there are laws against it and they do get enforced. Im just interested in hearing if anyone has had to invoke them with any success.
It's actually pretty easy to get a squatted domain released these days if you have a remotely viable claim.
When it gets tricky is situations like nissan.com -- it's owned by a guy with the last name of Nissan who runs a company called Nissan Computer, not by Nissan the auto group. It's an interesting legal situation.