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Discovery Threatens Fan Site It Also Promotes
An anonymous reader writes "It seems the lawyers and the marketing people at The Discovery Channel don't talk to each other much. The marketing people behind the show 'The Deadliest Catch' have been supporting a fan community called DeadliestCatchTV.com for a while now. They've regularly sent the site info, free clips, previews and information about the show. On top of that, they link to it from the official site, including it in a list of 'fan sites' as a part of the 'Discovery Network,' and even will frame the site with the show's own dashboard for those who click through. Discovery's lawyers, on the other hand, have threatened to sue the site out of existence and have demanded that the owner hand over the domain name — which he is going to do, because he doesn't have the money to fight this. While there may be a trademark issue (which could be easily resolved with a free license), the lawyers are also making the ridiculous argument that posting the videos Discovery sent him to post are copyright infringement. They're also claiming that embedding the official Discovery Channel YouTube videos (which have embedding turned on) is copyright infringement. This is exactly how you turn lots of fans into people who hate your entire channel."
Guess who failed?
SCO? Oh wait, wrong thread ...
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
One of the key paradoxes of protestant culture (The US is still a very protestant culture) is earning money vs your attitude toward money. Almost all Protestant's believe it's important to work hard and live unextravagently. A part of living unextravgently is not admitting that you want or need more money. It's perfectly fine to go earn more money (that's hard work which builds character and discipline), but if one goes about earning it with lots of passion (for the money rather than the work), they're doing it for the wrong reasons.
It will take quite a while before Protestant attitudes cease to be the dominant factor in US culture.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.