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Napster: The Movie
Joey Patterson writes "Looks like the story of Napster founder Shawn Fanning is headed to the small screen. CNET News.com reports that Fanning has signed a deal with MTV to turn his life story into a movie, which will focus on his personal saga during Napster's rise and fall. There's no word yet on who the cast will be (although Fanning may play himself), but Alex Winter (who played Bill in the "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" movies) will write (and possibly direct) the film."
That actually sounds worse than most of the new sitcoms on regular TV.
Honestly, who plans on watching this?
Yeah, I thought it'd be cool if everyone would share music on the internet. I didn't think it was illegal. Dude... gimmie another hit!!
First the Simpsons sign on for a three movie deal, and now a movie about Fanning... Wonder which one will be more humourous?
Think I can download it off of Kazaa?
I knew alex winter had a stint with modona a while back, I guess its good to see he is still in the business. I love bill and teds... I aspired to BE Ted for about 8 years of my life (and mabye still a little bit). anyway, hopfully the movie doesn't suck
I hate those MTV "this is how you should live" lifestyle movies/"shows"...I have a feeling this is gonna be another one of those teen cult movies about computers which will get it all wrong anyway... Hehe, wonder how Fanning will feel about this movie being pirated on the net? (which it probably will be)
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Curious to see what type of spin they will put on this - either the RIAA will come out looking like justified heros, or Fanning will look like the media scapegoat.
in the "Disease of the week" class.
Well yeah, but none that ever won a penguin for me.
For those of you skeptic of Alex Winter's directing abilities, please make sure to see the movie "Freaked" first, which he wrote, directed and starred in.
Incase you aren't familiar with it, Mr. T is one of the co-stars, playing a man turned into a woman, now the Bearded Lady in a circus side show.
Oh, now about this movie - I'm sure it'll suck, but that's not his fault.
I bet its Jack Osbourne. Seems to be in a lot of other things these days, he could be the latest to try to cash in on the name recognition, just like Casey Kasem's kid doing the MTV countdown.
siri
Starring:
Vin Diesel as 'The Napster'
and
Louie Anderson as 'Corporate Bad Guy'
special appearance by Beatrice Arthur as Mr. Fanning's love interest, and Samuel Jackson as "Angry black man."
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Although, you may be able to find it if you look for "EmTeeVee" instead.
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This is a bad idea for a movie
However; two of my friends and I (in 1975) during a dry weed spell, collecting $6000, then driving 700 miles (each way) to try and buy weed (over 48 hrs), would make a good movie. The kicker was, the guy selling it (10 kg) was such a stoner, we stole the weed and fled the state.
True Story.
Too easy to make jokes about. Like shooting fish in a barrel or buying Napster's aeron chairs on EBay for 12 dollars each... Oops ;)
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And I thought HBO had the best drama's on TV.
All they need to add is Rosie O'Donnell in a cameo as "The AIMster Girl".
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09:44 omg
09:44 napster: the movie
09:44 the movie is on the net
FRIEND: Dude, I just like, totally ripped this CD off from the store.
FANNING: Hey, check this out, man: I just discovered a bodacious way to rip off CDs without shoplifting!
FRIEND: Excellent!
FANNING: It works with porn, too!
FRIEND: Sixty-nine, dude!
FANNING: Whoa.
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Keep in mind this is the second attempt and producing a Napster movie.
Starz Pictures had already written a script, and I believed was seeking directors when apparently they just ran out of cash. Bummer.
In any case, keep your eyes peeled for the book too, which should be out in the Spring!
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They have a chance to change turn this all around. I think this movie would be very intersting if they focus more on Fanning's transition from college life to the startup of Napster.
Everyone knows what happens after Napster hit it big. I'm more interested in the startup side of Napster, before they were a success.
"Windows: The Motion Picture" and "Linux" the miniseries. Soon to be followed by "Mac OS", a sitcom starring doogie howser and the fat chick from that other show.
Or was napster like the crappiest file sharing util out there? I mean come on hotline was out years before napster and much nicer. Gnutella and the fasttrack networks are better too. Napster looked alot half the crap students write in their vb classes when figuring out how to use the winsock control.
I have nothing against fanning, I am sure he is a fine fellow. He just is no programming God, seriously after looking at napster and its framework I wouldnt hire him.
