I recently got a phone call (wow, actual voice communication!) from a member of the killersites.com forum, where he was anxious to delete his account from the system because he had used a celebrities first name as his user name. Harmless, right? No, wrong!!
Apparently he was contacted by one of this celebrities minions, where this minion-of-celeb, demanded (under threat of legal action!) that the member terminate the account!
… Yes, threats from a looser celebrity because someone was using their name as a user name on a web design related forum!!
I changed the user name because I don’t want to stress out any member of our community here. But I have to tell you, this really pisses me off.
.. Or better yet, I’m a minor nerd-celebrity of sorts, maybe I should go around the Web threatening to sue people who use my first name on a message board!
Yes, it’s official, no one can use the name: Stefan
Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com
I guess your a not consequential enough, because I still see people who are misusing the name Stafan as if they were authorized.
I’m going to have to fire my legal team!!
Stefan