Preparations for Class Action Against Wikipedia

Preparations for Class Action Against Wikipedia:

"By nat Preparations for a class action law suit against the owners and operators of Wikipedia are underway. I can't figure out whether this is a chilling shot across the bow of any site with user-generated content, or whether it's a timely reminder of the obligations to society that technologists must observe as they invent within that society.

Or, possibly--and I only throw this out as a remote and wild conjecture, a hypothesis (if you will) to be tested against available datum, a brainstorming session 'throw it at the wall and see what sticks' flag to be run up the pole so it may be seen who salutes it--that it's a case of greedy opportunist whiners out to make any quick buck they can from whatever makes the headlines in the last slow news week. Ahem. "