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

[Banana Balls 5,000+ posts]

I never said I don't steal. In fact, my computer is run on a pirated OS system, but I'm not going to sit here and ***** if any of the artist or companies try to do something about it.

Don't ***** when MS sues you for $250,000 either please.

 

[na_rsx 10+ year member]

The **** are you talking about. Did you think about that before you started typing or did you just let your brain puke on your keyboard?

No, I did not know this was going on for a while, like lugnutz said, its been going on since 2002, OP did not state that.

So relax, your still wrong in many ways, forums actually help dealers, so if they think this is going to help, then there digging a deeper hole.

 

[Banana Balls 5,000+ posts]

your still wrong in many ways

No, you're fucking wrong. They were stealing. End of story

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

This story is all over the web already, Ford's PR dept is gonna probably take a bullet for this one.

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

Don't ***** when MS sues you for $250,000 either please.

I don't even have close to 250k so they can sue me all they want //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[Banana Balls 5,000+ posts]

This story is all over the web already, Ford's PR dept is gonna probably take a bullet for this one.

They should stand their ground. They probably wouldn't be hurting for money if others were not stealing their money.

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

I think im going to drive over to the ford dealership, and steal a car. They're a big multimillion dollar company, they wont miss that.

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

No, I did not know this was going on for a while, like lugnutz said, its been going on since 2002, OP did not state that.
So relax, your still wrong in many ways, forums actually help dealers, so if they think this is going to help, then there digging a deeper hole.

This has been going on since Henry Ford //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif I only found evidence of this legal team practicing this with Ford back to 2002. Any large corporation in America will seek out trademark infringement. This isn't big mean company wants to shut down little guy. They simply want these people to register Ford's trademark.

 

[snfsh79077 10+ year member]

Not sure if this was posted yet but I found out the real story. The owner of the site had been using fords oval trademark and making money off of it.

Here is a quote from the owner of the site.

"A while back I had started making decals such as the old FORD tailgate letters, and offering some other decals for Ranger enthusiasts such as the Ranger windshield banner with the Ford logos on each side of it.

Although it was intended to be used as a way to keep The Ranger Station up and running and not a method of becoming independently wealthy...it was vilolating Fords trademarks.

I have talked to Scott Monty from Ford Motor Company and have agreed to:

1) Stop selling the decals since I do not have a trademark license to sell

2) Agree that the 'Ranger' is a product of Ford.

3) Not display any ads on The Ranger Station that would promote a competitor (Example: Banner ad for the new Chevy Colorado, etc)

4) Not use the site to make disparaging comments about Ford (AKA - Anti Ford Site)

5) Not turn The Ranger Station name over to anyone else.

I believe that's about it. I'm waiting from a letter from their attorney.

In return, Ford will allow us to keep The Ranger Station name and will not require that I pay the $5000.00 that the attorneys were asking for.

Scott went on to tell me that they recognize and support their fan websites and I would suggest that any other website owner/administrator reading this will be OK if they judge themselves on the items I had listed above. If you have ad banners you may want to make sure you have Fords competition filtered out.

I would like to say thanks to those that emailed Ford and spread the word. The attention and support from other enthusiats greatly helped in getting this resolved quickly.

I would ask that anyone who has posted about this on another website link the discussions here and ask that the moderator on that site lock the topic.

I also want to thank the other site owners for their support. "

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

The man got to him //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[davidfre21 5,000+ posts]

RPS seems safe, im not a fan of TRS anyways //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

After everything has come out I am ready to vote in the poll and the vote is OP is a retard.

 

[Banana Balls 5,000+ posts]

I concur with you, Ice

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

I concur with you, Ice

I thurd it.

 

[bumpweLL.nYc 10+ year member]

car companies dont want DIYers