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0 pointscoldtea12y ago0 comments

Someone can be both an idiot and a good cook/director/whatever...

Not to mention he doesn't think he's an idiot: just a jackass.

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kmfrk12y ago· 7 in thread

Rationalizing piracy is no trivial thing, although it seems to be popular in places like Hacker News.

Criminalizing piracy is no trivial thing either. Once you can get over the fact that piracy is a complicated issue, that it is unlike stealing things -- where the owner of some object is deprived of his original possession, we can get to talking about piracy in a serious and mature way.

chris_wot12y ago

You miss the point. Spike Lee's argument is that he never employed the artist, even though his film company ultimately decided on the agent who promoted the film.

If he complains about piracy, all we have to do now is state on twitter:

"I Never Heard Of This Spike Lee,If He Has A Beef It's Not With Me.I Did Not Buy Him,Do Not Know Him.Cheap Trick Writing To Me.YO"

Looks like, to me, that unless Lee backs down, he'll be being mocked for quite some time to come :-)

kmfrk12y ago

It is still possible to respect intellectual property rights, authorship, be against piracy, support the allegedly-wronged artist, AND find Spike Lee to be an idiot.

The problem with piracy advocates is that they will seize any opportunity to justify piracy, and this is sadly no different. Too many people unfortunately see this as a black-and-white situation where you either support Spike Lee or support pirating his work.

By all means mock him, that's completely deserved.

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dgesang12y ago

Didn't Lee pirate those graphics in the first place?

mindstab12y ago

which is why people are choked, becuase Lee is part of Big Media and rationalizing piracy at the same time. The hypocrisy is... hard to ignore

coldteaOP12y ago

Who said anything about piracy? If anything, it's Spike Lee who "pirated" the designers copyright.

nilved12y ago

no it's pretty trivial

jamesdelaneyie12y ago

Kanye West

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