How not to make friends by bullying F1 website over GP2 & 3

[John S]

Take down logos, oh and publish this puff for GP3 says email to respected Pitpass.com. Unbelievably bad PR is the kind way to describe this controlling approach by FOM's minions, outrageous bully boy tactics is the more obvious interpretation. Good on you Pitpass for telling them to stick it where the sun don't shine.

There must be a following for GP2 & 3 but how many of us really feel the need to keep up with the series? Surely these lesser formula need all the help they can get, so can alienating the likes of Pitpass.com serve any useful purpose?         

 http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=42659

[Scott]

 

FOM still just don't get the internet.  Logos that link are like gold, especially when you don't have to pay for them, and especially on such a popular site as PitPass.  Time to boot out the old farts (or replace them with our old farts, who clearly understand and embrace the internet - I'd love to see Bernie hunt down an F1 stream like Cos and Dare can) and lawyers and bring in some keeners who have imagination.

 

[cosworth151]

Free advertising and a link from a very popular website. Horrors!

These jokers really don't have a clue.

[lkjohnson1950]

What you have here is the Bernie mindset: It's my property and you can't use it unless you pay me. There have been other examples: R/C car bodies are labeled with names like DNA-2 because Audi wants big bucks if you call it an Audi. And they have to alter it just enough so it doesn't look exactly like an Audi. The joke is that DNA stands for Definitely Not an Audi. In model railroading, Union Pacific announced a few years back that if you wanted to sell a replica of one of their paint schemes, you had to pay them. How much did they make off this scheme? Was it worth alienating an entire community of people who really care about trains? God help them if they should lose a buck. They even went so far as to force a photographer to stop selling calendars of pictures he took, if they were pictures of UP engines! Greed reigns and we all lose.

Lonny

[Canada Darrell™]

Good on Pitpass for telling them to shove it. Heh, I especially liked the part where they told the guy that the last forum post about GP2 was over 2 months ago...teehee.

Meanwhile, Facebook successfully got a patent on the word "face"....seriously.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/23/patent-office-agrees-to-facebooks-face-trademark/

[Wats-on]

"Remove the logo of GP3 and please show the interview about GP3?" What the f*ck?

This whole e-mail correspondence from the FIA / FOM is nothing less then ridiculous.

[Williamsfan]

Well done to Pitpass for making this stand.  Without websites like them bringing fans news on the series, it will get very little coverage and fewer people will be able to follow easily what is going on.  FOM are pathetic in doing this.