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Universal Music Sues MySpace
Grooves writes "Universal Music is suing MySpace for copyright infringement. Universal threatened to sue YouTube before the
Google acquisition was announced, so now it looks like they have moved on to the next target. Ars speculates that Universal is really after a piece of the action. 'On the morning of the
Google-YouTube deal, Universal — along with Sony BMG and CBS — signed
a licensing agreement with YouTube. If MySpace were to sign a similar agreement with the label, there is little doubt that the lawsuit would disappear.'"
Wow. More myopic IT people. If some of you guys would read about things OTHER than IT, you'd realize that this stuff happens every single day in all industries, all over the world. These lawsuits are in no way, shape, or form, unique. The sports companies (they're not commissions... they're private companies that are treated like public institutions) are very, very sue-happy.
The fact that it happens everywhere makes it okay? A bunch of "myopic" IT people see a pattern as their/our minds are trained to do and point it out. Should it be ignored simply because it happens in every industry?
Change has to begin somewhere and for the last couple of decades us IT folk seemed to have been able to affect much change in society. But of course, what would us nearsighted geeks be able to figure out anyhow? All we did was build a communications network that spans the globe and allows even the most insignificant person to have access to information that less than a generation ago was the domain of governments and billionaires. What the heck would we know? I can only wish that we were as smart and well informed as you are.
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Unknown
#1 should come after #6, or IBM would be on the bad list.