It was nearly 10 years ago when the ‘Evil Speedo Corporation’ sued me in the Australian High Court.
The whole thing made the Sydney Morning Herald – click here for the article in the paper.
There was no way possible I could afford to defend myself, at court the Evil Speedo Corporation had five lawyers, but I did email the judge and argue that:
- I wasn’t living in Australia at the time, and the ‘business’ was not based in anyway in Australia, so I’m not sure how an Australian Court could make such a ruling.
- My use of the word ‘speedo’ was generic for male swim briefs. My example is that I use the term “Speedo brand speedos”. For example: jacuzzi, chapstick, dumpster, jetski, bubblewrap.
Because I didn’t have the financial resources to defend myself, the ‘Evil Speedo Corporation’ won, but I only lost a domain name. I’m sure it cost them a fortune in legal fees.
One of the funny things that happened during that time was they had hired private investigators to find ‘Dave Evans’ and they knocked on the door of a guy in Sydney. Turns out, that Dave Evans is gay (maybe they stalked his social media), he loves speedos, but he didn’t know about my websites. He emailed me telling me about the knock on his door and he became a member.
Over the years they occasionally hassle me and I have to change domain names. I’d like to think I’m promoting their products and instead of the legal fees they have been wasting, they should pay me to mention their products over say AussieBum speedos or ADIDAS speedos.
I’m not sure why I got on to that little story but someone sent me through this video of some body surfing athletes that Speedo does sponsor.
I think it is great that they are promoting wearing speedos. Do you wear speedos when body surfing? I know I do.
I’ve even worn a speedo surfing. It was with a member and yes… we did have speedo sex on his car afterwards. Members can read about that experience by clicking here.
For ages I haven’t been happy with the name SwimmerBoyz.com for my main site and I’ve finally pulled the trigger and changed it to SpeedoFetish.com.
This is a site that I first started back in 2001 when I was still in high school and it has evolved from a free site to just put up my favourite speedo photos for my own viewing. The gallery (which is still available) ended up being 6,500 sorted/searchable photos.
I called the site SpeedoBoys.com.
From there, I started putting up some of the early speedo movies – there weren’t many and the quality wasn’t great but it was a huge success and people loved them. Problem was, I received a 1 month bandwidth bill for $800!!! So that is when I had to start making it a members site to cover that cost.
The site was so popular that I eventually repaid the $800 server fee and I kept building the site. This got the attention of the Evil Speedo Corporation who took the SpeedoBoys.com domain name off me. So I renamed the site SpeedoBoyz.com. A few years went by and they then took me to court in Australia. I even made the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald!!! Obviously I couldn’t afford to defend against this (I was in college driving a $300 car and living with my parents). Speedo won in court because I not only couldn’t afford to defend the case, but also because I didn’t want my anonymity exposed – I’m still in the closet to my family.
One of the unintended consequences of the Evil Speedo Corporation trying to sue me was the mainstream publicity. During that time I had 10 times more members!!!
That is when I renamed the site SwimmerBoyz.com which has never really sat well with me since it isn’t really about swimmers or boyz at all, it is about guys (over 18yo) who like speedos in a ‘naughty’ way.
I still have a bunch of work to do rebranding some things as well as updating some links and stuff but I’m excited to move forward with the new name which I think describes the site much better. Otherwise things continue as per usual, there will be another 80 minutes of speedo movies added this week alone!!!
OK, I should get back to the business of running SpeedoFetish.com.
Tomorrow I will be sharing with you guys a story that I just published on SpeedoFetish.com about a Grindr hookup and there is a speedo selfie of mine….. here is a photo taken at the same time, this was last year when I was in Colorado for the Lake Powell trip and it was taken in Kip’s sisters hottub.
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