Miramax C&Ds Kung Fu Movie Reviewer 278
Mirkon writes "When a movie distributor attains rights to a film, it's rather predictable that they go after individuals offering the movie for sale or free. But Miramax took it a step further - as reported by Wired and on the site itself, Mark Pollard of Kung Fu Cinema received a Cease & Desist letter from Miramax concerning a link on Kung Fu Cinema to a movie purchasing site for the Jet Li movie Hero (set to be officially released in North America in April 2004). Fearing Miramax (and thus Disney) and their army of lawyers, Pollard deleted the link, as well as another for Shaolin Soccer, also unreleased in North America. Pollard criticized the studio for not permitting the original version of such films to hit the states, saying "If they own the rights to this film, then this film is not available to U.S. consumers -- period." The EFF also has some comments regarding the fact that Pollard has done nothing wrong in the first place."
In other news .. (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot links to a story [slashdot.org] that links to Kung Fu Cinema [kungfucinema.com] that links to a movie purchasing site.
Beware the wrath of Miramax lawyers!
fp?Lager? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh... (Score:5, Funny)
Please C&D this post.
- A.P.
Of course he did something wrong! (Score:4, Funny)
All we need to know about Shaolin Soccer and Hero can be accessed using AOL keywords SHAOLIN SOCCER and HERO.
Move along citizen, the computer is your friend.
Re:I have mixed feelings... (Score:3, Funny)
Corporations are brainless organisms which only care about making profit. They're like yeast. They'll merrily shit in their environment until everything that forces them to work is illegal and anything that reduces their profit (IE, competition) is illegal. Like yeast, their shit will probably eventually kill off the colony, then someone will drink it like a fine port. Er... or something.
Kung Fu Dispute (Score:2, Funny)
Great, now everybody is Kung Fu Fighting.
-rRe:I have mixed feelings... (Score:3, Funny)
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