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Intel Picking on Little Chips
« on: January 31, 2004 10:08 am CST »
Quote from my news:

Intel's Picking on Little Chips

In a not so surprising move by Intel, they are picking on the owner of http://www.intelrecon.com over use of the word "intel" in the domain.  Intel claims that "use of INTELRECON.COM and IntelRecon is likely to deceive and confuse consumers as to the source of your services and/or suggest some affiliation or relationship....that does not exist."  It's pretty apparent at first glance of http://www.intelrecon.com that they have nothing to do with Intel.  Intel (in the site's case) is referring to a common gaming and military term, short for intelligence.

Give the email a read

Once you've read the emails, give http://www.intelrecon.com a visit or talk about it in my forums.

Intel is (c) Intel Corporation (http://www.intel.com)
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« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2004 01:57 pm CST »
Sounds more like something microsoft would do.
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« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2004 05:56 pm CST »
Sounds more like something Microsoft did do.
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« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2004 06:20 pm CST »
That is ridiculous. Intel's reasoning is that because their company name is Intel, any further use of that word is copyright infringement. Any consumer that actually assumes that IntelRecon is part of Intel would be summarily deterred in the first 0.2 seconds of viewing that site. If they're stupid enough to not realize that, it's their fault, not IntelRecon's.

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« Reply #4 on: February 1, 2004 04:01 pm CST »
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« Reply #5 on: February 1, 2004 05:14 pm CST »
Ya thats what i was thinking about.
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« Reply #6 on: February 1, 2004 05:42 pm CST »
there was also something similar to that dealing with Blizzard's WarCraft series.  someone made a game or something and tititled it FreeCraft and they got shut down, and similarly someone using the Craft in the name would assume to be Blizzard's making as Intel belongs to Intel.
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« Reply #7 on: February 1, 2004 05:59 pm CST »
Thats not right :-(
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« Reply #8 on: February 1, 2004 08:15 pm CST »
No big deal there tho.  Freecraft was a peice of crap, and a total ripoff of warcraft.  Right down to the things the characters said when u clicked on them.
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« Reply #9 on: February 1, 2004 09:50 pm CST »
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No big deal there tho.  Freecraft was a peice of crap, and a total ripoff of warcraft.  Right down to the things the characters said when u clicked on them.


 If thats true, then I can see why they wanted it shut down. But for something that obviously doesnt contain anything relevant to the larger corporation's product/service, they should just let it go.
 Its like if Apple sued McDonald's for sellng a BigMac. (Or whichever came first.) But it is funny to think that Microsoft felt threatened by some kid's website.

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« Reply #10 on: February 1, 2004 10:00 pm CST »
I find it funny that Microsoft tried to get the kid to shut down his site when they wanted to send him a mere $10. He wanted something more like $10,000. It's all about the damn money. And it's his site, with a different URL. Microsoft, get lost.
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« Reply #11 on: February 1, 2004 10:08 pm CST »
He gave in tho.  He got what he wanted, publicity.  And an xbox... and an invitation to a few microsoft shows.
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« Reply #12 on: February 1, 2004 10:13 pm CST »
I would rather take $10,000 over an xBox and the ability to get into a few microsoft shows.  you can do more with money than with objects :).
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« Reply #13 on: February 2, 2004 05:52 am CST »
Microsoft shows which he will probably never go to..

An xbox which he probably had.
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« Reply #14 on: February 2, 2004 08:52 am CST »
If somebody is wanting to go to microsoft.com and accidentally types mikerowesoft.com, there's a definate "double digiter" involved.
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