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All of these sequels should never have been made, because they have the effect of diminishing the original, all for the sake of more money.

The Matrix was ripped off from a science fiction writer who submitted her script to the Wachowski Brothers in the 1980's. An FBI investigation and court proceedings decided that they had indeed stolen her work and awarded her damages. In fact, thirty minutes of footage was edited out of the original because these segments were verbatim plagiarism of the original work. It's no wonder the sequels were crap- the brothers actually wrote the scripts themselves.

Nope. That was wrong. The case was just recently heard in Court, and it was dismissed without any actual proceedings, due to negligence by Sophia Stewart and her lawyers. Another AC posted the reference here.

Well, too bad, because she didn't win:

http://www.slccglobelink.com/media/paper442/news/2 005/07/20/Entertainment/Sophia.Stewarts.Day.In.Cou rt.Ends.With.Dismissal.For.The.mother.Of.The.Matri x-963083.shtml

The Wachowski brothers stole the whole idea

Well, it says here, here and here that she did.

Or what about the Mother of the Matrix, who will be recovering damages from both the Matrix series and the Terminator series? It's got copyright infringement, racketeering, FBI investigations that discovered "more than 30 minutes had been edited from the original film to avoid copyright penalties," and more.

We're talking gross receipts of over 2.5billion dollars.

The jury is still out, but the Wachowski brothers have been accused of plagiarizing a woman's material for the Matrix series.

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Once the Rip-off-ski brothers get their hands on this one, they will most assuredly claim the work is entirely their own.

Just like The Matrix...