Atari Targets Retro Community With Cease & Desist 219
svenski writes "Atari User reports that Atari Inc. have begun to target the retro community and have now turned their attentions to atari2600.org, a website first registered in 2000, demanding the domain name be handed over."
Re:Assign Rights to Nolan Bushnell (Score:5, Informative)
Atarisucks.com is already taken :(
It redirects to their website.
Re:Is this what it has come down to? (Score:5, Informative)
I'd argue that trolling as a business model is nastier, in that it usually manifests as a fishing with dynamite approach. But I could certainly be wrong.
Re:But... (Score:4, Informative)
It's a french company formerly known as Infogrames. They purchased Atari, sat on it for a while, realized "Nobody's ever heard of Infogrames," and changed their name.
That was, I believe, in the early 2000's. I worked for Atari briefly in 2003 and got the impression that the name change was fairly recent.
Is this a real site? (Score:5, Informative)
It's even worse than you think! (Score:4, Informative)
They're also sending letters to any hobbyist showing an Atari logo... even in a demo scene production.
http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/186151-ive-got-email-from-atari-today/
Re:He's right. It's called "Estoppel" (Score:5, Informative)
Whole lotta content [archive.org] there....