He was just in the right place at the right time. I cant believe they are making a movie about his life. I hope he takes his money and his free time now and completes his computer science degree. Maybe when he has a few more years under his belt he will write a decent program.
I've always wanted to see a movie directed by Bill S. Preston, esq.
Sadly, though, I fear this movie may fall short of the glory of Bill and Ted. It just doesn't sound as excellent, though a few gratuitous "we are Wyld Stallyns" exclamations might improve my opinion.
... Shawn Fanning played the part of Lars Ulrich.
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Alex has always struck me as more interesting than Canoe ever could manage to be. His selection of work has seemed to always be more motivated by his sense of art than how much bank he could get.
The results may have been as equally hit and miss, but at least they have been misses like "The Idiot Box" rather than Johnny Moronic.
I'll plop down a some bucks for a babysitter and movie tickets if it hits the big screen, or at least set the recorder if it runs as "A Very Special Behind the Music".
While on the topic of music and P2P, I hope nobody missed this Onion jewel?
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http://www.theonion.com/onion3836/riaa_sues_radio
Alex Winter's sketch comedy show on MTV called the Idiot Box was a delightful gem for its time.
No it wasn't popular and yes it got canceled, but then SO did the Ben Stiller show, and look at Ben now! (not that funny all together, but he's laughing all the way to the bank!)
Honestly, I would watch this on Alex Winter's merits alone.
I was just thinking about the Sinead O'Connor sketch the other day!
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EXCELLENT!
Seriously though, how interesting will this be anyway...i mean we all know the story...
I guess they'll have to wait for napster to recover financially before scripting a sequel.
I want to play the CD ripping geek who spends all of his time finding the perfect audio settings and making everyone's albums into MP3's. Except in the movie, I'd want them to write in a bunch of playboy models who would be my "assistants".
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When they say "Life Story" I hope to god they don't mean his lonely nights by himself tweaking his "little napster" around..
If MTV is working with Shawn Fanning (creator of Napster, got sued etc, blah blah blah) then aren't they assisting with the promotion of P2P, which will hurt their business in the long run (music video releases go down, due to lack of money for production and they have to play the same old material again and again, thus killing ratings and advertising), and wouldn't they be more likely to support the RIAA? I would say that they would support the RIAA, as it means money for them. Ironic, isn't it?
I sincerely hope that no one puts a copy of this "movie" on gnutella.
--- What?
Yes.. it's a very dramatic story. Kid has idea. Kid drops out of school to pursue idea. Evil Corporation realizes that kid's idea is allowing infringment on copywritten material. Evil Corporation crushes kid. Kid become folk hero.
So.. what's the huge deal about this? The kid didn't save any lives. He didn't revolutionize anything. He didn't improve the standard of living for anyone. He didn't create anything that had an impact on the majority of Americans. No.. he wrote some software that pissed off the wrong people.
What does it say about America when she has to find her hero's in the realm of corporate business? Perhaps she should take a look for her real hero's. Those people that actually affect the bottom line of all the people around them?
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Can I play myself in the movie? I used to download tons of stuff from Napster, so I should definitely be in it..
they don't turn it into a broadway musical!
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
I hope they remember all the small people that were involved in the programming of this thing from the beginning. Fanning has been the only name really associated with Napster, but there weere many people involved in getting this thing going back in the early days. Even something as simple as a reference to their IRC nick would be nice
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Does anyone else think that this is just really ironic. I mean, remembering back on all those "Don't do mp3" commercials on MTV, isn't it just wrong that the same people who destroyed Fanning's company and business/music distribution model are now making a movie about it? WTF?
Thanks to all of those P2P pirates out there, starz couldn't make enough money on their programming to be able to produce the movie. The bitter bitter irony of it all...
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Dude! The RIAA is Bogus!
...or are these kinds of movies notoriously bad?
Antitrust, Swordfish, and even Wargames were very poor movies. The only thing that keeps Wargames alive in my memory is that I wasn't very old when it came out...
But then again, it may just be me getting older...
Aren't they controlled/owned by the XXIA?
Hold on a sec, wouldn't this movie sale the point of Napster == EVIL, XXIA is the savior?
If the XXIA can't look good then just make Napster look worse, oldest trick in the book.
