Yes, I have. MST3k paid for the rights to use the movies that they used. They probably didn't have to pay much, but I guarantee that they paid SOMETHING to someone for each of the movies they showed.
Parody is alright, but these people are just showing the movie with no sound. That isn't parody, that's Showing The Movie With No Sound.
The vast number of Star Wars parodies that exist show that parodies are protected. What isn't protected is charging people $10 to see the movie and then talking over the whole thing.
From the article:
"In order to protect our copyright, anyone who plans to commercially exhibit our films has to go through the appropriate channels," said Lucasfilm spokeswoman Lynne Hale.
That is not an unreasonable demand.
If you ask me it sounds like Lucas was protecting Seattle. If anyone should be suing, it's Best Brain.
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I had a board game version of Pac Man. One player moved Pac Man and the other player(s) moved the ghosts. The ghosts were cardboard cutouts of the ghosts, Pac Man himself was a big plastic Pac Man with a scoopy thing which picked up marbles as you moved him. There were a bunch of white marbles and 4 yellow marbles, and when you ate a yellow marble you put a little hat looking thing on the pac man piece and he could eat the ghosts, taking them out of commision for several turns (I think you rolled a die.) Each player rolled a die to see how many spaces he could move.
A really lame game, I think I only played it once or twice.
there are regulations about exporting crypto methods with keys longer than x bits, and there are also regulations about exporting computers that are y powerful.
I would love to have this done but I can't imagine how I would react to someone cutting my eyes open... I am not normally a sqeamish person but reading that just made me SQUIRM.
Editorials, ignoring a few recent isolated incidents, can't be absolutely false. I could write a blog entry that said "George W. Bush today hit a baby girl in the head with a tack hammer, and then punched her parents in the nose and stole their wallets" and an accompanying editorial; and I'd probably get away with it.
However, if the same obviously false story were printed in a newspaper or a "real" media outlet, someone would lose his job and it probably would end his career.
Commercial media has more accountability than so-called independant media ever will have.
The way that most of these things work is they generate the numbers at random and then store it in a database. If you enter a number that's not in the database then you don't get anything. Good luck randomly picking a 28 digit number that works... you'll be incredibly lucky if you get ONE before open registration starts.
Um, sorry to burst your bubble, but I hand-write HTML all the time, and it always validates; usually the first time. My co-workers who use tools almost always have to tinker with the HTML for hours just to get it to display correctly in every browser we have to support, forget validating.
Also you don't seem to understand what a NAT does at all.
Yeah, it's a joke, but not the way you're thinking. This all really happened, I was watching it from the start and the idea to do all sorts of crazy stuff didn't come up until a few pages into it.
I have a web hosting account with 5 gigs of space and I just set up Squirrelmail on it. I set it so that there's no limit on the size of my mailbox- I guess that means that I have the world's first 5 gig email account?
Yeah, and he totally fails to take into consideration the people who are actually dumb, but try to appear smart by laboriously picking apart a joke and posting about it on slashdot!
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these clowns aren't paying anything.
The vast number of Star Wars parodies that exist show that parodies are protected. What isn't protected is charging people $10 to see the movie and then talking over the whole thing.
From the article:
That is not an unreasonable demand.If you ask me it sounds like Lucas was protecting Seattle. If anyone should be suing, it's Best Brain.
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A really lame game, I think I only played it once or twice.
it does more than register cash.
there are regulations about exporting crypto methods with keys longer than x bits, and there are also regulations about exporting computers that are y powerful.
I would love to have this done but I can't imagine how I would react to someone cutting my eyes open... I am not normally a sqeamish person but reading that just made me SQUIRM.
However, if the same obviously false story were printed in a newspaper or a "real" media outlet, someone would lose his job and it probably would end his career.
Commercial media has more accountability than so-called independant media ever will have.
The way that most of these things work is they generate the numbers at random and then store it in a database. If you enter a number that's not in the database then you don't get anything. Good luck randomly picking a 28 digit number that works... you'll be incredibly lucky if you get ONE before open registration starts.
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Yes, they're called "comments", but you don't have to manually escape them like you would when programming.
It's in North Tacoma.
Except for the windstar
wasn't really expecting ECODE to mess up HTML entities...
Please explain to me how this:
is better, or more readable, than:
Also you don't seem to understand what a NAT does at all.
At work we've got 3 terabytes of data on (archiveable) CDRs in boxes...
A bunch of people on a hijacked plane on 9/11 used their own cell phones to call family members.
so don't plug the network cable in until you're ready for it, dumbass.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/cd/order .asp
Yeah, it's a joke, but not the way you're thinking. This all really happened, I was watching it from the start and the idea to do all sorts of crazy stuff didn't come up until a few pages into it.
I have a web hosting account with 5 gigs of space and I just set up Squirrelmail on it. I set it so that there's no limit on the size of my mailbox- I guess that means that I have the world's first 5 gig email account?
I think he's talking aboug GPG, the Gnu PGP workalike.
Possibly things we know that we don't even realise that we know- think Gravity, pre-newton.
Yeah, and he totally fails to take into consideration the people who are actually dumb, but try to appear smart by laboriously picking apart a joke and posting about it on slashdot!