http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/19/offbeat.mike.rowe.soft.ap/index.html

 

 

"Since my name is Mike Rowe, I thought it would be funny to add 'soft' to the end of it," said Rowe.

 

Microsoft, however, is not amused.

 

It has demanded that he give up his domain name. In November, Rowe received a letter from Microsoft's Canadian lawyers informing him he was committing copyright infringement.

 

"I didn't think they would get all their high-priced lawyers to come after me," Rowe said.

 

OH NOS CANADIAN LAWYERS ALL RUN

thats actually funny he wrote back and said 10 grand

why dont we just link to www.ircspy.com k?

Heh...I think the kid would be better off if he lived in the US...CAN courts have a little sense, and might actually force him to accept a smaller settlement, but in the States, he could counter sue for big bucks, and probably win :)

That guy's actually pretty funny.

offered him 10 bucks.. what a joke

lol...I think I'd counter by offering to sell them rights to the domain for a few grand....

Yup, I'd sell it to them. Microsoft can't pull this copyright infringement shit on him.

they had a lawsuit against lindows and as far as i know fuckbillgates/microsuck.com are still up, why dont they do shit to them.

:ughwtf:

some1 should register more similar domains and ask for high price

 

oh and get the medias attention then your rich :grin2:

actually mike plays CS on the http://www.insanejustice.com servers, he plays as Razor or something like that, Razor 1911 or something

razor1911 ?

why does that sound so damn familiar

yea, i thought the same thing when he said that spork

yea lol 3 secs after i posted that i realized that its the name of a warez group :gaykeke:

microsoft are queers

Hes actually settled the case for an xbox, some games, helping him get microsoft cert'd and some other shit.

what a sellout (even tho id do the same)

Heh...I think the kid would be better off if he lived in the US...CAN courts have a little sense, and might actually force him to accept a smaller settlement, but in the States, he could counter sue for big bucks, and probably win :)

 

very true, I don't know how canadian courts work but if this was U.S. he could of made this huge. Talked about how "the big guy is picking on the little guys and hes tried of it". I am sure he could get some lawyers to go about it for free almost b/c the payoff would be huge. Just imagine the head lines "Microsoft corp demanding a kid give his domain name up b/c it is similiar to software giant microsoft" or something of that nature. Wow...brilliant

lolz @ 10 bucks

this kid had it all figured out