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M2RTY

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21st Jan 04 at 08:11

http://www.mikerowesoft.com/

SKI

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21st Jan 04 at 08:41

it was in the sun yesterday about how they want to close him dow nand sue him because of the site

l33t corsa

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21st Jan 04 at 09:21

I think he is stupid. I mean, do you think his site just happened to sound like Microsoft by accident? He had it coming. Going by Microsoft's past, what they hell did he think was going to happen?

M2RTY

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21st Jan 04 at 09:28

yeah but even if he DID do it for a laugh and to sound like microsoft, there is no formal law on copywriting a sound unless its sheet music

M2RTY

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21st Jan 04 at 09:29

microsoft have just shot themselves in the foot again by picking on 17 year old lads

next they will be throwing nuns off a cliff because they have painted their 4 orphen school childrens classroms in similar colours to their "windows" logo

Nismo

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21st Jan 04 at 09:32

yeah fair play , like he said he was just hoping that microwsoft would buy the domain of him and he would be quids in , but there taking him to court , does he think he will win

my moneys on Baty Boy Billy

Tom

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21st Jan 04 at 09:36

agree with marv

good luck to him

vibrio

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21st Jan 04 at 09:56

it depends on how you say the name.

but Thompson industrys is different to Thomson industrys.

M2RTY

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21st Jan 04 at 10:39

i didnt read that he wanted to sell it??

if thats the case then hes a nob too

Nismo

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21st Jan 04 at 10:57

l33t corsa

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21st Jan 04 at 11:42

quote:
Originally posted by M2RV H
i didnt read that he wanted to sell it??

if thats the case then hes a nob too

He said they could have it for $10,000 or something.

By doing that he shot himself in the foot, as in the eyes of domain name arbitrators offering to sell for profit to the other party is basically admitting that you bought it to make money and not for legitimate use.

micra_pete

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21st Jan 04 at 11:47

no they offered him 10 usd

M2RTY

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21st Jan 04 at 11:50

aye they offered him 10usd BUT he said he wanted 10,000 and its worth more

l33t corsa is saying this makes him look like he did it for the money

willay

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21st Jan 04 at 11:53

they offered 10, but he said its worth 10k, so they go off sayin gBLAH BLAH BLAH hes cybersquating, hes trying to profit from our name etc etc etc

Adam

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21st Jan 04 at 12:13

It probably is worth about $10,000.

If you actually read what he said

quote:

I responded to this email saying that I was not ready to give up my domain name since I had put so much time and effort into establishing my name, getting my business cards out and posting my services on the Internet. If I were to give up my domain, I would lose all the time and effort I had put into it.

willay

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21st Jan 04 at 12:16

if that was directed at me I did read it, but I just summed up what Microsoft are pulling imho.

Adam

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21st Jan 04 at 12:17

no, mainly at l33t

willay

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21st Jan 04 at 12:25

l33t corsa

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21st Jan 04 at 17:14

quote:
Originally posted by Adam
It probably is worth about $10,000.

If you actually read what he said

quote:

I responded to this email saying that I was not ready to give up my domain name since I had put so much time and effort into establishing my name, getting my business cards out and posting my services on the Internet. If I were to give up my domain, I would lose all the time and effort I had put into it.

"I responded by asking for $10,000, which I regret doing now, for my work and domain name.”

http://www.theregister.com/content/6/34955.html

Fair enough it may well be worth $10000... odd as it seems, but offering to sell looks bad in domain disputes.

C'mon it's obvious he chose mikerowesoft.com because it sounded like the biggest software company in the world.

Adam

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21st Jan 04 at 17:16

they told him to sell and that they would give him $10, he said they had to give him more like $10,000 as compensation

It could just be that his name is Mike Rowe

Ian

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21st Jan 04 at 17:27

Just take the tenner

James@CCC

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21st Jan 04 at 18:41

quote:
Originally posted by Adam

It could just be that his name is Mike Rowe

...which it is...

Dave

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21st Jan 04 at 19:33

Its like the Simpsons when Homer sets up his own computer company,CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet

, then Bill Gates and two big guys come round and smash everything up!

[Edited on 21-01-2004 by CorsaDave]

Trucido

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21st Jan 04 at 19:41

lmfao classic...i got busted once because I used a paragraph of text from another site and they saw it...and sent me a threatening email about copyright n stuff.

But as u said there is no law on sounding like something else

Paul H

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21st Jan 04 at 20:09

it's like vauxhall taking tim & ian to court for using the name corsa sport

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