Contemporary Business Law 8th Edition by Henry Cheeseman

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Ethics BluePeace.org is a new environmental group that has decided that expounding its environmental causes over the Internet is the best and most efficient way to spend its time and money to advance its environmental causes. To draw attention to its websites, BluePeace.org comes up with catchy Internet domain names. One is http://macyswearus.org, another is http://exxonvaldezesseals.org, and another ishttp://generalmotorscrashesdummies.org.The http://macyswearus.org website first shows beautiful women dressed in mink fur coats sold by Macy's Department Stores and then goes into graphic photos of minks being slaughtered and skinned and made into the coats. Thehttp://exxonvaldezesseals.org website first shows a beautiful, pristine bay in Alaska, with the Exxon Valdez oil tanker quietly sailing through the waters, and then it shows photos of the ship breaking open and spewing forth oil and then seals who are gooed with oil, suffocating and dying on the shoreline. The websitehttp://generalmotorscrashesdummies.org shows a General Motors automobile involved in normal crash tests with dummies followed by photographs of automobile accident scenes where people and children lay bleeding and dying after an accident involving General Motors automobiles. Macy's Department Stores, the Exxon Oil Company, and the General Motors Corporation sue BluePeace.org for violating the federal Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA).
1. What does the ACPA prohibit? What must be shown to find a violation of the ACPA?
2. Did BluePeace.org acted unethically in this case?
3. Who wins this case and why?