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Apple wins iTunes.co.uk domain
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The following comments relate to this news article:
article published on 16 March, 2005
In an absolutely amazing decision, Apple has won the rights to the iTunes.co.uk domain, despite the fact that its owner Benjamin Cohen registered it years before Apple ever had the iTunes music service. AfterDawn reported that Apple had accused Cohen of cyber squatting, even though he registered the domain on 7th November 2000 whereas Apple were only had the trademark for "iTunes" published ... [ read the full article ]
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domie
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16. March 2005 @ 03:38 |
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we all already know, there is virtually nothing that money and corporate clout can´t buy these days.
they offered him $ 5,000 but couldn´t pay $ 50,000 i guess i will have to go out and buy 50 i-pods, times must be hard for them.
brings new meaning to the expression "one bad apple"
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Rosco404
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16. March 2005 @ 04:23 |
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That is terrable!!! I feel for Benjamin Cohen...
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SD2
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16. March 2005 @ 04:58 |
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money money money its all you need.
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16. March 2005 @ 05:13 |
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OH MY LORD!!!! YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FREAKING KIDDING ME???
That is like a TOTAL slap in the face...who cares that he was cyber squatting on the domain name, he paid for it didn't he.
Apple was SO damn cheap in offering him $5k, I would have spit in their face. They knew damn well that they could have paid him $50k for it.
Anyways, I don't know about you all, but I WAS going to buy an IPOD, don't think I will now.
Feel for the guy too....but I guess that is big business for ya!
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Quadratic
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16. March 2005 @ 05:19 |
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That is the most bogus case I've seen in a while.
I mean seriously, how can they rule in favor of Apple when he had the domain a month before them?
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joe777
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16. March 2005 @ 07:54 |
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You know something I was posting on another thread earlier, the thread about the cloned ipod shuffle and one of the members said that they hope apple will sue the pants off the copy cats and basically he/she was sticking up for apple. I on the other hand reffered to apple as corporate nazis. Now this person made the following comment: WEll, like it or not punx777, luxpro are screwed.If you tihkn its right for them to do that, then why dont you design summit that's the market leader, i'll copy it exaclty, and add 'super' into the name, then watch as you eat your own words.
Now I hope the person who wrote this will eat their words.Mr Cohen wouldn't appreciate your words of wisdom, but maybe you are young and dont even pay into the system yet, and you surely dont understand the meaning of corporate nazis. As you get older and see half of your hard earned cash going to the people that run our countries and of course the corporations who probably run most governments, you start to ask what is happenning. Bill Hicks summed it for america when he said "wake up america, you are free to do what we tell you to do" same for everyone really.
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Letukka
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16. March 2005 @ 07:59 |
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Fine. This does it. I´m not getting any products from this bitchassholecompany ever. Retards.
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dlc2000
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16. March 2005 @ 09:24 |
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money is power , with lots of it anything can be done . who said money doesnt make the world go around ?
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pevelius
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16. March 2005 @ 09:58 |
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eversince i bought a powerbook a year ago (my very first apple product) i have read this kind of crap from the company that represented "the small guy agains evil companies". i, too will definetly boycott apple totally.
pity, powerbook is a really nice tool ;)
well, when i want to buy a new computer it´ll be 100% linux/bsd.
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MXGzX
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16. March 2005 @ 11:10 |
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hahaha I'm glad apple won! have any of you actually been to his crap ass site? He tried selling it to napster? lol he's growing up to become quite a sleeze...
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VicRamano
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16. March 2005 @ 11:27 |
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I bet that Apple paid well over the $50K for lawyer fees. I am a mac user and I think that Apple is f'n rediculous on how they seem to be handling things lately. It seems that they have been sue happy lately.
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16. March 2005 @ 11:37 |
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It seems that they have been sue happy lately.
How right you are...like Steve Jobbs suddenly wakes up and says,"Oh my God, I had the worst nightmare...I dreamt that I wasn't suing anyone for every little cotton picking thing, man that was scary....let me get my lawyers on the phone, someone is getting reammed today."
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I bet that Apple paid well over the $50K for lawyer fees.
LOL! I could so believe that.....can we say...better money management.
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spooky2k
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16. March 2005 @ 11:59 |
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Joe777:
I dont think i will eat my words. I know exaclty what you mean about the whole corporate nazi thing..but its life. Its the way the world runs. Everyone has to live with it everyday, and i sure as hell would liek to do something abou tit. Bu tyou simply cannot copy a product identicaly and expect not to be sued. thats jsut stupid. i dont agree with apple winning on this case because the guy payed for the domain. Theres a big difference between the two...apple screwed a guy over here, and on the luxpro thing, they are trying to screw apple over unfairly. LuxPro will not win. If they do, im setting up a business to sell ipods as 'ePods' and i should be sorted for life.
Its not so much how apple run their business, as say, common sense.
Dan x
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16. March 2005 @ 12:04 |
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That is the most bogus case I've seen in a while.
I mean seriously, how can they rule in favor of Apple when he had the domain a month before them?
This is VERY true, I mean if "iTunes" was registered after the site was made (as the article says) then Benjamin Cohen should be able to sue apple for using his site's name without permission :P
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16. March 2005 @ 13:11 |
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The only difference between Bill Gay-tes and Steve b. Jobs is Steve-o did more drugs. Bill was afraid he might get bong water on his pocket protector.
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16. March 2005 @ 13:18 |
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Pirates Of Silicon Valley explains it all!
Love that movie!
