Activision files complaint over ModernWarfare3.com * hint* its a troll website.
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[quote]Modern Warfare 3 isn't supposed to kick off until November, but a dispute over a website devoted to the game is already flaring up. According to a report on domain-tracking blog Fusible, Activision is looking to sieze ownership of ModernWarfare3.com through a complaint filed with the National Arbitration Forum.
Activision was not amused when ModernWarfare3.com sent visitors to the official Battlefield 3 site.
Originally registered in March 2009, ModernWarfare3.com bills itself both as "a 100 percent unofficial fan site dedicated to the Modern Warfare series," as well as "a parody of Modern Warfare 3." While the site has for some time openly criticized the Activision shooter as a retread of the series, it drew particular attention recently when it temporarily forwarded all ModernWarfare3.com traffic to the official website of Electronic Arts' competing military shooter Battlefield 3. In its complaint, Activision described the forwarding as retaliation for a take-down notice it sent related to copyrighted content that had previously appeared on the site.
For Activision to win ownership of the site, it would have to show that ModernWarfare3.com is "identical or confusingly similar to" its own trademarks related to the series, that the operator of the site has no legitimate interests for use of the domain name, and it was registered and used in bad faith. The complaint indicates the ModernWarfare3.com owner would be able to retain the name if "making a legitimate noncommercial or fair use of the domain name, without intent for commercial gain to misleadingly divert consumers or tarnish the trademark."
However, Activision is arguing that ModernWarfare3.com ran ads for GameStop and Best Buy, making it a commercial venture, and that the forwarding to a direct competitor's website is sufficient to show the site was run in bad faith. At the moment, the site no longer directs to Battlefield 3's site, and appears to be free of advertising.
In establishing its own claim to the brand, Activision's complaint noted that the publisher has spent more than $24 million in the US alone on marketing the Modern Warfare installments of the Call of Duty series. As of press time, neither Activision nor the admin of ModernWarfare3.com had returned GameSpot's request for comment.[/quote]
[B]Source:[/B][url]http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6323788.html?tag=newsticker%3Bheadline%3B1[/url]
[B]Website in question:[/B][url]http://modernwarfare3.com/[/url]
Usual Activision up to the same old shit.
you should check the website out it gave me quite a chuckle.
The owners can sell the site for a fuckload of money to activison
[quote]Modern Warfare is back. On November 8, 2011, the most over-hyped first-person action series of all-time returns with the copy and paste sequel to the lackluster Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Check out the E3 2011 gameplay demo featuring the Black Tuesday level for a look at the epic fail of the campaign. Pre-Order Call of Duty MW3 Today for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC to secure exclusive bonuses only available online for Modern Warfare 3 fanboys who don't know that Battlefield 3 is the better game.[/quote]
hahahaha
How are they so sure it's registered with proxies?
You can buy domains with secret registration on many sites, i did it 3 years ago on dyndns.
Look at the intel on the site
Modern Warfare 3 Intel
Here is What Gamers are saying about MW3:
Cod is just* like the madden games, same shit everytime. Idk how people can be so excited for an upcoming game they already have
Been there , done that. NEXT! The new kid on the block Battlefield 3. That's where my money is this year. Don't forget in the DLC for MW3 we will probably see maps that every body loves from MW2* game. Just like Robert Bowling says. The guns that people love( the old ones ). Just keeping it real. Repeat of the same old game MW2.
the fact that activision keeps pumping these cod games out every year is very telling. that game is going down the tubes and there trying to make as much money off of it until knowbody buys it anymore. battlefield 3* is gonna be the game of the year and thats a fact
camp of duty MW3 will suck only* 8-12 year olds will buy it
get battlefield 3 instead of that shit that is a game for real men
infinity ward sucks now because they got rid of everyone that made cod 2 and cod 4.
ya i think ill get battlefield3 this* year
just goin off the trailers, bf3 has cod beat. like he said, lighting, audio, graphics, gameplay in bf3 looks to be stepped way the fuck up from bfbc2. mw3 looks pretty much like a dlc for mw2
im switching* to BF3
mw3= mw2 add on
Honestly Call of Duty is getting to the point where every game is sterling the same with no originality and I feel that Battlefield well bring more to the table than MW3. So if Call OF Futu doesn't step it up they might just get wiped out the map. But I gave* up on Call of Duty when MW2 came out
so mw3 is a 60* dollar map pack?
everyone is more exited about* BF3. if not theyre newbs
I thought modernwarfare3.com redirected to BF3's website?
haha that site is awesome, fuck you Activision
Oh man I hope this turns into such a clusterfuck.
