they already have "spiders" working the internet looking for blocks of text as small as four or five "ordered" keywords, to try and ferret out businesses they can afford to sue for phony copyright violations... and to shrink the size even further on what qualifies as usable via the "fair use" doctrine.
They don't even have to sue the big boyz... they can blackmail them to "avoid" litigation over what is on their website.
you do it on a small private website, and you will skate..
quote somebody important on a blog run by hewlitt packard, and they threaten HP with a lawsuit, just to get money from the "deep pockets" of the corporation...
yes... the trial lawyers are doing that.
As the industry builds its mechanism for web based lawsuits and blackmail scams, it will become increasingly cost effective for them to sue more and more of the little guys too... as the cost per suit or "legalized blackmail" via the deprecated "fair use" copyright laws of longstanding, goes down to pennies a hit....
"you used three words from our article, please use the paypal button to donate $50.79 for using the "partial" article on your 'information blog,' or consider that you might face litigation over your violation of copyright...
Yes. This is the fallout from RIAA, the DCMA and the phony "file sharing" lawsuits, used as a trojan horse to insert a very large LEGAL INVASION force.. into the internet.
since riaa is probably now a "trademarked" acronymn... we will eventually be sued at the law, for even discussing them by name... "that will be 500 dollars please.. or else!"