Comments on: DiggGames.com Shut Down by Digg http://www.pligg.com/blog/64/warning/ Pligg is a Social Netoworking Content Management System that lets many users submit and rate news items. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:16:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: NewsTrends http://www.pligg.com/blog/64/warning/#comment-2156 NewsTrends Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:53:15 +0000 http://www.pligg.com/blog/2006/08/26/warning/#comment-2156 Kevin from digg explained why they're going after trademarks. Sometimes, nice guys lose in the legal world and you have to play by the Legal rules. Here's what heh had to say on teh subject: "A while ago our trademark attorney approached us and was concerned we could lose the name 'digg'. I had no idea this was possible as we had already filed for the trademark. Apparently if you don't enforce the TM (meaning not let other sites use it), we run the chance of losing it... which would suck. The last thing we want is to lose our name. So what to do... We don't want to shut anyone down (not even the clone sites), all we ask is that you avoid using the name 'digg' in your website names/domains. We're looking to see if we have any other options. Digg on, Kevin" Kevin from digg explained why they’re going after trademarks. Sometimes, nice guys lose in the legal world and you have to play by the Legal rules. Here’s what heh had to say on teh subject: “A while ago our trademark attorney approached us and was concerned we could lose the name ‘digg’. I had no idea this was possible as we had already filed for the trademark. Apparently if you don’t enforce the TM (meaning not let other sites use it), we run the chance of losing it… which would suck. The last thing we want is to lose our name.

So what to do…

We don’t want to shut anyone down (not even the clone sites), all we ask is that you avoid using the name ‘digg’ in your website names/domains. We’re looking to see if we have any other options.

Digg on,

Kevin”

]]> By: Lopo de Almeida http://www.pligg.com/blog/64/warning/#comment-1793 Lopo de Almeida Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:04:00 +0000 http://www.pligg.com/blog/2006/08/26/warning/#comment-1793 Digg is not an unique idea. It is really too much based on other's previous ideas. I think that shuting down another site just because it calles it self DIGG (that is a common english word by the way) is the same style of action that Microsoft take against others with is "Windows" trademark dispute. Digg is abotu everything and nothing. Why can't someone else have a Digg site about GAMES? If DiggGames used the logo (or made a new logo too much based on Digg's one) then I see where is the Trademark infringment and I agree. Anything else is the common bullying done by american corporations over other smaller companies. One example of this was the case Microsoft vs. Lindows (now Linspire) where Lindows quit using the name not due to loosing any case against Microsoft but because Microsoft was seeing that they were loosing it so they decided to attack Lindows distributors in Europe. In Portugal, Microsoft Corporation is called MSFT, Ltda because, guess, there was already a Microsoft company here. They use their trademark for their software, neverthless. If DiggGames was mine they will have to fight me a lot -- or buy me -- if they want to shut me down. Buy this way of thinking exposed by Mr Patel, MySpace should be closed because LiveJournal already existed, MSN should be closed because ICQ already existed, Blogger should be closed because, again, LiveJournal already existed, Digg should be closed because Slashdot already existed, and so on and so on... Have a pleaseant day. Digg is not an unique idea. It is really too much based on other’s previous ideas.

I think that shuting down another site just because it calles it self DIGG (that is a common english word by the way) is the same style of action that Microsoft take against others with is “Windows” trademark dispute.

Digg is abotu everything and nothing. Why can’t someone else have a Digg site about GAMES?

If DiggGames used the logo (or made a new logo too much based on Digg’s one) then I see where is the Trademark infringment and I agree. Anything else is the common bullying done by american corporations over other smaller companies.

One example of this was the case Microsoft vs. Lindows (now Linspire) where Lindows quit using the name not due to loosing any case against Microsoft but because Microsoft was seeing that they were loosing it so they decided to attack Lindows distributors in Europe.

In Portugal, Microsoft Corporation is called MSFT, Ltda because, guess, there was already a Microsoft company here. They use their trademark for their software, neverthless.

If DiggGames was mine they will have to fight me a lot — or buy me — if they want to shut me down.

Buy this way of thinking exposed by Mr Patel, MySpace should be closed because LiveJournal already existed, MSN should be closed because ICQ already existed, Blogger should be closed because, again, LiveJournal already existed, Digg should be closed because Slashdot already existed, and so on and so on…

Have a pleaseant day.

]]> By: Amit Patel http://www.pligg.com/blog/64/warning/#comment-1306 Amit Patel Sat, 09 Sep 2006 05:27:59 +0000 http://www.pligg.com/blog/2006/08/26/warning/#comment-1306 Hello, This is another case which says dont play with big websites and make clones of them. Try to be unique in your ideas. Hello,
This is another case which says dont play with big websites and make clones of them. Try to be unique in your ideas.

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