First off, Kevin Bacon must have a part in this movie. Doesn't matter what part, but a part he must have. Specific recommendations are:
The Rock or Russell Crowe to play Shawn Fanning (depending on whether you want an outrageous super-hero or a more realistic, though tough-as-nails hero), Sir Anthony Hopkins in a Lector-like role should play the leading RIAA character. I think that Vin Diesel should also have a role - reprising his character in _Pitch Black_.
A few _Enemy of the State_ chases and explosions, a super-hot love interest in the form of say, Alyssa Milano (_lots_ of nude scenes), great fight scenes, one of them epic... Do this, and it will be a big-a$$-megahit that I will spend to see on the big screen and then again to buy the DVD when it comes out.
In Bushworld, they struggle to keep church and state separate in Iraq as they increasingly merge the two in America.
Keanu Reeves as Hillary Rosen of the RIAA
James Van Der Beek as Lars Ulrich of Metallica
Yeah, those are my picks for bit players...
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How can you say "Wow" to anything on TV
after The Anna Nicole Show
Considered harmful.
Effectively the a front for the music industry (which I personally hold responsible for showing us the worst of what it has to sell) is producing a film about someone utterly demonized by the RIAA. Irony so thick that you could hammer it into a horseshoe.
So how does MTV/Alex Winter portray Shawn? Good guy? Bad guy? Misunderstood genius? Or some horrible crap where Shawn starts out as a devil-may-care music pirate, but sees the shining light of reason, in the angelic form of Hilary B. Rosen (descending from Heaven with a subpoena in her hand), and returns to the light, to take his seat to the right of Bertelsmann AG and expound on the virtues of IP and clamping all possible evil-doers in the irons of DRM.
Slated for 2003-2004 season relsease, I don't expect much in the way of special effects (so Hilary will probably just have to descend on visible wires.)
Last, the burning question on everyones mind: Will it fend off the Simpsons for holiday audiences?
Soon to appear in P2P everywhere... well, maybe not.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
(1) Build P2P network
(2) ????
(3) Sell movie rights
(4) Profit!
the soundtracks for this should be allowed for download on all P2P networks.
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I'd give my stuffed Tux Penguin to see a flick with Amy in it.
"So Shawn .... I wrote this film about how you let people trade White Stallions Album all over the internet!"
"No way!"
"Way!"
"No way!"
"Way!"
Well that would never work.
But Freaked, though it's a dumb, fun movie, is really brilliant. It's an incarnation of the cartoon genre in live action, WITHOUT computer graphics (I'm pretty sure) That's really cool. I'm surprised more people haven't seen this movie.
Definitely rent it!!
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MTV is sponsoring movies now? Trying to turn into an HBO?
I remember when they used to show videos. All day long.
Or at least download the telecine, and then download the DVD rip when it comes out.
Is there really enough content about the "Napster saga" to make a movie? Most of the movie will probably consist of fictional drama added as filler. Oh wait maybe they'll have Metallica make a guest appearance. I still would'nt watch it.
but Alex Winter (who played Bill in the "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" movies) will write (and possibly direct) the film.
Funny. I thought he worked in a Home Depot.
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errrr, I'm sorry, I meant sucked rocks . (I'm going to blame seeing that on my wife. Of course that's no excuse for having a wife that would watch such drek, now is it?)
i would stuff my penguin in her ass
do a search for amy aimster on aimster, there's a ton of hot pictures of that bitch
Old, pic, she's young, but has hooters
wtf!
Getting hotter!
There is money to make a movie that no one really gonna see, but no money to save Farscape? Bah!
Shawn Fanning - The Rock
Hilary Rosen - John Goodman
Lars Ulrich - Paul Reuben
...can't wait
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God the onion is so lame these days. Dosn't everyone know that radio stations already pay for the music they play? (not much, (probably less then they were paid to play it, if they're a clear channel station) but still something)
The onion sucks now. And it's getting worse by the week.
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possible snippet from the script:
FBI Agent: "Mr. Fanning we have a formal complain again you and Napster in behalf of the RIAA. We're here to shut you down"
Fanning: "Bogus!"
They've sponsored quite a few movies (although the only one I can think of off thetop of my head is Varsity Blues).
MTV (business associate of the RIAA and music industry in general) is making a movie (MPAA territory) about Napster (one-time arch-nemesis of the RIAA and not exactly on good terms with the MPAA either.) Being that this is an MTV movie, it will make the attempt of appealing to a younger crowd (RIAA and MPAA will use their influence to basically make this one big ad campaign against filesharing.)
