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Pancake
posted 04-25-2003 04:57:26 PM
Talk about knee-jerk.....
Life... is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-crunching nuts, and if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is a... is an empty box... filled with useless, brown paper wrappers.
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Vorago
A completely different kind of Buckethead
posted 04-25-2003 05:11:29 PM
They will learn you dont mess with Gabe and Tycho
"There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there you'll be free if you truly wish to be."
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Niklas
hay guys whats going on in this title?
posted 04-25-2003 05:16:34 PM
Idiots.. they get free advertising and what do they do? Take it down ¬_¬

[edit: even bad advertising is good advertising (go bad cliches) ]

[ 04-25-2003: Message edited by: Niklas ]

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Snugglits
I LIKE TO ABUSE THE ALERT MOD BUTTON AND I ENJOY THE FLAVOR OF SWEET SWEET COCK.
posted 04-25-2003 05:23:16 PM
I think it's rather humorous that for the one comic they brought down, 10 mirrors sprang up in its place.
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JooJooFlop
Hungry Hungry Hippo
posted 04-25-2003 05:39:29 PM
Wouldn't the comic be immune to copyright protection since it's a parody?
I don't know how to be sexy. If I catch a girl looking at me and our eyes lock, I panic and open mine wider. Then I lick my lips and rub my genitals. And mouth the words "You're dead."
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Niklas
hay guys whats going on in this title?
posted 04-25-2003 05:45:47 PM
quote:
JooJooFlop had this to say about Knight Rider:
Wouldn't the comic be immune to copyright protection since it's a parody?

We need the Gydfather on this case!

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Gydyon
Yes, I am a lawyer. No you can't sue them for that. Shut up, or I'll have your legs broken.
posted 04-25-2003 05:52:00 PM
I don't do this kind of law, but I believe this would qualify as parody/satire/fair use....


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Suddar
posted 04-25-2003 06:24:11 PM
There's apparently a clause in Fair Use that says you can't use copyrighted characters while parodying something else (in this case, American McGee's Alice). I don't know if this violates it (I'm kind of torn over whether it does or not) but it still seems fairly nonsensical.
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diadem
eet bugz
posted 04-25-2003 06:37:59 PM
even if they are in the right, would it really be worth it for them to fight a multimillion dollar company just to keep one comic up?
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Drakkenmaw
Crunchy, tastes good with ketchup
posted 04-25-2003 06:38:44 PM
I can't get this page to display. What's up?
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Suddar
posted 04-25-2003 06:39:33 PM
I say somebody hacks AM's website and pastes the comic onto the frontpage.
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DS
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posted 04-25-2003 07:04:44 PM
One comic or all of them, they had to draw a line. What this is, is corporate bullshit. It must be exposed, and fought, and won, no matter the cost. Don't stop fighting when something goes wrong. If we just let corporations do things like this, the next thing we know they won't hesitate to shove our rights in the closet. Such as the upcoming Patriot act 2, which fucks with Habeas corpus. Habeas Corpus is an important law, and to ditch it for "national security" is practically the opposite of the american dream...

Than again, rome was a republic before a dictatorship, too. These things happen, I guess.

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Vorago
A completely different kind of Buckethead
posted 04-25-2003 07:07:38 PM
quote:
diadem had this to say about Robocop:
even if they are in the right, would it really be worth it for them to fight a multimillion dollar company just to keep one comic up?

You mean would Penny-Arcade have it on their site till the end of time that Gabe and Tycho legally beat the crap out of American Greetings? Oh hellll yes

"There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there you'll be free if you truly wish to be."
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Kekvit Irae
Pancake
posted 04-25-2003 07:18:56 PM
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Quoth the Penny Arcade forums:
http://corporate.americangreetings.com/topstories/carebearsrelaunch.html

The Care Bears are out of hibernation… and sizzling!

Tell me that isn't BEGGING for a Photoshop of...some kind.

Mmm... sizzling...

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