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soapyfish
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Posted: 4th Mar 2006 04:20 Edited at: 4th Mar 2006 04:21
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http://www.ie7.com/

How long before it mysteriously disappears?

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Benjamin
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Posted: 4th Mar 2006 04:23
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Niiiice.

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Posted: 4th Mar 2006 04:25
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When Microsoft mysteriosly pays them large sums of money or sues.

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soapyfish
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Posted: 4th Mar 2006 04:27
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Quote: "When Microsoft mysteriosly pays them large sums of money or sues"


So, encourage more people to do it or discourage more people from doing it. I'm guessing it'll be the latter.

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ionstream
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Posted: 4th Mar 2006 04:30
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Microsoft might not have grounds to sue the site, though.

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soapyfish
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Posted: 4th Mar 2006 04:49
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Where's that bear when you need him. Stealing pic-a-nic baskets I bet.

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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 4th Mar 2006 06:10
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At a guess, they could probably argue that 'IE7' is an infringement upon their trade mark.


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FoxBlitzz
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Posted: 4th Mar 2006 07:39
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Once Microsoft sued some kid for registering a domain with a mispelling of microsoft.com. It's very possible that Microsoft could sue whoever made this one.

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Posted: 4th Mar 2006 09:55
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Actually, they tried to pay out Mike Rowe, owner of MikeRoweSoft.com a couple hundred dollars to give up the domain, but he refused and asked for $10,000. At which point, Microsoft sued, claiming it was extortion. I think the case was settled for about $500 and a free XBox.


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Posted: 4th Mar 2006 11:14
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What I want to know is how the FIZZLE can Microsoft sue someone with a domain MikeRoweSoft.com?!?!?! That's just plain lunacy. How the hell can they sue someone with IE7.com - that's not a trademark (to my knowledge - I assume it's Internet Explorer 7), nor are they slating MS in anyway. It's simply a redirect. And how can you sue someone for extortion because they ask a lot of money for something that you really don't need?!?! Extortion is where you force someone to pay rediculous amounts of cash for something they have to buy for reasons such as blackmail.

I'm just assuming all these cases happened in the United States of Sue. I can't see it happening anywhere else.

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Posted: 4th Mar 2006 12:35
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If they were going to sue, you'd figure they'd of got ie5.com and ie6.com atleast, not that there is anything quite as interesting as ie7.com... heh, it's a very clever idea.

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 4th Mar 2006 12:54
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They didn't SUE the bloody MikeRowe kid, they just gave him an xbox.

Anyway, the ie7.com domain is going to be worth a fortune.

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Posted: 4th Mar 2006 14:49
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Actually, they couldnt sue because they had no real grounds to stand on, so it was a surefire loss case. Not to mention some up and coming lawyers would love to have a victory against M$ under their belt. http://www.mikerowesoft.com its still his site
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We use both Firefox and IE7 at work, and Firefox is the better of the two by far.

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Posted: 4th Mar 2006 17:26
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i use firefox also, my only problem with it is that it lacks some capatibility with some microsoft services...wonder why....

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Posted: 4th Mar 2006 22:33
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He *did* lose mikerowesoft.com to Microsoft, it's just taking a long time for it to transfer over (who knows why).

And you can't purposely register a domain name that sounds like a trademark then ask an exorbitant amount of money for it (like the kid did, $10gs or whatever).

They did a thing on that kid on TV because he lives in my province. After MS sued him all kinds of people on the net offered their help, and the humongous court documents MS sent him (hundreds of pages) were sold on ebay. He earned some good money from his plight in the end.

I believe MS ended up giving him an xbox, a tour of MS and perhaps some college scholarship if I remember. But he still lost the domain name.


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You could argue that it's a gaming clan - Interregular Exoristz7, say, and the firefox banner is just a placeholder. Microsoft doesn't have a chance


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Les Horribres
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It sounds like Microsoft originally asked for the domain name to be taked down. If Mike Rowe only asked for more money, he can not be held acountable for extortion. It was but a propsition, doomed to fail, but still a proposition. Now, if M$ paid someone to say that the name was in violation of their trademark (I say paid because there is more then just phenetics when dealing with TMed names/phrases) and produced documents saying that he HAD to remove the domain, and then he said no, pay me money, then he probally had commited some criminal act.

The IE7 domain is in complete violation, however. It is purposly using the name of the software as it's url. And unlike MikeRowSoft, it is spelled both phenitically and phsically the same. If MS finds out, it will go down. Besides, Microsoft extorts all the judges anyways.

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Posted: 5th Mar 2006 07:01
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Quote: "Besides, Microsoft extorts all the judges anyways."


