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"Pixels" DMCA Takedown Even Worse Than We Thought
ForgedArtificer writes: So we all know about the Pixels takedown on Vimeo, and that it was pretty bad in a lot of ways. But did you know that they took down the short film that inspired the movie? Turns out, the 2010 Pixels, which was taken off Vimeo due to copyright notice, was responsible for inspiring the entire Adam Sandler flick. Unlike Sandler's film, it's critically-acclaimed and has won awards. Talk about kicking someone when they're already down. First Patrick Jean gets to watch them violate his work and now they're claiming that his work violates theirs.
the concept of intellectual property, the very notion of it, is completely logically and morally bankrupt, and must die
Intellectual property is a false property right, in the same way that slavery was a false property right.
Eventually, we realized that the freedom of mankind was more important than the financial health of plantation owners.
And, eventually, we will realize that the freedom of our ideas is more important that the financial health of publishing corporations.
We live in a strange time in history. We understand that people must be free, but we inexplicably fail to realize that a person is not truly free unless his ideas are free as well. Future generations will look back on us for our barbaric, immoral selfishness -- in the same way that we look back on the American slave trade for their barbaric, immoral selfishness.
Revenue, not profits. Never go after Hollywood for profits, there never are any.