movie-related flash-fiction freebie: “Disney Dystopia”
“Hey, so you wanna go to the disneys tonight?”
Viacom
Alex “Repo Man” Cox insists you pirate his movies (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw yesterday and today…
irony for ya
Because I visited from a UK IP address, Viacom doesn’t want me to be able to see a Colbert clip…
FlickFilosopher.com will join the SOPA protest on Wednesday, January 18
The Stop Online Piracy Act will kill the Internet as we know it…
royal wedding hype; ‘Hanna’s Joe Wright says ‘Sucker Punch’ is sexist; dear god no, there’s gonna be another ‘Tron’ flick; more: leftover links
Plus: Should Hollywood stop pandering to dorks? Does the flopping of Mars Needs Moms spell the end of 3D? Why is Katie Holmes failing to charm America?
omg: Hollywood secretly embraces the power of piracy
Viacom does, at least. It’s from a couple weeks back but I just discovered it, a post by Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing about the lawsuit in which Viacom is suing Google “for $1 billion for not having copyright lawyers inspect all the videos that get uploaded to YouTube before they’re made live.” Here we … more…
Robert Pattinson, descendant of Dracula; Daniel Radcliffe heads to the Western Front; Weird Al to take on Lady Gaga?: more
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
