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Disney Blames Apple For Music Piracy
Vishniac writes "It looks like Disney CEO Michael Eisner is accusing Apple in part for fostering music piracy, particularly with its 'Rip, Mix, Burn' campaign. Testifying before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, Eisner said that the ad suggests to people that 'they can create theft if they buy this computer.' Apple? iMac? Impossible."
I blame Microsoft. They allow Napster to work. The RIAA should sue Microsoft. Ok.. I confess, this is a lame first post attempt. :P
... I could accuse Disney of promoting the idea that not wearing pants is okay. There is Disney propoganda that dates back as far as World War 2 of Donald Duck clearly not wearing pants. Thanks to Disney, people are learning left and right that not wearing pants is ok.
"Derp de derp."
Because oxygen facilitates computer piracy by allowing pirates to breathe, the DMCA will be outlawing this harmful gas as a copyright protection device.
"We're pretty sure there won't be any more piracy once we've removed all oxygen, destroyed the earth's atmosphere and made it completely unliveable for humans," a DMCA spokesman said. "The day we can go forward on this project will be a great day for corporate America."
Until all oxygen can be removed from the planet, all people caught breathing will be given Cease and Desist orders, and possibly incarcerated before they have a chance to run home and burn CDs.
During a discussion about this innovative new form of justice, George Bush stated that he is considering a similar plan to handle terrorists. "We will not be held hostile by terrorists, nor people who harbour terrorists, nor innocent civilians of countries that harbour terrorists, nor those chemical elements that terrorists need to survive."
"If you're breathing, you're either a terrorist, or you're aiding a terrorist by breating. Breathing is un-American." When reminded that the original question was about software piracy, Bush said that pirates shouldn't breathe either because it makes them a bigger threat on the high seas.
When asked if he himself had ever breathed, George Bush said that as all breathers were anti-American, and that he was most assuredly not anti-American, of course he has never breathed.
"Not like that hippy Clinton," one of Bush's entourage reportedly mentioned. "We all know that he inhaled."
Apparently, an informal polling of people with any intelligence on the subject said that removing oxygen to combat terrorism was not a good idea. When asked to comment on that poll, Bush laughed and said, "When has intelligence ever stopped Americans from doing what we need to do?"
1) Rip, Mix, Burn is a cool tagline and picking on it makes better press than attacking parts of an operating system many people still haven't heard of
2) It's Microsoft's job to take on the Linux folks not Disney's. There are clear divisions of labor in the Illuminati.
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Yes but there's always a library!
Aha!
I've always suspected that my librarian was in reality one of those Pirates®, swilling rum, plundering booty with raised cutlasses while they make innocent civilians, like those depicted in Disney cartoons, walk the plank over shark infested waters!
Soon, they'll probably be running Rogue, Outlaw, Unamerican Apple Macintosh computers!
"Provided by the management for your protection."
Weird. I seem to always get a funny smell after I "rip it."
Michael's just pissed off because Shrek's been downloaded more times in one day than the Little Mermaid II, Tarzan, and that Sleeping Beauty thingamacrappy-sequel all rolled up in one really putrid sack with a ribbon on top. I'm sure after all those months he's spent hearing Mickey go on and on about how Minnie's riding his arse for not bringing home the bacon, Mr. Eisner's had just about enough.
The people at the Mousehouse had better whip him up an extroverted and irascibly witty talking trashcan along with a shy, yet very good-hearted dancing toilet plunger who yearns to be spitshined, so he can set out on some sort of adventure in which he sings and dances Disney's way back to decent animated features.
Ah, who am I kidding? They'd be better off just hiring Dreamworks to do it for them.
have a looksee at Insulting Partners Is Fun on AtAT. that is probably the best written artical on the subject i could find ;)
Don't call me back. Give me a call back. Bye. So yeah. But bye our, well, but alright we are on a shirt this chill.
Of course the iPod is a piracy device - who wouldn't want to shell out $350 for an iPod so they can avoid having to buy a few $15 CD's? Uhm hmm.
Umm, it's just as easy on my PC. I just install Adaptec Easy CD Creator, reboot after it installs the necessary SCSI drivers, download and install the latest service pack for it, then uninstall it and install an earlier one when I discover that it has incompatibilities with Windows 2000, then do a Test burn just to ensure that Adaptec has correctly detected the data extraction speed of my cdrom, and then voila, I can copy the music cd! Ok, maybe you have a point.
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Disney CEO Michael Eisner blames Microsoft for allowing children access to rampant pornography. Through their technology cleverly named "Internet Explorer," children of all ages are easily given access to hoards of pornography. In addition, their tagline "Where do you want to go today?" has already been answered by many children to the words of "To the bathroom... I'll be right back" and "To take a long shower." This can only serve as proof that Microsoft is using pornography to corrupt little children's minds. Eisner said that the propaganda suggests to people that 'they can easily perform self-pleasure if they buy a computer with Windows XP. We must stop this travesty now.'
I replaced my old iMac partly to get this fancy CD burner and the iTunes software. If only I had known I was creating theft by making copies of my CDs and rearranging the tracks without permission, I would never have bought it.
But on the other hand, if I didn't buy the Apple computer, my $1300 would be sitting in my savings account, denying the government rightfully-deserved tax revenue (or even worst, I could've put it in my Roth IRA! Only communists use Roth IRAs to deny the government tax revenue!!).
I don't know what to do! Should I take the computer back and then turn myself into the authorities? Please, won't Bill Gates or Mickey Mouse come on TV and tell me what to do! Or N*SYNC could write a song about it so I'll know what to think! Help! Thinking is hard!
Just an innocent attempt at humor considering today's topics.
Come here, So I may brain thee!
Or they could hire George Clinton again and have him bust out from behind the screen, distribute flashlights and then call the drones up to The Mothership of Funk.
Pixar to Eisner: "Fine! We'll build our own studio! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the studio and the blackjack!"
Then you could change your slogan to "Bite. My. Shiny. Metal. Ass."
Heh.
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
Wouldn't "Load, Aim, Fire" be a more apt analogy? There's nothing inherently illegal about "Rip, Mix, Burn", just as there's nothing inherently illegal about a firearm.
Yeah, Apple is a real threat to the music industry. That's why they gave them a grammy!
PC users go to Disneyland
;)
Mac users made Disneyland.
So if the saying is true then Mac users already work for Disney and therefore have no rights, so they should stop stealing and get back to work and earn that bowl of rice a day.
I prefer to take action that use these TOOLS for bad purposes.
Eisner is a tool with a bad purpose.
I'm a 2000 man.
'they can create theft if they buy this computer.'
I made a look at the artlce, and created a stare in disbelief as Eisner established a speak that built an annoying and built a trample of my fair use rights, brewing a pissed me off.
don't forget the priest with the erection in the little mermaid, the "SEX" smoke in the lion king, and aladdin telling kids to "take off your clothes."
yeah, stamp out piracy, but don't stop all those disney execs from have those 11-year-old boys over for their special little "sleepovers." these guys are some sick fucks!
http://adbusters.org/campaigns/flag/nyc/ fun latest incedent