just imagine what the world would look like if everyone(private person or company) exercised all the things they can lawfully do at all times.
Prince Harry and Meghan took my Instagram name
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#112The concept of royalty in 2019 is so repugnant. Fuck the crown and their hundreds of years of theft from the people.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Blizzard accounts are Unique only in that they have a unique number appended to the end. For example there can be many 'eeeeeeeeeeeee' accounts, but only one 'eeeeeeeeeeeee#1432'. The games only show 'eeeeeeeeeeeee' during play. https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/75767
Discord takes this approach as well and it seems to work fine there. I tend to like the approach Valve takes with Steam, which is to completely separate the "account name" (unique, unchangeable) from the "display name" (non-unique, change more or less as often as you want).
It is kind of weird that the account name is unchangeable since it's really only visible to the account holder and not tied to anything else. I agree that it should be unique since it's a sign-on credential but it really ought to be a label for the account number.
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#114No guilty party in this tale. But don't see how you can now use that name without having some social justice warrior somewhere foaming at the mouth with righteous indignation.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have to agree that it's the better option. Certainly not a 100% fail-safe solution – I see people already listing domains that were seized for various inexcusable reasons – but the Nissan.com case [0] (Nissan the car company vs. Mr. Nissan the run-of-the-mill computer sales guy) comes to mind as a classic (and fascinating) counterexample. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_vs._Nissan_Compu...
Madonna Ciccone famously thefted the Madonna.com domain away from Dan Parisi on the ridiculous basis that she somehow magically had a deserving claim on the domain due to her trademark of "Madonna" related to "entertainment services and related goods." https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2000/d200...
>The only plausible explanation for Respondent's actions appears to be an intentional effort to trade upon the fame of Complainant's name and mark for commercial gain. That purpose is a violation of the Policy, as well as U.S. Trademark Law.
>[...] In the Sting decision there was evidence that the Respondent had made bona fide use of the name Sting prior to obtaining the domain name registration and there was no indication that he was seeking to trade on the good will of the well-known singer.
>Because the evidence shows a deliberate attempt by Respondent to trade on Complainant's fame for commercial purposes, we find that Complainant has satisfied the requirements of Paragraph 4(a)(iii) of the Policy.
She got the domain because he couldn't bring up a single non-Madonna-the-Singer reason for plopping $20,000 down to buy the domain.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
"would you give up your account name" "No" "We have changed your account name" Is 10x worse than "we have changed your account name". If you're going to do something and there aren't any alternatives don't act like it's a question unless an extremely high ratio will say yes.
What about "would you give up your account name" "No" "Ok fine, I'll have to find a new name. Have a nice day sir.". This story pretty much sounds like “All animals are equals but some are more equals than others”[1] to me. [1]Georges Orwell Animal Farm (his best book IMO)
Isn't the whole premise of royalty that we are explicitly not equal?
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
> instagram.com/sussexroyal is a much more memorable URL than instagram.com/y2q9g6uo Since there are a limited number of memorable names available, anyone late to the party gets stuck with non-memorable names. Why not even the playing field?
Most social networks would see rewarding early adopters as a benefit rather than a drawback. Besides which, TheThreeWordName or JohnBSmith1982 is still a lot more memorable than a random alphanumeric string. As another person said further down, it's why we have domain names rather than IP addresses. Sure, the way in which they're distributed might be suboptimal, but not nearly as suboptimal as making everyone have to…
> Most social networks would see rewarding early adopters as a benefit rather than a drawback.
But in this particular case, they weren't the early adopters...
The real "early adopter" was robbed of his name, for a (imho) is a lame excuse.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is absolutely not clear. How does someone who has @apple and posts pictures of apples infringe on Apple, Inc's trademark?
I didn't say that they would be infringing on Apple, Inc's trademark and I don't think that. I only think that in disputed ownership, based on instagram's purpose of providing a communication platform, the rightful owner would be Apple, Inc, not someone who happened to register it first. And they have a way of determining who the rightful owner , to them, is. Clearly the definition of rightful owner isn't universal,…
This is bootlicking. Private companies don't own the English language.
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#119A while back, an Instagram employee stole the handle from my buddy’s wife. The only reason he got it back was because he had enough clout in the design community that he was able to get some press about it: https://medium.com/@behoff/they-say-nothing-will-change-5c54...
Josh Williams had a startup bought, became a tech exec at Facebook, and hijacked my two letter instagram name that I had since 2012 because he wanted the vanity of @jw on every thing he can get his grubby hands on.
Thanks a lot Josh Williams you thief: http://instagram.com/jw
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Discord takes this approach as well and it seems to work fine there. I tend to like the approach Valve takes with Steam, which is to completely separate the "account name" (unique, unchangeable) from the "display name" (non-unique, change more or less as often as you want).
It is kind of weird that the account name is unchangeable since it's really only visible to the account holder and not tied to anything else. I agree that it should be unique since it's a sign-on credential but it really ought to be a label for the account number.
Just because it’s relevent... although steam officially states that the account name is unchangeable; if you contact support with a good reason and get the right person they can and do change your account name to another free one of your choice.
I have uh personal reasons for having done this and I know of others who have as well.
I’m not sure why they don’t roll it out more wisely - though I can say it did cause a couple of bugs until I signed out and back in on every steam device.
Each steam account does have atleast 3 internal unchangable account numbers that are exposed through APIs for developers to integrate with and use for things such as enforcing bans etc.