As documented this past weekend, the Associated Press has sent a cease and desist letters to a variety of blogs and folks on the interwebs for quoting and linking to their articles. The basis for such claims: copyright infringement.
The move is about as non-sensical as a book publisher suing blogs/forums because their readers are discussing one of their books online. Or suing them because one reader put in a link to where the book can be purchased on Amazon. If anything, these activities reinforce the value of the original intellectual property.
Are these the side-effects of a luddite executive crowd making incredibly idiotic moves as a result of their incapacity to grasp essential concepts? Or is this perhaps the work of overenthused lawyers doing the only thing their lobotomized bodies allow them to? I do wonder.