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[–] [email protected] 188 points 11 months ago (24 children)

Should copyright for works that old be expired? Yes!

In the actual world we live in, was this guy ever going to avoid being sued so hard that his grandchildren will be embarrassed for him? No!

You've got to admire the lemming-like devotion to the legal cliff he threw himself off though. Writing a sequel to not only a copyright work, but one that is still in the cultural zeitgeist thanks to a 20-year old wildly successful series of films? Ballsy. Subsequently suing one of the largest companies in the world and the estate that produced the original works as infringing his copyright?

Chutzpa, I believe the term is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Honestly, I'm surprised he wasn't embarrassed to claim that any part of that tedious shitheap of storytelling that Amazon produced had been lifted from his work.

The few episodes of that ridiculous black-hole of entertainment are the only things I have ever watched where I truly wanted those hours of my life back.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You felt much more strongly about it than me then. I just found myself not caring about it in the slightest; the only thing I really felt was boredom. Which is arguably the worst possible outcome for any work of art.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I mean, Game of Thrones season 8 made me feel that I'm never watching any content related to it ever again. Not sure they really wanted that kind of hate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

it's making you feel something

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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