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Uploaded by on May 26, 2011

The snake man is Raymond Hoser. He also owns Snakebusters, Australia's BEST reptiles shows, displays and educational parties for kids and adults. Based in Melbourne, Victoria imitators across Australia have been trading on the snake man and his company's reputation to bootleg and infringe his trademarks in order to steal customers. This trademark infringement has included the highly illegal activity of taking out Google "adwords" to divert Snakeman's clients to their own inexperienced reptile handling enterprises. The adwords are triggered when the computer uses does a search for the trademark, like "snake man" or "snake buster" and instead finds themselves diverted to the bootlegger's trademark breach website. It is the equivalent of doing a search for "Rolls Royce" and being sent to "beaten up car wreck". Just this week, a serial trademark bootlegger had over 800 webpages removed from the web, all of which carried "backlinks" to his own bootlegger webpage, all of which had been erected for the sole purpose of usurping the (real) Snakeman's top position using SEO on search engine results from "Google" and the like. The message is clear, business and trademark owners need to be vigilant in protecting their IP, because there is no shortage of thieves who will unlawfully attempt to steal their clients.

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