I expect this to blantantly portray Fanning as a common thief on every level. They'll probably even have scenes where he's shoplifting, forceably taking candy from children, or anything else that gives the public the impression he's a cleptomania.
No, I think I'll watch something else when this airs. A 90-minute ad against Napster-clones doesn't interest me in the least.
Agent RIAA: We've been watching you Mr. Fanning, and we're willing to wipe the slate clean in exchange for your cooperation in bringing every known college student to justice.
Fanning: *flips hair* Woah. How 'bout I give you the finger, and you give me my phone call?
Agent RIAA: Mr Fanning, we're in bed with Inifity and Clearchannel, as well as every major television station. What good will that phone call do, when you don't have a voice?
Well first of all no one has any idea if this guy can actualy act. If he can't, he'll need to have a good director that can work around his lack of abity (cf. The Matrix).
But I doubt this will be any good. I used to watch MTV a lot, and all their movies, without fail, sucked.
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...the Burrowing Bishop?
Oh wow, I never saw Insomniac with dave attell-
Now I wish I did!
I don't expect MTV to actually come up with good^H^H^H^H any ideas, I 'm just impressed that they decided to rip off an intruiging one!
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First it was Apple, now Intel's doing it.
That is, showing you all the kool stuff you can do with your computar, like burning CDs for your friends and shit.
You know, all the stuff the *AA is trying to convince people is illegal and immoral. (And is trying to buy enough laws to make them actually illegal.)
Is Intel sending a big "fuck off" to the *AAs? (Now mind you, I think they should do that. I mean, the computer/electronics industry is bigger than the music/movie industry. The tail shouldn't wag the dog and all that.)
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(cut to George Takei laughing maniacally)
This movie's gonna BLOW.
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My vote goes for Lars Ulrich.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear to be bright. Until you hear them speak.
Then I strongly recommend you turn to VH-1 classic. It's what MTV was about, oh, say 20 years ago with NO VJs(except one woman that sometimes comes on) and commercials roughly every HOUR. I was in utter shock with some of the rare/obscure videos they played on their '80s weekend 2 weeks ago. I was glued to the set.
This is really good because if no one likes the script/screenplay you can share it out and get a better one!
Bu, dum, ching!
Does anyone have access to the forthcomming dailies?
NO, I didn't mean Carson Daly.
Now I feel dirty.
Napster is 100% illegal and MTV is glorifying it. Hundreds of people had the exact same idea, but Fanning was the one stupid enough to break the law.
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Damn, I was thinking why can't we have 'Ted' From the Bill and Ted movies to both write and star in the movie? Dude!
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With Alex Winter on board, can we expect to see Wyld Stallions MP3s shared in the film?
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Thank you for your Idealistic Claptrap, Mr. Henry DoRight. What you fail to realize is that the buisiness of America is BUSINESS! Its what we do and who we are. Of course there is a sizeable minority who would dispute that, but I bet you most of those folks have corporate jobs as well.
And yes he did improve our standard of living. It is now possible for the average American to acquire more music (a product) for a lower price (free). That would qualify as an increase of the standard of living in any Econ 101 text book.
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OPENING CRAWL
There is unrest in the P2P Community.
Several hundred lawyers, under the leadership of the RIAA Leader,
CEO Hilary B. Rosen, have declared their intentions to save the world
from Napster.
This movement has made it difficult for the limited number of
P2P Developers to maintain peace and order in the warez community.
Shawn Fleming, file sharing pioneer, is returning as a developer
of Napster II for the critical issue of creating a grand utility
to assist the overwhelmed warez community...
From the opening crawl, TILT DOWN through a vast sea of stars to the
massive planet of Earth. Soon after, a couple of starships with subtle
RIAA marks fly overhead the planet, followed by a large, chrome
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Unless there are some personal issues that Shawn is willing to reveal, there may not be a very interesting story here. Failed businesses are a dime a dozen. Could be a "tragedy" like the movie Startup.com. In a tragedy the main characters have a flaw that causes them to fail, e.g. blind ambition in the Startup.com. Shawn doesn't seem to have flaws.
In contrast, the Pirates of Silicon Valley was a comedy, i.e. adventures with a happy ending. There were lots of personal issues such as Steve J.s girlfirends and Bill's nerdiness. The happy ending was that everone got very rich.
