[Viacom] tried to make a joke of this a bit by pointing to Stewart's mocking and noting that "The Daily Show continues to exercise the creative and editorial freedom that makes it consistently great."
Now if only they could apply this logic to... oh, I don't know, DMCA takedowns...
A brief, gloomy silence followed. "Well, if that's the case," Carly finally said, "it'll be a lot harder than we thought to save your melodious asses."
Save our asses? "From what?" It took every bit of self-control that I'd honed as a kid at the bottom of the testosterone pyramid to say this with professional calm.
"Self-destruction," Frampton said grimly.
"Yeah," Carly said, then mimed ironic quotation marks with chilling enthusiasm. "Self-destruction."
Conspiracy theorists believe the Mayans predicted the end of the world will come December 2012, and Mayan historians offer another explanation: the occasion marked is one of transcendence and awakening.
It looks like the aliens are offering the same option here: either we perish, or we realize how bad our current system of copyright law is.
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That said, we have a place around here with the same name, and I'd hate to see it get swatted by amalgamated twatwaffles...
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Now if only they could apply this logic to... oh, I don't know, DMCA takedowns...
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Four buttons - YES, NO, HELLO, and GOODBYE
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Re: disagree
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To the new, to the free, the old and the wrong,
the pirates and shill trolls.
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Throes.
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Re: I call the China defence!
Now put your hand on this legal document and say the Pledge of AllegianceŽ.
America.
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Conspiracy theorists believe the Mayans predicted the end of the world will come December 2012, and Mayan historians offer another explanation: the occasion marked is one of transcendence and awakening.
It looks like the aliens are offering the same option here: either we perish, or we realize how bad our current system of copyright law is.
YOUR MOVE, CLARK.
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