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.
I’m sure you have seen the banners around this blog as well as heard me talk about SwimmerBoyz.com, so what is SwimmerBoyz.com?
SwimmerBoyz.com was the first ever site I created, originally it was SpeedoBoyz.com but I was sued by the Evil Speedo Corporation (it made the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald and the London Times which turned out to be awesome for business). I started SwimmerBoyz.com when I was a teenager back in March 2001!!!! Holy cow time flies.
The started as just my collection of speedo photos. I had some naughty photos of myself which I wanted to share ‘privately’ and having the site seemed like a good idea.
Pretty quickly it turned in 6,500 full sorted photos
These photos still makes up the backbone of the photo archives – and yes, those photos of me are still in there but you’ll have to dig to find them.
Things were moving pretty quick with the internet and movies were slowly becoming affordable so I started gathering a movies archive. At this stage the site was still 100% free. After making the movies archive public I got a server bill for $800 which still being in high school I couldn’t afford and not really the thing I could ask my parents for, just imagine that conversation:
Mum, Dad, can I have $800 to pay for all the speedo movies
random people have watched on my speedo fetish website?
That is when I had to figure out how to pay for the downloads. It took me a while but I managed to keep the site online and figure out a model where it kind of broke even.
From there, things just kept getting bigger, and bigger and bigger.
Now the site has the following stats:
135 gigabytes of movies
9,800 photos (probably 50 of those are of me)
553 active members (as of just now)
Most importantly, I’m still really proud of SwimmerBoyz.com. Last night Kip and I got home after partying and we were both pretty horny but a little sore from the pounding we’ve been giving each other so I plugged my laptop into Kip’s 60″ TV, loaded up SwimmerBoyz.com and watched that movie of two guys in AussieBums fucking poolside.
It is my personal speedo movie collection, it just
happens that I get to share it with other people.
A couple of other things I love about the site are:
I’ve never had a pop-up ad on it
The download speeds are awesome so the movies looked fantastic on the big screen TV.
Now SwimmerBoyz.com members have free access to the blog members area.
As you can tell, I’m pretty happy with SwimmerBoyz.com, I can’t imagine the hours I’ve put into it over the years but I love it and the feedback I get from members seems to be pretty awesome as well.
Please, head over and check it out.
If you’d like to join, know that your membership mostly goes to keeping it up to date and running awesome and not to my Rolls Royce collection.
Looks like the Evil Speedo Corporation has their speedos in a bunch over my websites again.
They have tried to close my sites for years and even took me to the High Court of Australia way back. My argument was and still is that ‘speedo’ has become a generic term. Just like aspirin, heroin, dry ice, app, zip code, adrenalin, bubble wrap, dumpster, jet ski, super heros. I also argue that if anything I am promoting their product.
That is actually all. So not that big a deal. I’ll probably add some new domains next week so that search engines will find me a little easier.
In the mean time, I really appreciate everyone’s support and the best way to show that is to join my site SwimmerBoyz.com (was SpeedoBoyz.com until the Evil Speedo Corporation took that away).
Well head on over to SwimmerBoyz.com. A bunch of blog readers are members and your support is greatly appreciated and it allows me to keep this blog running and keeping it free.
If you want to see some pics of me out and about go to the site and click on the “100% Bi-Owned and Operated” link at the top of the page.
And you can download over 50 hours of movies for just $14.95!!!!
The movies section of SwimmerBoyz.com is what people really join for. Watching full length hardcore speedo movies is what everyone wants right? And they aren’t shitty YouTube quality movies – these are full length, good quality movies that you can save to your computer and watch any time you want.
Joining via PayPal is now available for the first time.