I presume they'll hve to personalize the main conflict here. Bring in a big, bad media executive to quash Napster. But will it be interesting to watch?
Starring Mr. T as Shawn Fanning, Eric Roberts as one honest cop who will do anything to stop him, Christopher Walken as that icon thing, and Hilary Swank as the woman he loved.
Get ready...
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Bill S. Preston?
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Uh... First off, even if there was ANY comparison between the two shows, Insomniac would be the 'rip off,' since it came on the air TEN YEARS LATER! :^)
:^) )
Insomniac is a bald stand-up comedian wandering around towns interviewing drunk people on the street at 4am.
Idiot Box was a bunch of bizarre sketch comedy bits (i.e., it was filmed like any other sketch comedy show - it wasn't out in public interacting with random people).
Some of the Idiot Box sketches I remember included:
* Evil Dead parody with Sinead O'Connor
* Eddie The Flying Gimp
* Sacrifice Your Daughter To Guar (and all you get is this lousy t-shirt)
The show was only on about 2 seasons. I really wish I had taped them (not as though I wouldn't have lost the tapes
They aired right before (I think) Liquid Television. Some of the cooler animations from that one included:
* Mighty-Oh's (what's wrong kid, 'fraid of a little... BUG?)
* Jack Mac and Rad Boy GO!
* Beavis and Butt-Head
* Aeon Flux (of course - back when it was cool and there was no dialog, and she died every episode)
* Milton (turned into the movie 'Office Space')
Doing a quick Google, I discovered this guy (Drew Neumann) who did sound effects for a lot of the above (both IB and LTV).
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Its a far-out choice, but Eminem has anti-establishment 'tude' and a gen-xy look. Both Eminem and Shawn are heavily involved in the music industry. And early reviews of Eminem's "8 Mile" movie, in general release next month, are good.
Ally Sheedy helped a lot, too. Wargames had some iffy computer issues, and the story was a bit simplistic, but it was still a pretty good movie.
Remember that in 1983 not a whole lot of people knew too much about computers, and writers tailor their work to what their audiance will accept.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
Dude, you might want to actually read the post you are replying to. It was incredibly offtopic as he stated...he wasn't even talking about The Idiot Box, but about some show from MTV he didn't even know the name of...that was being called a ripoff of Insomniac not The Idiot Box. The only parallel between them was MTV.
anyone else find it ironic that its.. MTV that's making a movie about Napster???
This guy is just a miniature version of our lovely Bill Gates, without monopolistic megalomania. He stoled his ideas from IRC and from people that were building better system but were waiting to release a good one... Until he had reached a million users his system was a total flaw. Horrible structure, disgusting interface and bad programming. I even had myself build a system like that, way better, a year before Napster even comes out with his version 0.1. The only difference is that my system wasnt monolistic and wasnt intended for MP3 distribution, but for any type of document. Even integrating a Multicasting packet distribution system for MBone to speed up networked delivery and reduce bandwith usage... Anyway, this is not the point... Why ? making a movie out of this story: His sad, badly managed epic life and his incompetency may have lead Internet music distribution to die, like it is going right now... Bad decision, poor legal defense and so on... Poor people... They don't see he's nothing but nothing :-) Not have been able to evolve his software in many years... that's pathetic... HHEEYY, Take a look at great innovation like Gnutella and Gnucleus Project. That is truly innovation................ anyway, have fun, but I wont be part of the audience for that Money Making show. MTV sucks !!!!
Eminem was my first thought, too. He's edgy and alienated and in-your-face, about the right age and a big enough star to draw a lot of people to see the movie. His hair's not nappy enough, though.
There's a little Slim Shady in all of us. Let's all stand up.
The Liquid TV segment that was always my favorite was The Specialists.... Mastermind, Miss Kitka, and, uh... the bit fat guy whose name eludes me. Sumo or something.
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Good god what is the world coming to? Whatever will Hollywood produce next? Beethoven's last movement? This is just sad, really sad. We don't need this film, and who cares anyway? Not me, but that's just my opinion.
Next thing you know, a jury will order a tobacco company to pay a former smoker $28billion for catching cancer from smoking.
i want to see some passionate romantic sex scenes involving geeks dammit! :D
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It's the Napster!
:p
Excellent!
Haha, sorry... it had to be said.
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Who is going to play Lars?