I'm not exactly a CoD series fan, nor do I like Activision, but they'd win this case and somewhat legitimately so. It [i]is[/i] "confusingly similar" and does so in "bad taste against the series".
And before you're quick to criticize, it'd be the same as if someone registered halflife3.com some time before it's release and redirected you to a Halo website or something of the sorts.
[quote] and it was registered and used in bad faith.[/quote]
They're boned. And completely legally too.
[editline]16th July 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=STeel;31160602]I'm not exactly a CoD series fan, nor do I like Activision, but they'd win this case and somewhat legitimately so. It [i]is[/i] "confusingly similar" and does so in "bad taste against the series".
And before you're quick to criticize, it'd be the same as if someone registered halflife3.com some time before it's release and redirected you to a Halo website or something of the sorts.[/QUOTE]
But it's okay when it happens to MW3 because everyone has such a raging hatred for it.
the website is so unfunny it hurts
[url]http://modernwarfare4.com/[/url] is taken too. haha.
Poor(rich) butt-hurt Activision...
Dumb law. It's just an assortment of letters that resolve to an IP address.
They shouldv'e instead registered that domain name with something completely irrelevant to video games, this way Activision couldn't prove it's not legitimate, and would have to buy it out
[QUOTE=SomTervo;31160683]the website is so unfunny it hurts[/QUOTE]
its not necessarily about the fact whether the website is funny or not ( i found it funny ) but it's more the fact that Activision appear to be butthurt about it and taking it so seriously when its clearly done to take the piss that's funny.
[QUOTE=Source;31160782]its not necessarily about the fact whether the website is funny or not ( i found it funny ) but it's more the fact that Activision appear to be butthurt about it and taking it so seriously when its clearly done to take the piss that's funny.[/QUOTE]
I guess watching a big corporation feeding the troll is funny enough but the actual website is terribly unfunny.
What if it was registered from overseas?
Quick, somebody go get [url]www.callofdutyblack-ops2.com[/url] and [url]www.callofdutyblackops2.com[/url] as well.
Squatting is illegal, but who gives a fuck when it gets laughs like this.
If I owned the domain, i'd sell it for millions
[QUOTE=triFeral;31161543]If I owned the domain, i'd sell it for millions[/QUOTE]
are you completely daft, nobody's gonna buy it for millions of anything
maybe millions of electrons they'd send you with the "domain siezed" notice
"So MW3 = MW2 60 dollar map pack?"
[QUOTE=kwk;31162190]"So MW3 = MW2 60 dollar map pack?"[/QUOTE]
Essentially, it's the same story on the same engine with nothing new but more gimmicky gameplay that gets old quick, and only appeals to the rock bottom of the gaming community; Prepubescents.
[QUOTE=kwk;31162190]"So MW3 = MW2 60 dollar map pack?"[/QUOTE]
If you've read the leaked storyline for it you'd realize how generic it is.
[QUOTE=Valdor;31162569]If you've read the leaked storyline for it you'd realize how generic it is.[/QUOTE]
Ride in on helicopter with assault rifle, 4 frag grenades and 4 flash grenades and kill people.
[QUOTE=Valdor;31162569]If you've read the leaked storyline for it you'd realize how generic it is.[/QUOTE]
Isn't it that Russia somehow becomes super powerful and can somehow wage and fund a war against every country they don't like as long as the country has an "e" in their name, because Russia fucking hates that letter, then you go rambo and kill them? Story writing at it's finest!
A lot of it was talking about how much better bf3 looks to mordernwarfare. I mean I hate the modern warfare series as much as the next facepuncher but graphics don't make a game.
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