Let’s sue Google
August 14th 2008 09:32 pm
I have an idea for the RIAA: sure Google.
Sure! It would totally work. I mean, you already sued Jesse Jordan for making a search engine, why not sue Larry Page and Sergey Brin too, since, you know, they made a search engine too. And you know what? I can go to Google right now, search for “
Oh wait! See I guess the problem is Jesse Jordan couldn’t afford lawyers to defend his case in court, which he totally would have won. You guys must have realized this and that’s why you settled out of court for his $12,000 of college tuition money, thereby getting your money.
But Google has lawyers. Probably lots of them. Probably good ones too. And for them to come to court and say “fuck you RIAA” would be too easy and all the RIAA would be out would be money, which isn’t really the goal of these random acts of stupidity.
So I guess that’s why Google hasn’t been sued by the RIAA.
The RIAA tries to only sue people who, in their best interest, must settle out of court for whatever money they have, and since the RIAA is paying their lawyers anyway, but now doesn’t have to pay court fees or anything, makes a nice, albeit small profit.
If they sued anybody who would do well to take the case to court (those whose out of court settlement cost would be greater than the court and lawyer fees), the RIAA would lose, probably end up paying money, and get bad press.
Now I understand.
Stupid RIAA, search engines are for everybody.
