Michael's Press.

It may well help to read this explanation of why I registered harrods.com before reading some of the press articles.

The Early days:

• Book: Internet Culture in Easy Steps.
  This isn't too bad really... I am secretly quite pleased I got before Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf. This thing can be bought here, if you are deranged.

• Martial Arts Newbie Guide.
  I can never really remember why I am credited in here, but what the hell. This is a 1994 version of it, I am sure being old it's a lot better!

• Global IRC Management Framework.
  Shudder... I don't want to remember all this!

Harrods vs. Me:

There was a lot of crap written about the Harrods case, but the press were pretty much in the pockets of Fayed in those days - I suspect things would a lot different if this case were fought now. In an interesting turnaround from The Times branding me a near criminal for registering harrods.com, they had an article last week about how enterprising people were for registering sites such as "queerasfolks.net" to cash in on someone else's name to make money from advertising. It was actually suggesting that people do it.

Anyway, here's a pretty random selection of articles:

• http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/zdnn/0227/zdnn0002.html
  Not really very interesting, in except that Ivan Pope (a chap sueued by BT for the same "crime" as me) isn't exactly defending me here.
• http://www.apnic.net/mailing-lists/apple/1996-08/msg00156.html
  This is the only copy of the Reuters report I can find.
• http://www.mkurrein.co.uk/work/harrods.html
  The Harrods press release on winning the case.
• http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/1460.html
  This isn't too bad an article, as far as being nasty to me goes. It does reference an article in The Telegraph which no longer exists.
• http://www.aardvark.co.nz/n170.htm
  An article from New Zealand, where they probably like me (sheep and all that!). Doesn't really say much though.
• http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/03484.html
  Another article, this one being interesting in that Willie Black appears to be slagging me off. I wouldn't have thought any of the old JANET people would actually believe this whole thing was done as "a scam".
• http://www.scl.org/scl/emag/emagazine/vol7/iss5/vol7-iss5-recent-cases.html
  Doesn't say much.. But there's a mention at the end.
• http://www.scl.org/scl/emag/emagazine/vol8/iss1/vol8-iss1-nick-gardner-art.html
  This is an interesting article, in light of the BAA PLC. vs. baa.com case, which was prosecuted by the same solicitors. In the baa.com case, their continual reference to "50 domain names" was significantly lowered. To be honest, I can't be arsed to read all this. The last thing he wrote about the case changed some months later when I suspect he realised he was being a tad inaccurate and defamatory. There is a lot mentioned in this about "my defence" - I didn't however file any defence, so I am not sure where all this discussion comes from.

BAA PLC. vs. baa.com:

• Evening Standard: Baa! The hunt for airports info is dogged by sheep.
  This article was a year or so before the case, and showed that until BAA PLC decided that they wanted this domain and would take it by force, nobody really thought that the sheep site was attempting to defraud anyone at all.

• Open Directory's "baa.com" archive.
  This is useful because it saves me collecting news stories. Some of the pages hae gone, but this is a decent collection of press about baa.com.

• The Register: Original BAA story.
• The Register: Case Settled.
• The Register: Oops, we were talking crap.

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