When Even Comedy Shows Are Mocking Attempts At Stronger Copyright Law...
from the ...you-know-you've-got-an-uphill-battle dept
Via Michael Geist comes a link to this segment on the Canadian sketch comedy/political satire show This Hour has 22 Minutes, where it totally mocks the claims that file sharing is killing the music business by highlighting the previous "copying technologies" (home taping, VCR, photocopier) that the industry insisted was killing content providers:
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On funny...
Canada may be very similar, culturally, to the U.S. but so is the U.K. and what is seen as hilarious there is sometimes received very luke warm in the U.S.
If they put more bits, the impact of the message might be lost.
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At least that's how I understood it.
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Not so funny...
If anything, I'd say this was a leading indicator of public opinion and not a trailing indicator.
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Great
It's the truth, stated simply, clearly and humorously.
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Not their strongest sketch ever, but I agree, the punchline was good.
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Every drop makes up the ocean
I'll take this something over nothing anyday, and i bet the scumbags at **AA central arn't too happy with this going mainstream, heck, i think they would be downright jittery right about now.
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Oblig. IT Crowd reference
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Propaganda is misleading or incorrect content put out by a specific party to influence opinion. This is a comedy show that was just put out to be funny.
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Mike Masnick wrote:
There’s a bit more to it than that. As Goebbels pointed out, with the best propaganda, people don’t even realize it’s propaganda.
Goebbels was a big fan of Hollywood.
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I want a grainy, sepia-tone silent movie interview with John Philip Sousa. These infernal talking machines are going to bring to an end musical development of the entire country!
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Wayne-and-Schuster-Funny
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The original foursome on that show were funny and dangeriously smart.
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