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Microsoft sues 17year old Canadian Mike Rowe for his domain: MikeRoweSoft.com
PostPosted:Mon Jan 19, 2004 12:38 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34955.html">Not joking</a>
Microsoft sues 17year old Canadian Mike Rowe for his domain: MikeRoweSoft.com</div>
He should have just taken the 10 bucks and asked for the support of moving his site over to another domain at the expense of Microsoft. If he makes a bigger deal out of this then he's being slightly stupider than Microsoft for even filing the suit in the
PostPosted:Mon Jan 19, 2004 2:35 pm
by Julius Seeker
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>It would cause a lot less headaches and cash if he would just get the courts to make the website domain name banned from use, so it does not infringe on Mike Rowe's name, or Microsofts. He does not have to call his site MikeRowesoft, it could be MikeRowe.com, or MikeRoweNet.com, something like that. Besides, Microsoft is a stupid sounding word anyways, if you think about it =P</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:35 am
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Why call him stupid? MS has a stupid lawsuit in their hands. They can go fuck themselves. Even if he spends a little bit of money on defending the domain, it's justified for the effect it has on precident.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:39 am
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>With the accidential $10K offer, that lowered his chances from 99% to 50%, and that's only because WIPO (wipe-po!) is known to be corrupt fuckers on this matter. Still, it's worth fighting over.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jan 20, 2004 8:08 am
by Julius Seeker
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>It's stupid to waste ALL this time over a stupid domain name.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jan 20, 2004 8:42 am
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>It's his name. So it's important. MS dropped the lawsuit anyway.</div>