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"Pixels" DMCA Takedown Even Worse Than We Thought

Posted by timothy on from the let-god-sort-'em-out dept.

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.

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  1. the original intent by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Interesting

    of intellectual property was to protect the little guy with the good idea from being abused by the big guy with the deep pockets

    the intent has been completely subverted and destroyed and now intellectual property simple serves as another club the big guy with deep pockets can use to rob the little guy with the idea

    the concept of intellectual property, the very notion of it, is completely logically and morally bankrupt, and must die

    now i'm no air head optimist, i may never see it happen in my lifetime. it's a slow change. but remember the printing press led to some radical changes in society. when education became cheap, a middle class grew from the previously illiterate serfs, and this class demanded power, giving rise to modern concept of democracy. it took centuries

    likewise, the internet is going to radically change society. and it will also take centuries for all the implications of a new disruptive technology to work it's way out. just like the printing press

    aristocrats then whined "not fair" like some do today as the changes begin. but on the contrary: the radical changes are all about making it more fair, for more people

    give it time

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
    1. Re:the original intent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

  2. Reminds me of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy by Darth+Technoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reminds me of the bit in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where ...

    "The simplistic style is partly explained by the fact that its editors, having to meet a publishing deadline, copied the information off the back of a pack of breakfast cereal, hastily embroidering it with a few footnotes in order to avoid prosecution under the incomprehensibly tortuous Galactic copyright laws. It is interesting to note that a later and wilier editor sent the book backwards in time through a temporal warp and then successfully sued the breakfast cereal company for infringement of the same laws."

  3. Re:Opportunity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Revenue, not profits. Never go after Hollywood for profits, there never are any.