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Shocker: Despicable Conduct From Disney

Posted by chrisd on from the freedom-only-for-the-rich dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Phil Lelyveld, (email) a Vice President for Disney, has written to the FCC to tell them to ignore Digital Consumer's comments on the Broadcast Flag issue. The Broadcast Flag is an inter-industry conspiracy to turn over the keys to general-purpose computing to Hollywood studio execs -- under this proposal, no one will be able to ship digital television technology (like DVD recorders and FireWire) without Hollywood's permission. Lelyveld wrote to the FCC -- who are taking comments on the proposal -- without mentioning his day-job, to tell them that Digital Consumer, a civil liberties groups with more than 40,000 members, is nothing more than a "two dot.com millionaires" working to create a world "where we are all artist/waiters." Joined the EFF Yet? (or is it time to renew?) Update: 12/06 14:55 GMT by M : Lelyveld is not a lawyer. Here's a summary of his background.

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  1. Lawyers by SemiBarbaricPrincess · · Score: 5, Funny

    You gotta love lawyers.
    But consider the alternative; if we don't keep lawyers busy they become politicians. *shudder*

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    Those who would live more than one life must die more than one death.
    1. Re:Lawyers by Zoop · · Score: 5, Funny

      You gotta love lawyers.

      Yeah, gotta love 'em. In fact, you have to love them. Actually, we are under a specific and legally-binding obligation to love them, with severe penalties for alienation of affection.

    2. Re:Lawyers by genka · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think it is time to realize that lawyers are humans like you and me. Some are assholes and some are hard-working honest people.
      I agree with this statement. 98% of sleazy lawyers make the whole profession look bad!

  2. hmm by hawkedwards · · Score: 5, Funny

    "two dot.com millionaires" Are there that many left?

  3. Re:Legal virgins? by Raiford · · Score: 5, Funny
    You know the comparison between the lawyer and a catfish:

    One is an ugly, scum sucking, despicable bottom-feeder and the other is a fish.

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    "player 4 hit player 1 with 0 stroms"
  4. his email by sPaKr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mmmm.. I LOVE the SMELL of FLAME war in the Morning. Posting his email address.. nice touch.. ssshh...."What was it?", "A disturbance in the network.. it felt like a 100,000 flames hit a Disney lawyers mbox.. and then silence"

  5. Re:Where did Lelyveld say this? by millette · · Score: 5, Funny

    Luckily for us, news.google is much better then a montly update. Try the same query with google's news engine, I promise you will find the phrase "where we are all artist/waiters." :)

    http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=%22where+we+ar e+all+artist%2Fwaiters.%22

    There, happy now?