On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 08:11:35 -0500, "J. Clarke"
wrote:

Greg wrote:

Bobby Pickett should sue the whole damn lot of them. He copyrighted
"Monster Mash" in 1962

Who holds the copyright to Steppenwolf's "Monster"? (Please dear Lord let
it be somebody big enough to buy Monster Cable outright out of petty cash
and fire the whole lot for cause then sue them personally for everything
their sharks-on-a-leash can think of so they don't get away with a pile
from their stock options).

Shame on Disney--Disney's big enough to stomp them flat, but instead they
settled.

With corporations, it isn't a matter of right or wrong -- it's a
negotiation and budget analysis. If it would cost $x to stomp Monster
cable flat, but they could settle for a smaller $y, then they pick the
smaller number. If the analysis had shown the other way, you can bet that
monster cable would now be a formerly registered company. Companies like
monster also know how other corporations work, and attempt to set their
extortion rates such that they come out on the winning side. One recent
case where this appears to have gone horribly awry is SCO's attempt to take
down Linux -- but that was probably driven by some hidden money from
elsewhere (purely speculating of course).


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Now we'll just use some glue to hold things in place until the brads dry

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