Read the OT part of my post (the post that was accurately modded as OT? that one?)
I was talking about this new MTV show where they follow some kids around, and he said "Oh yeah, INSOMNIAC with Dave Attell!"
I think the MTV show is called radio active...
However I admire your rabid defense of The Idiot Box! You bring back a lot of memories- Eddie the gimp, the GWAR contest and the liquid TV stuff-
"Blow wheels, mac jack! Blow wheels!"
However I will never forgive Liquid television for the "ART SCHOOL GIRLS OF DOOM"
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Ah, sorry about that. I was wondering where in thin are you had pulled the comparison. :^)
I guess due to the way I have my view of the articles (threading, certain mod's only), the post you're talking about wasn't even visible to me (or was way-the-hell elsewhere in the collection of replies).
Yes- the original post was modded to (1,Offtopic) (who knows, it could be even less by now!)
Mostly becuase after the first two sentences it says
"OT as hell, but..."
I mean, how can you compare Dave Attel shooting off some snyde remarks to Sinead O'Connor beating Alex Winter over the head with a video camera? Its no contest!
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
"MP3 killed the video star"!
Yeah, it was almost as good as Tron (*), but not quite as good as your excellent lack of punctuation.
(*) Any implication that Tron was a great movie beyond the groundbreaking effects is hereby disclaimed.
His idea of sharing music was noble. Someday we'll reach a Star Trek-esque utopian society where everything is shared -- Napster was a good start towards reaching that goal. Warez and innovative software for Dreamcast are other good initiatives towards reaching a utopian, Star Trek-esque society.
Let me tell you a story...a good metaphor for this topic: I slapped on my cleanest pants and my cleanest shirt today, and I said to myself, "Today, I'm gonna find a job!" I went to Jack Fraser Mens Wear in the Midtown Plaza mall in Saskatoon, and gave my resume to the manager, and here's what she said, "Usually, when someone comes in here dressed like that, I throw their resume away! You're a poor advertisement for yourself." Shocked, I replied, "People apply for jobs because they want to dress like that *pointing at merchandise*, but they must dress like this *pointing at myself*. Everytime you throw away a resume based on how someone's dressed, you're discriminating, and you're being counter-productive to society!" Then she smiled, and said, "No I'm not." I replied, with an angry lump in my throat which caused my voice to involuntarily deepen, "Yes you are, and your rich-get-richer while poor-get-poorer attitude gives me the worst kind of disgust." Then, feeling as if I needed to hit something, I silently said, "Excuse me," and I left the building -- I had to cool down. Anyway, I hope I got the job, now what were we talking about?
Oh yes, how the music companies were trying to hold down the little guy; it's just like how the manager of that clothing store represses the poor. The music companies come to him with their big lawyers, telling him unintelligible legalese while he's just trying to share music with his buds who happen to be the world! The Napster guy, for that reason, is productive to society, because he shares! That rich-get-richer while poor-get-poorer bitch at the clothing store is the exact opposite of the Napster guy -- she's like the soulless lawyers who tried to destroy Napster. Well, at least that's my opinion.
MTV will portray Fanning as a hero, and Napster as the Holy Grail, and then... nothing. One week later, nobody will remember or care. For MTV, its sponsors, its RIAA overlords, and its viewers, it will be business as usual: a cookie-cutter counterculture/rebel story ("based on real events") to entertain the masses, and no real threat to the status quo.
Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.
Sounds like the movie about Microsoft/B.Gates..., to me. Can't wait.
Hey, suppose the RIAA winds up suing the MPAA over this movie? We can't lose!
And the brethren went away edified.
I thought that "Triumph of the Nerds" was pretty solid.
Admittedly, this is unlikely to be as well done.
May we never see th
They just started ignoring connections from IPs hammering them.
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Mr Venereal Disease himself
Quite ironic that HBO used to show music videos at intermission and now the channel that used to show music videos shows movies to break up the music videos.
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Dude... wonder if Keanu Reeves is jealous...
It dosn't cost much to play a song, but radio stations are required to pay small amounts of money for each song they play.
But, although it's illegal, record companies pay huge amounts of money (or 'payola') to get their songs played, so people hear them. It's a promotional thing.
Not every song is a payola song, though. It's just something that *can* happen.
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Napster: The Movie?!? Just another reason for MTV not to show music videos...
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