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Mike Rowe
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palloco
January 21, 2004, 12:19 pm
Microsoft is demanding a guy becuz he used his name to make a web, so basically Micorosoft say that being named Mike Rowe is illegal:
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4170302§ion=news
http://www.mikerowesoft.com/

NullShot
January 21, 2004, 4:30 pm
what do you want us to do then?

palloco
January 21, 2004, 8:03 pm
Nothing, just to show an example of what had Microsoft been doing for all these years.

Alamo
January 21, 2004, 9:18 pm
i read that in the newspaper today (!)

Meandor
January 21, 2004, 10:27 pm
He's just a lucky bum. Even if he doesn't win, he received a lot of traffic.

frogboy
January 21, 2004, 10:29 pm
That gives me an idea... *makes fake publicity stunt... Microsoft is suing me too now*

morpheus
January 21, 2004, 11:04 pm
"Rowe is demanding $10,000 from Microsoft to change the site's name."

this kid must not be to bright. ms / gates has billions. he should ask for more.

R
January 22, 2004, 12:33 am
i dont even see how microsoft can sue him for using his name as a site domain, its his name and it just sounds similar to microsoft but spelled completely different.

gi.joe
January 22, 2004, 12:39 am
lol this dude is soo stupid... ASK FOR MORE IDIOT!

AerialAssault
January 23, 2004, 2:12 am
he needs to ask for a billion dollars

n00bface
January 23, 2004, 3:24 am
no.... 2.. billion... dollars.. mwaha... hahaha... AHAHHAHAH

palloco
January 26, 2004, 11:18 am
ROFLMAO, what a loser, he gave up his demand to get a XBOX.
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7751

makazuma
January 26, 2004, 11:31 am

If he was little cool he would have asked for a playstation at least.

Camping_Carl
January 27, 2004, 5:44 pm
>.< if he was cooler he would ask them to kill sony and get a gamecube

BManx2000
January 27, 2004, 7:52 pm
Wow. I agree with CC. ARGH!

n00bface
January 27, 2004, 8:07 pm
For an Xbox!? ahahah what a loser.. btw when the site was still up, I noticed his work totally sucked XD

Hitman
January 27, 2004, 9:15 pm
What did this guy do anyways?..

Edit - Just read the thing, lol.

kevith
January 27, 2004, 11:31 pm
From a legal standpoint, Mike got a great deal. Microsoft would have won and Mike would not have received anything. His fatal flaw was using the 'soft' in his domain name bc it would attract attention and basically be considered an attempt to capitalize on Microsoft's trademark. If he had made it just mikerowe.com or something else he would have been fine.

makazuma
January 30, 2004, 1:31 pm

Hehe he owns us all now read this: [URL]

Big money for some paperwork [;)]

kevith
January 30, 2004, 1:45 pm
Wow... $22,700 atm... maybe i'll try to buy www.mycrowssoft.com