying can do in America. If this guy said his beer was the “Monster Energy Beer”, then I could say, yep he needs to do something. However to use the word monster in a name doesn’t automatically mean that people are going to confuse the two items.

Lend some support America to the American dream and help out the little guy by boycotting Monster Energy drinks! I’m sure you won’t regret it and it might save your life and help the environment as their drinks taste like crap anyways!

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I’m not sure what is going on with You Tube, or why You Tube is down again, other than I know there have been a lot of severe storms in the Midwest in the last couple of days. I’m guessing something has been damaged from those storms and it has taken down You Tube.

Or, maybe someone was just asking “Hey, what’s this button do?”.

The bad part about You Tube being down is the fact that if you use You Tube videos on your site, especially the embedded YOu Tube videos, they are not showing now either.

How do I know this? My recent post on Asia’h Epperson used several videos from You Tube and they aren’t showing up now.

Only time will tell what is going on and we’ll see what happens!

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This E-stamp license would decrease the amount of spam email that is being sent around the world on a daily basis, clogging up servers and filling your email box with junk.

It is reported that the Anti-Spam companies, such as Norton’s and others are fighting this legislation as it would make spam-blocking software obsolete.

People would purchase this E-stamp, register their email account into a federal database, and then be allowed to use their email systems. This would also allow for spammers to be caught more easily as they would get flagged for sending the millions of spam emails.

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