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Disney Blames Apple For Music Piracy

Posted by pudge on from the ripping-is-only-for-pirates dept.

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."

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  1. Cool by Sick+Boy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I dig the apple-ified title bar for the apple story. Of course, now Rob's going to get sued for stealing Apple's look and feel as Apple gets sued for mentioning that you can make mix cds.

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  2. Re:Following this logic... by NanoGator · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Thanks for sucking the fun out of my joke. Everybody knows how being literal makes everything funny.

    "What did the dog say when his neighbor stepped on his tail?"

    "Err, how did a dog learn how to talk?"

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  3. Re:Following this logic... by NanoGator · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Donald Duck was not wearing shorts. Although I suppose he could have been wearing down boxers...

    In any case, you know what I was talking about.

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  4. Re:Disney? by JPriest · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Britney Spears was from the Mickey Mouse club :)

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  5. Re:Following this logic... by turbosquid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Screw Pants!!!

  6. sosumi by TheoFish · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    sosumi

  7. Your Momma by KFury · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Also, having a stromg maternal figure is bad.

    Name three Disney animated classics where the lead character *has* a mother, and that mother is anything more than a simpering non-entity.

    What is Disney trying to say about family values?

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  8. Walt Disney: by locoluis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Making fun of people's disabilities since the 30's.

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  9. I like the new logo... (OT) by Faust7 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Apple of Steel," I think of it as. The new tough, hardened Apple. "Think different... WITHOUT MERCY." :)

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    The coolest voice ever.
  10. Flamebait? by NanoGator · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Heh I got a flamebait moderation on this. Anybody know why? The basic point of my post was to illustrate that flawed logic can make anybody sound evil. Did I slip up here?

    *wishes people who mod down could provide a reason for it*

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    1. Re:Flamebait? by NanoGator · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Heh my question about flamebait got modded down as being off topic.

      I think that's a little bizarre, I just wanted to know why my post was modded down. That was an on-topic question, seeing as how I'm trying to understand how my post was being interpreted by people.

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    2. Re:Flamebait? by NanoGator · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Ok, we'll play this game again. I want to know why my original post was modded down as flame bait. Obviously I said something that somebody interpreted as flame bait, but nobody explained why it was.

      HTF is that off topic? How is asking about why I was modded down off topic?

      GIVE ME AN EXPLANATION instead of modding me down for asking. If you want to mod me down, that's fine, but if I ask why the least somebody could do is say "here's why...".

      Damn dudes, I'm trying to contribute to /. here but it's frustrating when somebody goes around modding people down when it's not so obvious why.

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