Netflix, Amazon, and Major Studios Try To Shut Down $20-Per-Month TV Service (arstechnica.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Netflix, Amazon, and the major film studios have once again joined forces to sue the maker of a TV service and hardware device, alleging that the products are designed to illegally stream copyrighted videos. The lawsuit was filed against the company behind Set TV, which sells a $20-per-month TV service with more than 500 channels.

"Defendants market and sell subscriptions to 'Setvnow,' a software application that Defendants urge their customers to use as a tool for the mass infringement of Plaintiffs' copyrighted motion pictures and television shows," the complaint says. Besides Netflix and Amazon, the plaintiffs are Columbia Pictures, Disney, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, and Warner Bros. The complaint was filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The companies are asking for permanent injunctions to prevent further distribution of Set TV software and devices, the impoundment of Set TV devices, and for damages including the defendants' profits.

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[AmiMoJo]

I guess you missed the calm, considered and insightful debate around shows like The Simpsons (particularly Apu), Friends and Saved by the Bell. Or the thoughtful re-examining of old movies like the 60s/70s James Bond stuff.

This appears to be yet more fake outrage. Unfortunately posting outrage videos about fake outrage on YouTube is quite popular, but if you ignore those there are some quite thoughtful pieces on this subject.

Moviebob on Apu: https://youtu.be/NGMnnrw70lA
Lindsay Ellis on Transformers: https://youtu.be/tKyrUMUervU
Innuendo Studios on Monkey Island (the third part about Marley in the sequels in particular): https://youtu.be/IJcJevvWGP8
Folding Ideas on Fight Club: https://youtu.be/Td88z08a_4c

Note how none of them are screaming, whining or screeching.

Re:If obly

[Mashiki]

You don't think that non-progressives (aka conservatives) care about sexism/racism/homophobia/etc.? I wouldn't label all conservatives as bigots.

In the context of old TV shows? No. Because most conservatives don't subscribe to the progressive beliefs of intersectionality and identity politics, which makes a point that irregardless of circumstance it's still racist/sexist/etc and thus bad and in many cases should be banned. It's a lovely hive of authoritarianism. If you need a non-TV show example of that intersectionality and identity politics, go look at the current shitshow with progressives yelling that Candace Owens and Kanye West are uncle toms who are being "radicalized by the far-right" which one of the current narratives.

Re:If obly

[Mashiki]

This appears to be yet more fake outrage.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=apu+...

uh-huh, 'fake outrage' well it is. But not for the reason you're trying to go with. See all those links? Those links to news media who were promoting that view, pushing that narrative? Man just look at all those sites, CTV, CBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, AP ... wow... and just think how easily all those progressives were feeling now that they had a target of outrage they could attack, and attack they did. Just look at all those other sites pushing the backlash against the simpsons. Vox, paste, gawker, kotaku, and so on. And that was after some of those same sites created the backlash in the first place.

Note how none of them are screaming, whining or screeching.

You're some of the shittiest people as your argument? As well as trying to frame social media vs news media by using progressive talking points? Okay. But if you really want to go down that path, you've got one guy who was screeching that the 'minorities and women who supported gamergate' were sockpupets, or easily duped idiots. And you've got another person who was warned by the RCMP he was viewing child porn in Canada, but fundamentally failed to understand how the US regards it under DOST. You've then got another one who's apply the "feminist lens through intersectionality" because she's so afraid of sexuality. And then the last person, who would have shit themselves if Leisure Suit Larry had dropped into their lap.