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POSTED BY: Succatash
UPDATED: Thursday, December 4, 2003 00:31
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Originally posted by ManiacNumberOne:
Let me explain again, just for you, hooober.
hooobity. And I'd hardly call deliberately misunderstanding me, appropriating my analogy and bending the accepted rules of fandom to make it fit your example as an "explanation". But then, you've been deliberately misunderstanding everyone on this board for days. Heh. That's the first time I've seen obtuseness used as a defense plea.
"I couldn't help it, yer honor. I'm just too durn dumb to get the rules."
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"a fellow smacks his wife in the mouth" -translation - vidders appropriate Joss's Firefly episodes
Oh... so now you read Joss Whedon's mind and know what he thinks about vidding and fan activities, eh? Why don't you just change your nick to JOSS_WHEDON on the board and start answering his fan mail?
Can I have my lottery numbers now, O Swami, or does your downlink to Whedon's brain expire at midnight?
And the vidders already control distribution rights, and in the most final of ways. How? They stopped distributing. Even you should be able to recognize a dry well when you trip over it.
You know what this is really all about? It's not about Joss Whedon, it's not about vidding or fan works, and it's not about Firefly. It's about a couple of guys who got disgruntled when they found out they couldn't waltz into an already well-established community and make up new rules to suit them. That's all.
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Okay, I’m boycotting this thread right here and now!
Who’s with me?!? Come on browncoats!
Down with the evil thread!!! 
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
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More on the problem with the various arguments later. For now, something to bear in mind.
From an interview with Joss Whedon on about.com (link: http://actionadventure.about.com/cs/weeklystories/a/aa041903.htm )
Q: What should fans do now that they’ll have an extra hour free in their schedule?
A: What should they do with that hour? Write fan fic.
Take that as you will.
Bruce (BK) (the irregular)
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I know I swore not to chime in again, but I think that if we were to all go beat the ever-loving sh_t our of the fan who gave the VCDs and started this everyone would feel much better.
I didn't hand over the vcd, neither did Maniacone or succutash so I don't think they should be held resposible for the huge panic flight that ensuing.
"Societies are supported by human activity, therefore they are constantly threatened by the human facts of self-intrest and stupidity." --Peter Berger
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Originally posted by Kaythryn:
Q: What should fans do now that they’ll have an extra hour free in their schedule?
A: What should they do with that hour? Write fan fic.
from Joss's lips to God's ears...oh, you know what I mean.
"I'm still flyin'...that's enough." ~ Mal
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Maniacnumberone wrote:
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And a side note to Mandragora - according to your definition of theft, I could go up to anyone, steal anything they own and it wouldn't be theft if I intended to give it back eventually, say after 50 years. That word "permanently" will get you into a lot of trouble.
To which my response (along, with, oh God, I really don't have time for this) is:
I didn't make the law. That's the *legal definition* of theft in the jurisdiction in which I practise.
But - surprise, surprise - lawyers actually did anticipate the 'borrowing' point. The law states that a person is therefore treated as intending to permanently deprive if his intention is to treat the object as his own to dispose of regardless of the other's rights; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if this borrowing or lending is for such a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal.
The case law suggests that this 'borrowing' is usually for a short period of time, even hours or days can be too long, depending on the circumstances. 'Borrowing' something for fifty years would almost certainly amount to theft in pretty much all circumstances.
And a word of friendly advice, I suggest that before you attempt to quibble the law with a lawyer you actually make some attempt to know what you're talking about first.
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Originally posted by Kaythryn:
Okay, I’m boycotting this thread right here and now! Who’s with me?!? Come on browncoats!
boycotting.
buh-bye y'all--see ya on a different thread.
"I'm still flyin'...that's enough." ~ Mal
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this one's getting too big to load quickly anyhow.
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Originally posted by Kaythryn:
Okay, I’m boycotting this thread right here and now!
Who’s with me?!? Come on browncoats!
Down with the evil thread!!!
I'm with you, in fact; I've... got... an idea. We hijack the tread. Post stuff that has nothing to do with the topic.
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Originally posted by BKtheirregular:
From an interview with Joss Whedon on about.com (link: http://actionadventure.about.com/cs/weeklystories/a/aa041903.htm )
Q: What should fans do now that they’ll have an extra hour free in their schedule?
A: What should they do with that hour? Write fan fic.
No smack in the mouth? Shocker. Only NOT.
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