So, what happens to all of those Gothic Lolitas ?

I've also heard of someone just messing with the contrast or exposure to get a spot to show up before the image was even taken when looking for low levels of activity.

If the U.S. corporations keep getting so carried away like this (in addition to continually being granted absurdly broad patents and other IP rights), what incentive is there for other countries to continue to allow the U.S. dominated IP system to continue ?

Add in the weakening dollar, the rise of other coalitions like the EU, and the industrial and financial rise of other countries like China and Russia (plus Putin's belligerent attitude towards U.S. dominance). If they feel that the system is too far stacked against them, what keeps them from a mass defection from recognizing these absurdly broad territory grabs ?

I'm surprised at how lucky the U.S. has been in this regard. We really shouldn't take this too much for granted here.

It doesn't surprise me that Turbosquid managed to attract this sort of trouble after they managed to infuriate many CG artists. They had a trolls selling and taking credit for car models which had been posted for free by their real authors on other sites. When the original artist complained, they claimed that they were ignored or brushed off by TurboSquid. I heard that many of them were looking at a variety of other methods of dealing with the problem. It wouldn't surprise me if this is how the car companies manged to get wind of their site.

As an aside, I think that the car companies would be surprised to learn how little of their IP was registered in the old days. People have gone looking through the granted patents and found almost nothing granted to Ford in regards to whole body design before a few decades ago.

I notice that the patent or trademark registration numbers never seem to get mentioned when the car companies try this sort of thing.

I know that video game dev houses are thoroughly annoyed at the car companies. Many have to use fictitious cars. The car companies try to charge them if they happen to have any of their vehicles in a game( this is if they even allow them at all). Most car companies also refuse to allow serious damage modeling. On newer cars they either only allow slight scuffing or else charge through the nose for anything even slightly beyond that).