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In 2003, Mike Rowe created MikeRoweSoft.com and was sued by Microsoft because it sounded too much like Microsoft.com. Rowe lost the case but was given an Xbox as compensation.

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In 2004, Microsoft sued Mike Rowe for the domain MikeRoweSoft.com - They settled for an XBox and a selection of games

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1. Microsoft once sued a high school student named Mike Rowe who registered the domain MikeRoweSoft.com for his part-time web-design business. A settlement was finally reached that included sending the teenager an X-Box in exchange for the domain.

2. Microsoft threatened 17 year old Mike Rowe with a lawsuit after the young man launched a website named MikeRoweSoft.com

3. Mike Rowe was an opera singer. "I joined the opera to get my union card and meet girls"

4. Mike Rowe (of Dirty Jobs fame) received death threats after narrating a Wal-Mart commercial about investing in American manufacturing.

5. Microsoft sued a high school student named Mike Rowe after he registered the domain MikeRoweSoft.com. He eventually gave up the domain for an Xbox (among other things). He later sold legal documents from the case on eBay for $1,037 as "a piece of Internet history."

6. Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe got a job at QVC to win a bet and was subsequently fired 3 different times.

7. When Deadliest Catch first started Mike Rowe had to choose between it and Dirty Jobs in which show to be on camera. The reasoning was "We can't have you telling us stories about six dead fishermen on camera and making a fart joke with your arm in a cow's ass."

8. Microsoft once sued a student named Mike Rowe for creating the domain "MikeRoweSoft.com"

9. Mike Rowe, of *Dirty Jobs* fame, used to be a professional opera singer

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Mike Rowe in his early career was the narrator in a commercial for Wunder Boner. A fish de-boning product.

Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs used to be an amazing salesman for QVC. - source

Mike Rowe is an honorary member of the international society dedicated to Barbershop Quartets, and attributes his entire career to his 10th grade music teacher forcing him to sing in a quartet - source

In 2003 a student called Mike Rowe registered MikeRoweSoft.com and swapped it for an Xbox

Microsoft once sued a guy named Mike Rowe for making the website MikeRoweSoft.com. - source

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Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe was once a professional singer with the Baltimore Opera

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Canadian 12th grader Mike Rowe was threatened legal action by Microsoft for owning MikeRoweSoft.com - they settled (no money) and he gave the vast majority of the money he received from people to a children's hospice

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Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs use to be a professional opera singer.

Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe gave a TED talk in Silicon Valley, and it was fantastic.