Has anyone else written an email to the supposed lawyer? I did, and this is the answer I received (including the text of my message below it):
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Rob, we never tried to take katie.com, Katie Jones is doing all of this for
publicity. We were always using katiesplace.org. I am also not Katie's
lawyer or anyone's lawyer and Jone's knows that.
I donate 90% of my time to running a charity that protects people online.
But replying only feeds Jone's hidden agenda here.
For that reason, I request that you not share this without my advance
permission.
.and if you look at parryaftab.blogspot.com you'll see the whole post about
our intentions on this all-volunteer organization website, katiesplace.org.
I have always taught children not to believe whatever they read online, too
bad adults don't follow that rule.:-(
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Miles [mailto:rmiles@theskepticalreview.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 2:42 PM
To: parry@aftab.com
Subject: Katie Jones and katie.com
Please stop your campaign to force Katie Jones to give up HER domain,
katie.com. Even since the book by the came out, she has dealt with unwanted
and unwarranted attention. Maybe this all started as a mistake or an
oversight, but to plan to release additional material under that same name
(as reported by Ms. Jones on 7/30/04) is certainly mean-spirited at this
point.
As of 7/27/04 your site lists a new venture with Katie Tarbox named
katiesplace.org. If this means that you have in fact given up on trying to
force Ms. Jones to give up her rightful domain, then I apologize for the
above and offer you my deepest appreciation.
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For the record, I consider any email sent to me to be my own property, regardless of any request or disclaimer saying otherwise.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday August 05, 2004 @02:28PM (#9892455)
Interesting that having made a denial via email that you are asked not to make that response public isn't it - wonder why that could be?
OK lets just assume for a second that Parry is not a lying, fame seeking ambulance chaser and also ignore the fact that as yet Parry has not seen fit to respond to my email (a simple matter of courtesy) regarding her deletion of any blog comment that does not agree with her own.
What I find more interesting is that for somebody that is so strongly denying any attempt to take the katie.com domain name that they felt the need to step in during an online chat on court TV and redirect the questions when asked about said domain name..
Excerpt from courttv.com chat transcript..
"Question from rick: If your website is katiet.com why did you use someone else's website name as the title of your book and ruin their life?
Katie Tarbox: I wish I could say more about this issue. When you sell a book to a publisher, they buy everything including the rights to the book and the title They named it Katie.com and they are the ones that this anger should be directed to. I have no control, and I wish people would understand this. So if you are angry and upset write to Penguin Putnam. They alone have the power to change this.
Question from ParryAftab: Katie, what's next?"
Also of interest is Parry's blatent ignorance of the sensitivity regarding the domain issue as is evident on her own blog page (http://katiecom.blogspot.com) where she uses the domain name as the main page heading.
I'd also be interested to see if Parry is going to deny ever contacting Katie Jones as im sure phone records would prove otherwise.
I haven't read all 800+ messages here, but.. (Score:5, Interesting)
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Rob, we never tried to take katie.com, Katie Jones is doing all of this for publicity. We were always using katiesplace.org. I am also not Katie's lawyer or anyone's lawyer and Jone's knows that.
I donate 90% of my time to running a charity that protects people online. But replying only feeds Jone's hidden agenda here.
For that reason, I request that you not share this without my advance permission.
-----Original Message----- From: Rob Miles [mailto:rmiles@theskepticalreview.com] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 2:42 PM To: parry@aftab.com Subject: Katie Jones and katie.com
Please stop your campaign to force Katie Jones to give up HER domain, katie.com. Even since the book by the came out, she has dealt with unwanted and unwarranted attention. Maybe this all started as a mistake or an oversight, but to plan to release additional material under that same name (as reported by Ms. Jones on 7/30/04) is certainly mean-spirited at this point.
As of 7/27/04 your site lists a new venture with Katie Tarbox named katiesplace.org. If this means that you have in fact given up on trying to force Ms. Jones to give up her rightful domain, then I apologize for the above and offer you my deepest appreciation.
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For the record, I consider any email sent to me to be my own property, regardless of any request or disclaimer saying otherwise.
Re:I haven't read all 800+ messages here, but.. (Score:4, Interesting)
OK lets just assume for a second that Parry is not a lying, fame seeking ambulance chaser and also ignore the fact that as yet Parry has not seen fit to respond to my email (a simple matter of courtesy) regarding her deletion of any blog comment that does not agree with her own.
What I find more interesting is that for somebody that is so strongly denying any attempt to take the katie.com domain name that they felt the need to step in during an online chat on court TV and redirect the questions when asked about said domain name..
Excerpt from courttv.com chat transcript..
"Question from rick: If your website is katiet.com why did you use someone else's website name as the title of your book and ruin their life?
Katie Tarbox: I wish I could say more about this issue. When you sell a book to a publisher, they buy everything including the rights to the book and the title They named it Katie.com and they are the ones that this anger should be directed to. I have no control, and I wish people would understand this. So if you are angry and upset write to Penguin Putnam. They alone have the power to change this.
Question from ParryAftab: Katie, what's next?"
Also of interest is Parry's blatent ignorance of the sensitivity regarding the domain issue as is evident on her own blog page (http://katiecom.blogspot.com) where she uses the domain name as the main page heading.
I'd also be interested to see if Parry is going to deny ever contacting Katie Jones as im sure phone records would prove otherwise.
Re:I haven't read all 800+ messages here, but.. (Score:0)