Ok, this pisses me off. Transportation agencies are going after a website that provides subway map downloads for ipod.
A lawyer for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority sent Bright a terse "cease and desist" letter in mid-September demanding he immediately remove the New York City subway map from his Web site.Another letter followed on Sept. 21 from the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, instructing Bright to take down his BART system map.
Both agencies said copyrights they held to the maps barred anyone from repackaging and redistributing them without permission.
Heavens forbid people can actually use your fucking transportation. In New York, subway maps are free anyways. That's right. You can walk into any subway station and pick up a free subway map. But having convenient access on your ipod, that's heresy!
Comments (2)
Concentrations of power have tendencies to abuse. Common sense is often the first casualty.
Posted by Paramendra Bhagat | October 9, 2005 4:25 PM
Posted on October 9, 2005 16:25
I'm not sure it's so much an abuse of power as it is just incompetence.
Posted by Abhishek | October 11, 2005 10:13 PM
Posted on October 11, 2005 22:13