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Last Updated Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:49:51
VANCOUVER - A student in British Columbia who made news around the world when he took on Microsoft over his domain name now stands to make thousands of dollars on the internet auction site eBay.
Mike Rowe, from the Victoria area of B.C., has put his 25 pages of correspondence with Microsoft's lawyers up for auction on eBay, along with an inch-thick document outlining Microsoft's case to the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva.
"I have two copies of these and I will be keeping one for my own personal memoirs," Rowe wrote in the text accompanying the Internet auction item.
By 1 p.m. ET Friday, there were 98 bids for the material. Bidding had soared to over $33,000, with six and a half days to go before the sale closed.
Rowe, 17, found himself at the wrong end of an international copyright complaint a few weeks ago when he refused to give up the address for his web-development internet site, mikerowesoft.com.
When Microsoft told him he had to remove the site from the web and offered to reimburse him $10 for the cost of registering the domain name, he refused.
"I felt sort of insulted at that time because I'd spent so much time designing my website," Rowe told the CBC. "So I guess in spite, I e-mailed them back asking for $10,000, and that didn't go over too well."
Microsoft lawyers fired back a 25-page letter and an inch-thick document outlining their case to the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva.
FROM JAN. 23, 2004: Microsoft and mikerowesoft.com come to terms
Eventually he and Microsoft settled, after news of the dispute broke and millions of people logged on to mikerowesoft.com to check it out.
The company agreed to pay any expenses the high school student incurred during the process, provide him with Microsoft certification training, and give him an Xbox video game system.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
Last Updated Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:49:51
VANCOUVER - A student in British Columbia who made news around the world when he took on Microsoft over his domain name now stands to make thousands of dollars on the internet auction site eBay.
Mike Rowe, from the Victoria area of B.C., has put his 25 pages of correspondence with Microsoft's lawyers up for auction on eBay, along with an inch-thick document outlining Microsoft's case to the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva.
"I have two copies of these and I will be keeping one for my own personal memoirs," Rowe wrote in the text accompanying the Internet auction item.
By 1 p.m. ET Friday, there were 98 bids for the material. Bidding had soared to over $33,000, with six and a half days to go before the sale closed.
Rowe, 17, found himself at the wrong end of an international copyright complaint a few weeks ago when he refused to give up the address for his web-development internet site, mikerowesoft.com.
When Microsoft told him he had to remove the site from the web and offered to reimburse him $10 for the cost of registering the domain name, he refused.
"I felt sort of insulted at that time because I'd spent so much time designing my website," Rowe told the CBC. "So I guess in spite, I e-mailed them back asking for $10,000, and that didn't go over too well."
Microsoft lawyers fired back a 25-page letter and an inch-thick document outlining their case to the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva.
FROM JAN. 23, 2004: Microsoft and mikerowesoft.com come to terms
Eventually he and Microsoft settled, after news of the dispute broke and millions of people logged on to mikerowesoft.com to check it out.
The company agreed to pay any expenses the high school student incurred during the process, provide him with Microsoft certification training, and give him an Xbox video game system.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net