Miramax C&Ds Kung Fu Movie Reviewer

Mirkon writes "When a movie distributor attains rights to a film, it's rather predictable that they go after individuals offering the movie for sale or free. But Miramax took it a step further - as reported by Wired and on the site itself, Mark Pollard of Kung Fu Cinema received a Cease & Desist letter from Miramax concerning a link on Kung Fu Cinema to a movie purchasing site for the Jet Li movie Hero (set to be officially released in North America in April 2004). Fearing Miramax (and thus Disney) and their army of lawyers, Pollard deleted the link, as well as another for Shaolin Soccer, also unreleased in North America. Pollard criticized the studio for not permitting the original version of such films to hit the states, saying "If they own the rights to this film, then this film is not available to U.S. consumers -- period." The EFF also has some comments regarding the fact that Pollard has done nothing wrong in the first place."

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Typical Responses.

[Anonymous Coward]

1-We are the mighty Slashdot posters. Hear us roar.

2-Ah man, the man is keeping us down.

3-???

4-Profit.

I HOPE THE BLOODSHED CONTINUES IN IRAQ

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, that should bring the bats out of the attic with fangs dripping. I won't be hypocritcal. It is politically correct, particularly in any Dem discussion to hope and pray and feel for our troops and scream "bring them back now". I'm fighting something bigger.

I'm a 28 year old and I can tell you that what is going on in our country isn't the usual ebb and flow of politics where one party is in power and then another; where the economy goes through ups and downs.......yawn, yawn--just wait a bit and things will turn out peachy keen. That stupid la-la land is over.

I realize that not every GI Joe was 100peeercent behind Prseeedent Booosh going into this war; but I do know that that is what an overwhelming number of them and their famlies screamed in the face of protesters who were trying to protect these kids. Well, there is more than one way to be "dead" for your country. They are not only not accompishing squat in Iraq, they are doing crap nothing for the safety, defense of the US of A over there directly. But "indirectly" they are doing a lot.

The only way to get rid of this slime bag WASP-Mafia, oil barron ridden cartel of a government, this assault on Americans and anything one could laughingly call "a democracy", relies heavily on what a shit hole Iraq turns into. They need to die so that we can be free. Soldiers usually did that directly--i.e., fight those invading and harming a country. This time they need to die in defense of a lie from a lying adminstration to show these ignorant, dumb Americans that Bush is incompetent. They need to die so that Americans get rid of this deadly scum. It is obscene, Barbie Bush, how other sons (of much nobler blood) have to die to save us from your Rosemary's Baby spawn and his ungodly cohorts.

Re:I HOPE THE BLOODSHED CONTINUES IN IRAQ

[Anonymous Coward]

You seem to know all about ignorant and dumb.

Are you aware that Al Quaida's main complaint is US soldiers in saudi arabia, home of mecca.

Are you aware that US soldiers are in Saudi Arabia because Iraq posed a serious threat to them (after they invaded kuwait, they were planning to invade Saudi arabia).

Are you aware that a democratic Iraq means less US presence in the region?

Of course not. you're a liberal. thinking isn't something you do very much of.

Re:Another case of idiots in legal departments

[Anonymous Coward]

When your 8 years old little sister/daughter complains that every kid
in her school have already seen it, what can you do?

If you're CmdrTaco, you could have hot incestful sex. Oh, you said sister. nevermind.