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What do JC Penney and IMDB have in common?

by andy484 Mar 30, 2006 10:13AM PST

I'm sure many of you were hoping to see a funny punchline, but it's a very matter-of-fact question. I stumbled across jcpenney.imdb.com today. It appears to be no different than the normal imdb.com page, and there's nothing about JC Penney on jcpenney.imdb.com.

I tried other random names... hechts.imdb.com, mpaa.imdb.com, t-bone.imdb.com... but they all erred out. What gives?

(JC Penney is a US based department store, btw. I live on the east coast - not sure if it's regional, nor am I sure the jcpenney here is connected to the dept store... though I can't imagine what else jcpenney would refer to)

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Weird
by adkinsjm Mar 30, 2006 12:11PM PST

URL works out here in Utah, plus in Germany. I tested that using Tor.

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hey
by Dirty Pirate Mar 30, 2006 12:56PM PST

It works in ireland to. Wonder why a US departmet store is hooked up to it.

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There is more to this...but it might be a stretch....
by alicial30 Mar 31, 2006 9:40AM PST

Did you try searching for jcpenney in IMDB? It comes up with this list:
http://jcpenney.imdb.com/company/co0094627/

They were a commercial sponsor for the 75th and 76th Academy Awards, Touched by an Angel, and provided clothes for two other shows.

Digging a little deeper, there is a lawsuit (!!!) involving a photographer who took pictures of Elizabeth Taylor. Bear with me here....

JC Penney sells the perfume she endorses, called Passion, and I'm guessing they used the same pictures of Liz. A Swedish university allegedly used those same pictures without written consent on their own website, and the photographer alleges ''people who visited J.C. Penney's web site could, through a series of links through the Penney and IMDG sites, eventually reach the Swedish site, referred to as 'SUNET.'''

Could this be the reason? It doesn't exactly make sense to me, but you can read the info on the lawsuit for yourself:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/property00/metatags/Linking1.html

I really like the part where the defendants say that the photographer's suit is based on a theory that could ''would destroy the Internet as a means of worldwide communication''.

Liz Taylor.
Passion.
World domination.

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by nineteenseventy9 Apr 2, 2006 9:41AM PDT
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sorry forgot something...
by nineteenseventy9 Apr 2, 2006 9:43AM PDT
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(NT) (NT) works out here in singapore too
by ph3Ar Apr 4, 2006 12:41AM PDT
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