Ford is trying to shut down fan based websites...

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Congress had allowed for GM and Chrysler to receive money, not Ford.

I realize that. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

Can you imagne all the feggy Mustang sites that are gonna get wacked?

maybe this is a good thing then.

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

Can you imagne all the feggy Mustang sites that are gonna get wacked?
maybe this is a good thing then.

Maybe since Ford owns the Lions they will shut down their forums as well. We can only hope.

This reminds me. Good luck writing to Ford to get something done. Took 6 years of writing to get them to fire Millen.

 

[BoxdGM 10+ year member]

I realize that. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

i read if everything passes ford will have a 9 billion stand by loan that will be available if needed

 

[na_rsx 10+ year member]

What. They are just trying to get rightfully compensated from the people that have been leeching them for years.

You make no sense, if this was an issue, Ford would have done something a long time ago. Maybe like when it first started, but now that Ford is hurting for money, their going to try to get as much money as they can because they screwed up.

I hope Ford fails, crap like this makes me happy to own a import.

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

You make no sense, if this was an issue, Ford would have done something a long time ago. Maybe like when it first started, but now that Ford is hurting for money, their going to try to get as much money as they can because they screwed up.
I hope Ford fails, crap like this makes me happy to own a import.

This $5000 will really help them.

 

[Dozy_production 10+ year member]

Doing this to save the trademarks, they are.

 

[na_rsx 10+ year member]

This $5000 will really help them.

Hey its one site, if they win this, then every other site will get taxed, and how many of them do you think they are. Every **** car has its own forum, shits gonna hit the fan.

As for the poll, it was a toss up between 1 and 4

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

Hey its one site, if they win this, then every other site will get taxed, and how many of them do you think they are. Every **** car has its own forum, shits gonna hit the fan.
As for the poll, it was a toss up between 1 and 4

Ford deals in billions of dollars. There would need to be over a 100k sites to make this worth something. Besides if anyone bothered to search, this firm apparently has been doing this long before Ford requested any bailout money.

 

[ssackett 10+ year member]

Sad day for Ford..

 

[GreenBook 10+ year member]

Your link's a err404; but yeah, pretty gay. Atta way to keep the people who actually enjoy driving their pieces of crap happy.

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

Also, the title is different then what is actually happened. Ford is going after copyright infringement, which is within every right of the law. If anybody bothered to search, they have done this since at least 2002. They didn't just decide now to do it.

 

[IDSkoT 5,000+ posts]

You make no sense, if this was an issue, Ford would have done something a long time ago. Maybe like when it first started, but now that Ford is hurting for money, their going to try to get as much money as they can because they screwed up.
I hope Ford fails, crap like this makes me happy to own a import.

Hondas are for fegs. At least you could own a decent import... like a Nissan or a Toyota.

And, I understand where Ford is coming from... but, forums are meant to congregate people for a common purpose.

And honestly, no matter how much you want to jest, those forums have a lot of information for DIYers and the like.

The more information about a product, the more someone will want to buy said product. A lot of Mustang Forums are promoting the 2010 Mustang... so the little money the forum owners make is shadowed by how much money the forum is generating for both the publicity of Ford, and for that specific model of car.

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

Actually, Ford is trying to stop the counterfeiting of their corporate logo.

A number of Ford-brand enthusiast sites today revealed that at least one other site, TheRangerStation, has received a letter from a law firm claiming to represent the Blue Oval, demanding that they relinquish any domain names with Ford brands in them, as well as turn over for destruction all merchandise with Ford logos, in addition to demanding $5,000 for trademark infringement. New updates on the issue from Ford reveal that the root cause of the matter is the alleged sale of counterfeit Ford goods, including a range of decals and logos using Ford trademarks.
Speaking with MotorAuthority Ford's head of digital media and communications, Scott Monty, said, "They were offering items for sale on their site, Ford-branded material that was not authorized by Ford." Monty also expressed a personal opinion that the sites' domain names should not be affected by the sale of counterfeit items. The site accused of selling the counterfeit goods has not yet responded on these grounds.

The law firm representing Ford in the matter, Howard Phillips & Andersen, has sent a statement to MustangEvolution, a Ford enthusiast site tracking the development of the story. "Ford is not trying to shut down the entire website, just stop the counterfeiting of its trademarks. If the Ranger Station wants a license it needs to seek one from Ford. But I don’t think Ford will license some of the images, particularly the ***** woman straddling the Ford Blue Oval," wrote attorney Gregory D. Phillips.

Though it hasn't yet been spelled out by Ford's legal department, the issue doesn't seem to lie with the fans' use of the Ford logo, but with the sale of goods bearing that logo, i.e. using Ford's trademark for commercial purposes.

A side-effect of the rapid spread of the news of Ford's legal action against the site is that many other fan sites are worried they could be next - though absent sale of counterfeit goods, the worry is baseless. "This is the last thing we want people to do...these are our fans, these are people that show us good will and are loyal to us and that would probably fall over themselves to buy a Ford product," said Monty. "They're the last people we want to alienate."

Attacking people that choose to support the brand and provide a place for others who share the desire to do so, usually out of pocket or nearly so, despite small merchandising efforts, does seem to miss the mark in protecting the company's interests. In fact, it does direct harm, projecting an image of money-hungry blindness to the people that actually buy their product and a complete disregard for the customer, the enthusiast, and the 'Ford guy' - or gal.

This is a fact that Ford, and in particular Monty, realize all too well. "This is the last PR headache we need right now," he said.

 

[IDSkoT 5,000+ posts]

Actually, Ford is trying to stop the counterfeiting of their corporate logo.

Well, that's their bad then.

I don't think this is the best time to address that (for Ford, at least.)

They should wait when they're not in the shitter financially. But, I guess timing isn't their strong point.