Knowing

[Molten Prominence]

Flat The popcorn question was rhetorical. I know why the bastards do it.

[Flatulance]

Flat The popcorn question was rhetorical. I know why the bastards do it.

LOL sorry man i insulted your intelligence, for that I apologise. But is it pretty funny.

[Lores]

Fox News Columnist Pays Big Price for Reviewing a Pirated Movie
Published: April 5, 2009
Roger Friedman, an entertainment columnist for FoxNews.com, discovered over the weekend just what Rupert Murdoch means by “zero tolerance” when it comes to movie piracy.

On Friday, the film studio 20th Century Fox — owned by the News Corporation, the media conglomerate ruled by Mr. Murdoch — became angry after reading Mr. Friedman’s latest column. (Movie bloggers had started opining about it late Thursday, alerting the studio.) The subject was “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” a big-budget movie that was leaked in unfinished form on the Web last week.

Mr. Friedman posted a minireview, adding, “It took really less than seconds to start playing it all right onto my computer.”

The film studio, which enlisted the F.B.I. last week to hunt the pirate, put out a statement calling Mr. Friedman’s column “reprehensible,” among other things. Then the News Corporation weighed in with its own statement, saying it asked had Fox News to remove the column from its Web site. (It did.)

Over the weekend, the Web site Deadline Hollywood Daily reported that Mr. Friedman had been dismissed. Sure enough, on Sunday came a revised statement from the News Corporation. “When we advised Fox News of the facts,” the statement said, “they promptly terminated Mr. Friedman.”

Couldnt resist::::: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/busin ... .html?_r=1

[Toucan]

i cant be arsed moving this to the wolverine thread

[Molten Prominence]

The guy was pretty stupid to do that.

[Lores]

French lawmakers reject Internet piracy bill
Japan's leader unveils ambitious growth plan
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday 08th April, 10:43:56 PM




PARIS - French lawmakers unexpectedly rejected a bill Thursday that would have cut off the Internet connections of people who repeatedly download music or films illegally.

The bill would have also created the world's first government agency to track and punish those who steal music and film on the Internet.

The music and film industry had supported the bill, aimed at boosting revenue for their struggling sector and cracking down on illegal downloading. Critics said it would be too tough to apply and encroach on freedoms.

The Senate had approved an earlier version of the bill. New measures were added in the lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, which passed it last week after a month of contentious debate.

On Thursday, lawmakers from both houses met to approve the final wording. The bill had widely been expected to pass, and few people showed up to take part in the vote, apparently assuming it was a foregone conclusion.

Instead, when the near-empty National Assembly held a vote, the bill was rejected by a vote of 21-15. Most of those voting were opposition Socialists, who had opposed the measure from the outset.

"It's an immense joy," said Socialist legislator Patrick Bloche.

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090409/ ... t_piracy_7

[Toucan]

got bored halfway through the ads, whats your point caller?

[Lores]

What ads? No point just bored atm. Seems there's only 4 of us on here so Im taking some liberties.

[Flatulance]

I got ;lost on this one, and also got bored, i saw paris and socialist couldnt be botered reading it , althou I did try, got bored half way throush and realised i would nead to read it again and gave up. Give us a laymans terms.