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Old 03-08-2009, 09:20 PM   #327 (permalink)
Tyche Shepherd
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Originally Posted by Wildefire Walcott View Post
There is some epic fucking drama behind that name change. Linden Lab forced them to change the name because someone who wanted to do a hostile takeover of the SL group filed a real-world trademark application for an already-established outside-USA entity named OWK (the SL sims were run under the auspices of the 'real' OWK and they have lost their in-world right to use their own name.)

Update here.

Seriously, this is one of the more fucked things I have heard of the company doing.
- Yes I was reading the whole thread this morning since the LL legal bump . I forgot to check if the rename had taken place . I love the Femdom argument about the ridiculousness of a slave owning the region in the first place , but yes LL cocked up there IMHO , a stupid move.
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