HW: Come on guys...

[Richard Lockwood]

Just my two penn'orth...

IIRC, Andy had hawkwind.com up and running before Mission Control, and a
long time ago (coinciding with the release of Mission Control maybe?)
removed any reference to the site being the "official" site.

The was a court case recently in the US where Bruce Springsteen failed to
have the domain name brucespringsteen.com returned to him, as the domain
name was being used as a small Bruce Springsteen fan site, rather than being
"squatted".

So, given the precident of the Bruce Springsteen case, Andy is perfectly
legally entitled to the domain name - however knowing Andy he'd have handed
it over for use with Mission Control if he'd been asked, but as far as I'm
aware, he wasn't asked, and it's not registered to him in person anyway.

As has been said before, Andy's been caught in the crossfire here and really
doesn't deserve ANY flak for this.  From ANYONE.

Cheers,

Rich.

>
> Steve Litchfield writes:
>
> > Come on guys, let's have some common sense prevailing here....
> >
> > Andy: you're a nice guy, I know, but in this case you *were* rather
> > overstating the official status of 'Welcome to the future'. And
> of course
> > Hawkwind should be allowed to have www.hawkwind.com back if they really
> > want it - they're the band and we're just fans - I'm sure
> they'll pay any
> > expenses incurred? *Please* reinstate WTTF on a different URL and both
> > Hawkwind and the rest of us who run fan sites will all link to it on day
> > one.
>
> Seconded. Let's settle all this crap as adults and get back to the
> music.
>
> FoFP
>