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I haven’t been this shocked since I found out the original McGruff voice actor was arrested with a bunch of guns and weed plants
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Submitted 10 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
It looks like I’m using an adblocker you say? Well, I have to agree there!
Short of being able to actually read the article, “free my mans he didn’t do nothing.” So what he had weed and guns including destructive devices according to the ATF, did he hurt anyone or was he just mega fucking cool? If nobody was harmed and he didn’t have a manifesto, the worst crimes he’s guilty of are “possessing metal we say no to” and “smoking herbs we say no to,” I.E “not shit.”
Now, if he did hurt someone or threaten his wife or some shit, then yeah, lock him up and give me his guns and weed for safe keeping.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wasn’t there also a problem with the music rights?
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
ryannathans@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Time to update that headline
MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Didn’t the commercial use unlicensed music too? I feel like I remember there being a lawsuit
Aganim@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bezier@suppo.fi 10 months ago
Edit: Yup!
Your link claims the exact opposite.
MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah. I didn’t fully read the article lol. Thats on me.
MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Edit 2: I’m an idiot who didn’t fully read what I posted.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 10 months ago
Funny, but fonts can’t be copyrighted.
They say the ad used XBand Rough, an “illegal clone”.
If you redraw an entire font, pixel for pixel, manually, it is not an illegal clone. This happens all the time. The creators of the ad just used a copy that was free.
So ironic, yes, illegal, no.
SoulWager@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Typefaces cannot be protected by copyright in the US, but by some stupid interpretation, fonts are software, which is protected. Really annoying how tech-illiterate judges can screw up something this obvious. Even if the technical implementation of a font was something that should be protected, it should be under patent law, not copyright.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
There’s no rational reason typefaces shouldn’t enjoy protection.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 10 months ago
Yea, and in this instance, they were using a free font.
Personally I think the artistry in the typeface itself is what should be protected.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 10 months ago
pixel for pixel
I don’t think it was a bitmap font.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 10 months ago
If you copy a font, bitmap or not, you’re doing it as a pixel map on a pixelated monitor.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I love our spiderman meme culture where everyone is pointing their fingers at each other accusing them of stealing their idea/song/art/etc.
I can never understand how people carry so much water for corporations who could care less about them. We are supposed to rearrange our entire society around their revenue streams.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 months ago
yeah. it’s mind blowing to me how the Internet was convinced to give up its a culture of piracy and privateering and become sycophants for corporate protection of IP under they imaginary impression that they are “protecting artists”.
There were industry executives and think tanks litterally quoted (in the 2000s) for saying that their job was to effectively convince people that piracy “hurt the artist”, that this was the way to stop piracy: convince people they were hurting artists by piracy.
Turns out, almost no artists except the most extraordinarily successful make any money off copyright or IP. They mostly make their money the way they’ve always made their money: ticket sales, merch sales, performances, etc.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yo, that is my sequence of 0’s and 1’s is how ridiculous it all is in the digital era. Not to mention I have to pay for and maintain the hardware to even access the content.
I also have a hard time understanding the self imposed artificial scarcity we live with. Copying work/art/ideas/science is literally the point of humanity. We are truly living in a perverse time where corporations steal our culture and spoon feed it back to us for profit and control.
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The hypocrisy is unreal. I have been successfully holding onto my final shred of hope in the goodness of humankind, but this tips the scale. I give up. Now I only have despair in the badness of humunkind. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to drown my sorrow by bingeing on Napster, Scour, BitTorrent, newsgroups, and Gnutella.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 10 months ago
I’m just waiting to be able to download a house.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
With VR, you kinda can.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I like that today, this message would hit hard with theaters of people cheering and clapping
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 10 months ago
In fairness, I poisoned one food item in every music executive’s house as punishment for them being thieves.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I forgot about Dre but I was fairly comprehensive.
gilgameth@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Did you forget, or you just act like you forgot about Dre?
Taleya@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Didn’t they already get busted for not licensing the music?
didnt1able@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
You wouldn’t download a bear
muusemuuse@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Fuck you. You don’t know what I’m into!
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’d rather download a bear than download a strange man, that’s for sure.
MichaelMuse@programming.dev 9 months ago
This ad probably made more people aware of how easy it is to pirate movies and introduced the idea of doing that than it ever deterred people from pirating. I see the advertisement in www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU
libra00@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If I could steal a car by downloading it over the internet without depriving the original owner of it and with similarly low risk of getting caught/prosecuted for it I would absolutely steal a car. I wouldn’t steal a font tho, that’s just beyond the pale. :P
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My eighty year-old parents have “borrowed” my car for a year.
I, too, would download one if I could.
letzlo@feddit.nl 10 months ago
And so would they I suppose. It crosses generations!
wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org 10 months ago
Sligthly off topic but I think this actually may be some kind of Mandela effect, because I think a large number of people actually think the commercial said ‘You wouldn’t download a car’ because of all the memes but it actually said ‘You wouldn’t steal a car’
libra00@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve heard that too, but I saw the original commercials and remember it as ‘you wouldn’t steal a car’.
2910000@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Huh, I thought it was called the Mandala effect
Scrollone@feddit.it 10 months ago
I mean, just think about the meaning. “You wouldn’t download a car” doesn’t make any sense lol