Wal-Mart's videos

I don't understand how this happened, but apparently all the footage from security cams in wal-mart over the past 30 years was not owned by them, but rather by a different company. Wal-Mart wouldn't pay enough to the company to own the stuff, so it has been made available to everyone.

Wow, that's extremely short-sighted of Wal-Mart. I can't wait to see how many lawsuits will come out of this. The Waltons should have shelled out the bucks--they can afford it.

...and yet, I understand where they were coming from. I mean, the company is now charging $250/hour to look at the footage? It seems like they aren't all warm fuzzy feel good people either. It remains to be seen if this will hurt Wal-Mart, though.