This is the voice of a billion dollar corporation "speaking" to a single blogger. Ignore all the flowery speech - trim it down to the noun and verb: "We pursue." I hope this will become one of CNN/Business 2.0's 101 Stupidest Corporate Acts of 2007.
A simple request to change domain names, and a 'Skype appreciates your work,", would have sufficed.
The blog is gone. Will it be back? Read Jan Geirnaert's remark below.
http://www.skypejournal.com/blog/2007/04/s...phablogger.html
http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogVi...ntry=3355244713
http://www.skypejournal.com/blog/2007/04/s...phablogger.html
See http://webtown.typepad.com/:
Jan said "I'm not a sadomasochist. Neither am I an idiot. By doing this, Skype sent me the signal not do any of this blogging wise, business wise, in any way."
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Skype-gadgets.com - Skype-watch.com closed down in order to legally comply with Skype.
am removing my Skype blog away from www.skype-gadgets.com and www.skype-watch.com in compliance with the legal request of Skype.
Copy of the email as received from Skype from Seema Sharma [seema.sharma@skype.net] on Sat 4/28/2007 1:45 AM
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Dear Mr Geirnaert
Lester Madden has passed to me a copy of your email below so that I may respond to it. I am an IP lawyer at Skype.
In the first instance, I should like to stress that we work very hard at Skype to prevent third parties from illegally registering and using domains with the trade mark SKYPE in the URL where the domains in question are not officially endorsed by or associated with Skype. It goes without saying that we do not want third party domains and the associated websites to appear to the wider community as being associated with or endorsed by Skype when they are not. I take your point that it may be the case that there are other Skype related domain names registered which do not belong to Skype.
However, you should be assured that we try to (and are very successful at) both not only making extensive pre-emptive defensive registrations for domains but also retrieving domain names that have been registered without regard to Skype’s trade mark rights. Should you require more information about our domain name enforcement policy, please contact our external domain name specialist attorney, Don Moody (donm@gengalaw.com).
Therefore, whilst I appreciate that you have extended us the courtesy of an approach for consent to use certain promotional items in connection with your sites, you will no doubt understand why we can not depart from our standard policy and give you permissions to use the domains you have registered for any purpose, including blogging. Nor can we give you permission to promote sites owned by you which are not associated with nor endorsed by Skype.
I should mention that we are always happy when third parties enthusiastically promote Skype however, we will not endorse promotional activities (e.g the promotion of your sites www.skype-gadgets.com and www.skype-watch.com on chopsticks) where Skype has no control over the domains in question.
Furthermore, whilst we at Skype are always happy to answer questions, may I please request that any further emails are directed to our customer support team at support@skype.net.
Many thanks
Seema Sharma
“ End of Quote. End of www.skype-gadgets.com and www.skype-watch.com
This domain is available.
Current weblog : http://webtown.typepad.com - www.voip-watch.com
Original message here : http://www.webtown.com.my/empty/index.html
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