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joe777
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16. March 2005 @ 14:10 |
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No man you got it wrong, bill gates was applying for a patent (for the bong) whilst being shown how it worked. Spooky2k you are truely confused my friend.Pink floyd wrote a song especially for you its called "Have A Cigar" its on the album Wish You Were Here. You first said you know exactly what i was speaking about and then you went on to say thats life, then everyone has to live with it, then you would sure like to change it.But then you say its simply stupid what luxpro have done. Stupid maybe but i take my hat off to them for challenging the big guns and by supporting people like this you can see which side of the fence i am standing on. But you my friend you know what i mean about corporate nazis and you still choose to support apple. Why not support the others, and then you will be doing something about it, just like some other people posted that they would never buy any of the products again, of course is another way to show your dislike for what is going on.Apple got screwed unfairly? and what is your definition of fair in this day and age?. It might be a dog eat dog world but i hope the jack russel will do the business for us. And 1 last thing , if you make the epod and its a better price with more functions then put me down for 1 i will support you matey
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spooky2k
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17. March 2005 @ 08:13 |
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if you'd support me andd expect me not to get my ass sued off, or not want to, then your confused between supporting someone whos a worthy cause supportin gppl who are just blindly lacking in common sense.
Fact is, whether i like it or not, Apple made the mp3 player i know and love. Hell, my home PC is windows, and I dispise microsoft...but this is easiest to use fo rmy whole family, so i make do( i do hope to get my own non-windows comp soon). It seems in your eyes, theres only 2 places to be, suport 'corporate nazis' or support companys tryign to rip them off. When infact, theres an inbetween too. Which is where i stand. I support the little companies that can make a stand against a company like Apple that isnt jsut down right stupid. LuxPro should knwo theyr'e gunan to get their asses sued..and rightly so. IF someone did what theyre doign to apple to them, they'd sue that company too. What we ne3ed, is for another small company to make somethign that doesnt resemble an iPod but is jsut purely better than.
I admire LuxPro for one reason (anything beyond this they're just a pruely stupid non-common sense company) - they've proven that apple could have added all this functionality to the shuffle, and myabe apple will pull their finger out knowing this. Just Maybe.
Bill Gates' products still do not work as they are supposed to. I get so angry thinking how rich he is when infact he can teven do his damn job properly anymore.
I said this is i hate the way the world works, but i live with it. I would liek it to change in a fair manner...not by peopel screwing other peopel over...which is sxaclty what luxpro are doing to apple, and exactly what apple did for the domain...its stupid. But All we can do is suport the thigns we believe in, and not support the thigns we dont. I dont support luxpro for doign what they've done...i dont support apple for the domain...i'll not buy a song from itunes...i'll not buy the 'super shuffle'. But damn, i've bought an iPod and love it. If they screw me on that..i wont buy another one in a few years time. Simple as.
Dan x
p.s: i do apologise for my typing, my brain goes faster than my hands.
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17. March 2005 @ 08:59 |
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Sure it was that....or were you drinking...LOL!
This article is pretty messed up for alot of reasons, and I know I feel for the guy. To bad he couldn't get to keep the name.
BTW, does anyone have any idea as to what he got the name for?
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Letukka
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17. March 2005 @ 22:55 |
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"BTW, does anyone have any idea as to what he got the name for?"
Does it matter? Even if he did it just the get some money, what difference does that make? None. He was there first and Apple just swinged him out of the domain by money. IF they saved some in the lawyer fees (which I doubt) what about all the negative publicity they get from this? A very, very stupid move from Apple.
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newtod
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18. March 2005 @ 00:07 |
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Here's a post I'm sure I won't be popular for mentioning but...
This guy registered itunes.co.uk 1 month before Apple registered a trademark.
Now I guess Apple had itunes going for some time before they registered a trademark so maybe Mr Cohen got some wind of what apple were up to and got in there 1st. Surely Apple just provided doumented proof that itunes was in existance well before itunes.co.uk was pinched under their noses.
Don't get me wrong, I'm very much against the 'Man' but something sounds fishy about this story....
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18. March 2005 @ 03:13 |
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Does it matter? Even if he did it just the get some money, what difference does that make? None.
The only reason I asked was because I was curious why he got it, no big deal. Chill out, it was nothing important.
We all feel the same way about the story, so your not alone. It was just something that I thought if ANYONE knew, it would be kinda cool to know what he was going to to use it for.
Thats all.
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A_Klingon
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18. March 2005 @ 04:35 |
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Hmmmmmm.......
And you mean, they didn't even offer him a coupon for a lousy half-dozen free iTunes? (Geeze.....) talk about cheeep. [Just joking]. I have not the slightest desire to 'own' a cancerous drm-stymied iTune anyway.
I won't be buying an Apple iPod (any flavor) today or next year or ever.
DELL has just come out with their own truly remarkable replacement (competitor) to the iPod. I saw a guy on the bus yesterday using it. It has a flat-out *terrific* screen display (not all squished), has softly-lit blue buttons, and looks about three times as sturdy as the iPod.
Have you ever noticed how cheesy (cheap and flimsy) the iPods look on the various websites? Well, this DELL version looked just the opposite. "Substancial" is how I would describe it.
I'd be scared to death to accidentally drop an iPod. *Poof*! $350 (Can.$) out the window.
Based on the iPod's (apparent) flimsiness and Apple's Ebeneser-Scrooge-type kissoff of the gentleman who owned the domain name, I now add my personal boycott of Apple's iPod to my already-running boycott of HP ink-jets.
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Letukka
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18. March 2005 @ 05:01 |
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No no venom, that last remark wasn't meant for you, it was meant for all these other idiots who think that justice has taken place in this news. NHF venom =)
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18. March 2005 @ 05:52 |
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Oh ok...I gotcha :)
NHF to you too Letukka
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