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Besides turning to arbitrators and the courts to stop so-called cybersquatters from abusing their names on the Internet, companies sometimes pay big money to buy back such domain names. Krawczyk, however, blasted the suggestion that the poets were looking for a fast buck. As a matter of pride, we're refusing to give it up," she said. We refuse to be deprived of what we consider is our property." Krawczyk said that Google had not proposed a financial settlement. "Their lawyer told me that his client had no intention of paying for something which belonged to him," she claimed. It was not immediately possible to contact Google's Polish lawyers on Friday. They decided to buy the rights to the domain name in order to raise the profile of GMAiL, which publicises the works of young unknowns who have not yet found a conventional editor. Google has also faced problems after failing to be the first one to register local versions of its domain name in Britain and Germany.
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