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Director Attacks MPAA Piracy Claims
dipfan writes "Alex Cox, the writer/director of cult classic Repo Man and punk movie Sid And Nancy, writes today in The Guardian's media section that the movie industry's real pirates are the Hollywood studios and the MPAA - for squeezing out independents. He rejects the widespread claim that Spider-Man suffered from widespread net piracy, and asks: "Are [the MPAA's] claims of lost billions even credible?" (In a strange coincidence, Cox has another article in the same newspaper today, where he defends using 35mm film rather than digital cameras a la George Lucas, saying digital cinema gives too much power to the distributors and studios because the technology is less portable than 35mm.)"
c'mon, i know geeks aren't the most artistically inclined, but this is just too much.
As a Canadian, it's easy for me to say "well, our politicians can't be bought that easily because they have to vote along party lines.", but the truth is that Canadian politicians can be bought just as easily as their American counterparts. But it appears now that the current government has finally learned that people want to see some accountability. The PM fired the Defense Minister today for giving an untendered contract for CDN$30K to an ex-girlfriend, and are drafting legislation to provide much more access to who gives the government money and who contracts are awarded to.
Station Name : theincinerator
Has a level 60 rogue with primal / N. ToV stuff.
I traded some stuff for that account a while back, and I made a profit off of the items on it.
However, the password was changed.
So, possibly, either the original owner traded it to me and then changed the password (an attempt to rip me off), or, over the months of not using it, I misplaced the password. In any case, the password I THOUGHT worked, does not, so I can't do a damn thing with the account anymore.
Most likely the guy who I bought it from changed it back, so fuck him, I'm telling everyone the station name.
No big loss, I made my profit, but still...
For anyone who owns EQ out there, have fun guessing.