Oh! Oh! Must Read! Top 10 Tech Lawsuits of 2006!

[nightwng2000]

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/12/19/top_10_lawsuits_of_2006/

What's that I hear? "I'm suing TG Daily 'cuz I wasn't voted in the top ten, y'all!"

Ok, I'll behave now. :)

[Demontestament]

Oh man this is a good laugh. My favorites are the girl and the mom sueing myspace because the 14 year old hooked up with a 19 year old and they had sex. Now the girl is claiming rape but to sure Myspace is Ultra-Mega-Gundamn retarded.

and the guy who is sueing people in a chat room for harrassment and AOL for not keeping an eye on the chat room. Oh ****ing grow up you moron.

[nightwng2000]

The one with Sony and the rootkit kinda sounds familiar because of Sony's initial denial. Of course, Sony really doesn't seem to be having much luck with copy protection.

The one about blind internet users though will be an interesting one. How well the ADA can be applied to the internet will certainly make this an interesting test case. Especially since it isn't just any obscure web site but rather the business site of a popular retailer.

[Tollwutig]

Most of these suits are ludicrous, but well we are a sue happy society. I have mixed feelings on the Target lawsuit. While I think the visually impaired should have as much access to the web as possible, I don't think sites should be forced to change their sites. The web is a visual medium, it is very difficult to make a medium which focuses on a single sense to make itself available to everyone.
The problem I see is this lawsuit could force companies to create sites which are less visually pleasing to the majority in order to fulfill the needs of a minority.

Really is asking for a Visually Impaired friendly mirror site too much to ask?

[nightwng2000]

Most of these suits are ludicrous, but well we are a sue happy society. I have mixed feelings on the Target lawsuit. While I think the visually impaired should have as much access to the web as possible, I don't think sites should be forced to change their sites. The web is a visual medium, it is very difficult to make a medium which focuses on a single sense to make itself available to everyone.
The problem I see is this lawsuit could force companies to create sites which are less visually pleasing to the majority in order to fulfill the needs of a minority.

Really is asking for a Visually Impaired friendly mirror site too much to ask?

It's very rare for me to see "HTML site" alongside the other choice "Text-only Site". I used to see them pretty often. Personally, I liked the idea of choosing. Especially if you could bookmark your choice so you went straight to that version when you wanted to.