Hey, I totally disagree, this does not disgust me just because this guy is 17, it would even if a 40yr old *millionaire* went through the same thing, I would think it wrong For example, I firmly believe that a farmer growing and selling apples it totally within his rights to have a website apple.tld where he can advertise and sell his apples.
This guy didnt change his name to "Mike Rowe" or make it intentionally, he got that name from his family, its spelled totally different from "M i c r o S o f t " and he is even selling different products compared to MS, which in this day and age is hard to do coz they are in every damn thing. I see there are other domains in question that MS is trying to take down, which is understandable...eg: micorosoft, microosoft etc ...their arguement being that consumers will get confused, if you look at the two last examples you can understand why, but you would have to be one of the dumbest inbred hillibillies to think that MicroSoft and MikeRoweSoft are spelled similarly. Now for the RIAA bloodsuckers, right now they are going after Kazaa, true, but not everyone uses that program, spyware being on of the reasons, they go in for kazaalite (same as kazaa, no spyware) found at http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror.htm http://doa2.host.sk a lot of the other links/sites have been taken down but personally _IF_ I were a music dl'er I would use something like kazaalite, blogster, dc++, direct connect, winMX etc as they are much better. Very unlikely that the RIAA scumbags will try to buy all these companies as more would just pop up. CNN: Music downloading is on the rise after the RIAA starts sueing by 6% OCT and 7% NOV (i couldnt find stats for months after that) Oh, BTH, I myself use windows (2000 pro) Cheers, -Ryan > > Well > there's also the small fact that under US copyright law if a company > doesn't > enforce its rights over said copyright, they lose the right to use > it exclusively. Take a look at Kleenex - they failed to take steps to > protect their name and now all tissue paper is known as Kleenex. > > If you step back and look at the situation from another angle - what if > this 17yr kid was a 34yr old guy in a basement and what if Microsoft were > > Red Hat or SuSE or Debian or some company that alot of ppl -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
