Lawyers representing the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation have just put the hammer down on a couple of bloggers who were only trying to help send some traffic to the CBC’s Web site.
Bloggers Sarah and Leo assembled a RSS feed for the latest news items offered up on the CBC’s Web site. They were simply helping out fellow Mothercorp fans as the CBC site does not currently offer this functionality.
Apparently the movers and shakers at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation felt that Sarah and Leo were infringing upon their ‘intellectual property’.
To any CBC employees reading PolSpy, here’s what I have to say: Listen up you clueless fucktards, you don’t own any intellectual property. Your ‘corporation’ is funded by and owned by Canadians. What you own, we own. It’s our intellectual property, not yours. If that bothers you then I suggest you goddamn well privatize and get your filthy mitts out of my wallet.
Oh, and sending lawyers after your biggest fans who are doing you a bona fide favour? Incredibly fucking stupid. Stop acting like those idiots over at SOCAN and grow a brain already.
Yes, I’m in a shitty mood today. Glad you noticed.