God I hate rippers.

Click here to view.

They have also ripped Gant MSN - calling it Aqua MSN but even using Rolando's screenshot.

People like them disgust me.

Advanced Messenger Plus seems not to be the same quality of Messenger Plus and costs $14.95 to use when the trial is up! They could have at least called it something different.

I don't like them having the same name with Advanced on the front, and never have, it implies that their version is an advanced version of Messenger Plus. People think MP and AMP software is made by the same person.

I don't know where the law stands on this, but with their name being an obvious rip off of Messenger Plus, can't legal action be taken.

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Originally posted by Anubis
I don't know where the law stands on this, but with their name being an obvious rip off of Messenger Plus, can't legal action be taken.

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Originally posted by Lee Jeffery
Patchou only has copyrights on MsgPlus! and Messenger Plus! (not without the !) so i dont think he can do anything about it

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I do remember a while back about 2 years ago, when Patchou first found out about this and to my knowledge shut them down.

From what I have heard, Advanced Messenger Plus has all the features of Messenger Plus! Its annoying that someone is trying to rip off the greatest program ever created.

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Originally posted by Patches
Its annoying that someone is trying to rip off the greatest program ever created.

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Originally posted by Patches
God I hate rippers.

Click here to view.

They have also ripped Gant MSN - calling it Aqua MSN but even using Rolando's screenshot.

People like them disgust me.

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Originally posted by Stigmata
i like how it says aqua msn and it says gant msn in the screen shot

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Originally posted by ShawnZ
Im sorry buy incase you havent noticed thats a fake site that tries to give you viruses using ActiveX.

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Of course I don't get out Stigmata, I am a professional geek.

Apart ActiveX - I don't use IE, I use Firefox. So ActiveX doesn't apply to me.

same here which is one reason I use firefox...it keeps me safe from stupid things like that...

I contacted Microsoft about that site!

Bah, that's a cliché dodgy site, try tracerting it and watch your query be redirected around the planet several times, and the IP address doesn't appear in any public whois database. It's probabally somewhere in Lithuania, probably hidden in the bottom of some basement of an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere.

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Originally posted by Anubis
in the middle of nowhere.

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Originally posted by Lee Jeffery
Patchou only has copyrights on MsgPlus! and Messenger Plus! (not without the !) so i dont think he can do anything about it

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Originally posted by Patchou @ [url
http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=36587&pid=357953#pid357953]I[/url] have a trademark on "Messenger Plus!" which means that I can legally challenge anyone using this name, even without the exclamation point.

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Originally posted by A. Madsen
    quoteriginally posted by Patchou @ http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=36...d=357953#pid357953
    I have a trademark on "Messenger Plus!" which means that I can legally challenge anyone using this name, even without the exclamation point.

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Fs.. you people

All the links point to the exact same place, which is not only a ripoff trying to charge you for nothing but it will probably send you some virus as the download once you DO pay :/

Look in your status bar people! all the links point to http://www.anewmessenger.com/download.php?id=MSN_WW !

yes I had realised that..lol

Hm.

Well I guess if Patchou would sue them, he could win. (atleast here in Germany )

We just had the case Google Gmail vs. G-mail and it seems that, Daniel Giersch, the guy who registered the german trademark on "G-Mail...und die Post geht richtig ab." won, atleast he pushed through a temporary injunction against Gmail and Google Germany had to rename their "Gmail" into "Google Mail". Now everyone from Germany who wants to register a new account gets @googlemail.com addresses.

ya i seen this sitew a while ago and thought it was horrible, absolutely pathetic what they do

LMFAO!!! well IE7's Phishing filter doesnt work on tat site yet

It's all dodgy:

T & C

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5. You will be responsible for the telephone costs derived from accessing our contents. The connection kit will call a special telephone number. The call price is 1.50 British pounds per minute (VAT included). There.s a £20 limit per call (VAT included). You'll connect to 0909 7927678 number.


I think its just a porno site cover up tbh

so has Patchou read this thread yet?

I told him about this thread. He knows about the website and stuff and plans on taking actions sometimes

Good.

nice to know. I'm happy that can be taken care of..Microsoft responded to me today...told me I had to send it directly to the msn messenegr team..lol so I did so and now I'm waiting for a response.

Bah, its not the only dodgy range they offer;
P2P scams
pr0n scams
Computer games scams.

And btw, I wouldn't go on the website in question if you use Internet Explorer, due to the fact its trying to catch out ActiveX exploits on users.

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And btw, I wouldn't go on the website in question if you use Internet Explorer, due to the fact its trying to catch out ActiveX exploits on users.

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