2013-03-12 - 4:46 p.m.
I saw like 37 seconds of the Social Network over the weekend, which made me somewhat sentimental for Napster. Those were the days. Here’s my question: from a copyright infringement perspective how are public libraries different from Napster? Or Netflix for that matter? I’m assuming Netflix pays more for their DVDs for the right to rent them, but do libraries pay more for books that they lend for free? Obviously the existence of libraries affects the publisher’s ability to sell books (much as Napster reduced music sales). So why isn’t Dan Brown* suing the Pigs Knuckle Arkansas Public Library? I’m sure publishers don’t care as much due to volume, but the copyright law should be the same, no?
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I sometime wonder whose job it is to censor movies so that they can air on TV. I also wonder if these people are morons. Other sites have given examples of horrible replacement dialogue (e.g. “This is what happens when you find somebody in the Alps!” as a replacement for “This is what happens when you fuck somebody in the ass!” from The Big Leb0wski) – I’d rather just have a beep. I noticed something recently where they completely missed a pretty big thing they should have censored. In The Dep@rted (great movie), at one point Nicholson (in response to his girlfriend bitching about something) says in a fake Irish accent “Oh, another county heard from…” which because of the accent sounds like “Oh, another cunt he heard from…” Yeah, TNT played the unedited version of that. Sweet!
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Sacco had his housewarming/birthday party over the weekend. His new place is nice, I just don’t love the neighborhood. His parents were there. It was weird to drink with them because I’ve known them since I was a freshman in high school. This woman that Sacco used to work with (and hooked up with once or twice) was there. She had moved away from DC, but now she’s back. She totally gave off the vibe that I could have taken her out to the garage and “checked her oil level with my dipstick.”
CallGirl was there a looked super good. Like I haven’t seen her look that good in a long time. I would still do naughty, naughty things to her. Her husband (TheLamp) continues to be a giant douche.
Apparently TequilaGirl** got engaged to her zero of a boyfriend a couple of weeks ago and didn’t tell anyone. Odd… Her fiancée could have a contest with TheLamp to see who is more dull.
Behave,
DBB
*I was trying to come up with the literary equivalent of Metallica, i.e. someone good, but that I lost some respect for, but this is an imperfect analogy.
**Friend from grad school, who after her divorce, told me she was in love with me.
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