Had to share
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Topic: Had to share
Posted By: Tegwin
Subject: Had to share
Date Posted: 21 January 2004 at 12:39pm
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Just had to share this. I saw some information on this in the news on
TV microsoft wants to sue this guy, they offered him US$10 for
the name. Apparently its a breach of copyright http://www.mikerowesoft.com - www.mikerowesoft.com ------------- If you dont want my peaches, dont shake my tree |
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Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 21 January 2004 at 12:52pm
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copyright? hell no.. ok, the name is pronounced almost like microsoft, but hell..
and 10USD? are they taking him for an idiot? oh my god.. |
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 21 January 2004 at 12:56pm
LOL are they going to sue him just for the domain name or his real name aswell
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Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 21 January 2004 at 1:38pm
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so did someone heard of that MikeRowe Soft guy recently??? http://www.mikerowesoft.com/ - http://www.mikerowesoft.com http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/001296.html - http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/001296 .html ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss"> 
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Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 21 January 2004 at 2:44pm
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Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 21 January 2004 at 3:35pm
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OMG this is great! I doubt MS will actually win, i dont see any problems with it since its spelled completly different. ------------- http://www.iportalx.net" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 21 January 2004 at 3:48pm
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MS do see a problem with it, as the name is pronounced almost like microsoft... its crazy.. btw.. have you heard of the lindows case some years ago? |
Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 21 January 2004 at 4:52pm
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I dont think there is anything they can do really. After all Mike Rowe
can sue Microsoft for using part of his name in their name... How funny
would that be..
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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 21 January 2004 at 6:56pm
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Well he sure could not do that but all MS hatred aside, Domain name disputes are common and I can understand MS's position thus do not agree with the initial contact they made. They seem to agree that they have taken it to serious. If his website was not commerical there would have not been much they could do, like http://nissan.com/ - http://nissan.com/ for example. ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 21 January 2004 at 10:51pm
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This kind of pi$$es me off. I don't see any reason why someone should not be allowed to use their own name in a domain name. This entire copyright thing is going WAY too far. If Microsoft or Nissan really had a serious interest in this, they should have gotten off their lazy butts and bought the domain names. What was it that Shakespeare wrote about killing all the lawyers first? ------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |
Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 21 January 2004 at 10:54pm
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Oh, and things like "soft", "solutions", "productions", "~onic", etc. are common tags to the end of a name, and I don't see why that should be copyrightable either.
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Posted By: zMaestro
Date Posted: 22 January 2004 at 3:41am
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i think isn't it now goes under the rule of "First Come... First Serve"? and a company has to protect its name by registering all its TLD... + I'm sure if the registrar of this domain was here in Egypt, no one can dare charging him |
Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 10 February 2004 at 12:45pm
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Lol it looks like they settled this whole thing http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3429485.stm - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3429485.stm ------------- If you dont want my peaches, dont shake my tree |