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Category: News
Copyright Takedown Requests are Bullshit. Here’s Why:
Our Big Media masters are at it again:
HBO Asks Google to Take Down “Infringing” VLC Media Player
by Ernesto
It’s no secret that copyright holders are trying to take down as much pirated content as they can, but their targeting of open source software is something new. In an attempt to remove pirated copies of Game of Thrones from the Internet, HBO sent a DMCA takedown to Google, listing a copy of the popular media player VLC as a copyright infringement. An honest mistake, perhaps, but a worrying one.
Day in and day out copyright holders send hundreds of thousands of DMCA takedown notices to Google, hoping to make pirated movies and music harder to find.
TRUE BLOOD & HIT THE FLOOR Renewed, But THE LYING GAME Forfeits
Yeah, we meant to find some rotten puns playing on “renewal” and “cancellation,” but we just couldn’t find a metaphor that would fit a vampire series, a teen drama about twin sisters, and a show about basketball dancers. (WTF?) Hard to believe, huh?
Be that as it may, HBO yesterday announced that it/they (we can never get the pronoun straight) have renewed TRUE BLOOD for a seventh season, which means that new showrunner Brian Buckner has made the cut.
While HBO was bragging, VH1 joined the party by announcing an upcoming second season for HIT THE FLOOR. Turns out that showrunner James LaRosa is a big hit at VH1. (We were gonna go off on a huge snark based on the concept that we couldn’t understand why, but sound editorial judgment has told us to leave it to your imagination instead.)
LUTHER’S Back on BBC
…And this, our favorite detective show (since our last favorite detective show) will be on BBC America in September. In fact, the whole third series will run on consecutive nights, September 3rd through 6th.
According to UK broadcasting sources, the ratings for LUTHER’s BBC debut, after almost two years off the air, were its lowest debut numbers so far. Could audiences actually be tiring of the star, Idris Elba? Are Brits simply waiting for him to appear as Heimdall in the next AVENGERS film instead? What the heck is going on here?
Mickey Mouse is Back & Better Than Ever
If you’re like us, you probably never got what all the fuss about Mickey Mouse was about. I mean, dude’s boring. Been boring since the ’20s, or the ’30s at the latest.
But the Disney Channel has brought the old geezer and his gang – Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, and more – to the Disney Channel in a series of 3+ minute shorts done in a kind of “Hippest of the ’60s” animation style, and we gotta say, “We’re digging this.”
We believe you will too.