Proof? Links?


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It is a conspiracy... you don't need no proof... just a lot of people to believe you...

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Well I prefer to keep my feet on the ground and live in what is normally called *reality*, where things are proven or disproven.*

* Although I still believe bigfoot exists


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Posted: 5th Mar 2006 13:36 Edited at: 5th Mar 2006 13:38
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Reality is mean.

I don't like it.

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Right on Mega. IE7 will be better then Heroine.

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Woot? Jimmy is back? Hurrah. We'd missed his brand of, er, humour.

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Actually I'm not certain who's in control of that account. Certainly isn't jimmy 'tho - http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=50486&b=1


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*chuckle*

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I'm probably alone on this, but FF sucks!


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I'd rather they concentrated on making good browser software instead of childish pranks.

These competitors to M$, namely Mozilla and Google, in order to compete they're ending up doing all the horrible marketing crud that we hate M$ for.

Are we gonna get to the stage where AOL is the best system for accesing the internet?, what a total nightmare!. Neither IE or FF seem capable of accesing my hotmail account right now, I pay for a 10mb broadband connection that I can't use to check my hotmail, look for my picture in the dictionary under 'Disgruntled'.


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Quote: "Actually I'm not certain who's in control of that account. Certainly isn't jimmy 'tho - http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=50486&b=1"


It's Megaton.

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Quote: "These competitors to M$, namely Mozilla and Google, in order to compete they're ending up doing all the horrible marketing crud that we hate M$ for."

like... what?

ie7.com wasn't made by the Mozilla team... some fanboy... i don't know what you mean by that statement...


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you dont know what hes talking about? try those gay sig images everyone had a while back 'get firefox' was it? and some had avatars of a mozila icon eating ie and all sorts sure its not directly the mozilla team but the flock of idiots that follow them, im using firefox atm and used to use avant browser, and i have to say im pretty annoyed with ff only thing i like is the session saver saves after a pc restart! avant brower doesnt sometimes which is why i uninstalled it.

my main problem wite firefox is the ammount of ram it uses i saw it use 120megs the other day, and some browsing things are annoying, this ad blocker plugin i downloaded doesnt seem to block anything, but i do like the plugin manager thing thats nicely done.

but tbh i hate these idiots that just say oh ie sucks get ff when ff clearly is way faaaar from perfect.

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David T, you mean megaton made an account 3 years ago, predicting that Jimmy would leave!!!

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Quote: "? try those gay sig images everyone had a while back 'get firefox' was it? [...] its not directly the mozilla team but the flock of idiots that follow them."

You mean a larger version of the image you'd find at the bottom of this very forum? So you think the admin of this forum is a (smaller) part of the that flock of idiots?

Quote: "im using firefox atm and used to use avant browser, and i have to say im pretty annoyed with ff only thing i like is the session saver saves after a pc restart! avant brower doesnt sometimes which is why i uninstalled it.
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tbh i hate these idiots that just say oh ie sucks get ff when ff clearly is way faaaar from perfect."

Erm... that doesn't make a lot sense. Why do you use Firefox? People recommend Firefox because they think it's better than IE (and I agree with them) and not because it's perfect.


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Quote: "Are we gonna get to the stage where AOL is the best system for accesing the internet?"
my mom uses aol, has me signed up for an account, but i hate it more than a wet toilet seat, so i use firefox, hotmail, gmail, yahoo mail, windows messenger beta, and aim triton, and it all works out for me

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i do think ie on its own isnt very good but as i said i used avant browser which works off ie but adds various things like disabling scripts/sctivex ads etc etc and supports tabs, the only reason i switched was because my pc crashed while playing battlefield2(not the 1st time) and totally wiped my current 10tabs that are opened and ofcourse i dont memorize all my urls so i got very annoyed and got firefox which is also bloddy annoying but no loss of tabs. yet

Quote: "You mean a larger version of the image you'd find at the bottom of this very forum? So you think the admin of this forum is a (smaller) part of the that flock of idiots?"
not in the same way, as the forums button is very unnoticable, im talking about the morons with the 800x600 images saying ie sucks get ff.

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I haven't seen any of those you mentioned, like the one with the Fox eating the E. Where can I get these?


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Well its what Microsoft get for stealing ideas, I won't leave my Firefox, I got for the real thing and not cheap fakes!!!!

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Which ideas did MS steal from Firefox? Firefox doesn't have anything original either


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srry BUT I REALLY THINK ITS A 3 YEAR OLDS WEB BROWSER !!!!!!


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Quote: "and got firefox which is also bloddy annoying"

If you find it so annoying, why don't you use a different browser?


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