Comments on: Suing Google for Helping You Make Money?

By: Allan Beatty

Allan Beatty — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:56:48 +0000

It's the same old lazy entitlement "do it for me" mentality we see all over the place these days. Another internet-related example was the deep-linking case. In both cases, a publisher wanted their web site to work differently than web sites normally do, but were too ignorant or lazy to work out how to make it happen themselves, so they turned to the courts to make it everyone else's problem.

By: Jason Briggeman

Jason Briggeman — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:57:29 +0000

Isn't it obvious that if you bring suit for $1 million or even $30,000 per day in damages and you win, that you do quite a bit better than if you get a few extra clicks on some articles?

By: KipEsquire

KipEsquire — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:05:28 +0000

My penchant for using Kansas City (Kansas, not Missouri) and Salt Lake City as hypotheticals is an inside joke and is not intended to raise hackles.

P.S. You left out the Matthew Limon travesty.

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:56:12 +0000

I've read your blog for a few months now, and I really like it. But if you're going to insult those of us from Kansas City, at least do it on something provable, like the Kansas side habitually reelecting Sam Brownback, or passing a bigot amendment with a 70% majority, or the Missouri side pouring $10k/pupil into the Kansas City, Missouri school district and still having it produce some of the lowest test scores in the nation.

I've spent 90% of my life in KC. The only farm animal I've ever been close enough to touch is a horse, and that was during a family vacation in Hawaii. The only cornfields I've ever seen have been from inside a car driving on a highway (outside of the city, I might add).

We're certainly not the culture center that New York is, but we're hardly the toothless, tobacco spittin', redneck corn farmers you make us out to be.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:28:39 +0000

The issue is that the law and reality are, as often is the case, at odds?

More generally, cynically: just because a person or an entity has a legal right to be exercised or protected doesn't mean that the exercise or protection of that right is the correct thing to do. This, of course, is anathema to the lawyers that counsel companies.

But it makes for easy pickings for bloggers.

By: doinkicarus

doinkicarus — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:28:44 +0000

I read that article yesterday – I just figured I was missing something.

Glad to see others are as dumbfounded as I am.