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    kaffeinebuzz: [Had to share this beauty…] You wouldn’t steal a car, you wouldn’t steal a handbag… We all know how the rest goes, because thanks to the Motion Picture Association Of America and their foreign associates, every time you hire a DVD, you have to sit through this ad before you get to the main menu. But in what must be the most delicious slice of irony served this year, it has just been discovered that that the music used to soundtrack this 50-second pain in the ass is actually stolen. Netherlands composer Melchior Rietveldt composed that ominous techno tune for a local film festival after being asked by anti-piracy group BREIN, who are funded by Hollywood. A few years later, he got himself a copy of Harry Potter on DVD and noticed his music was suddenly being used for much wider use than he had originally agreed to in contract. Which essentially means that when they say ‘you wouldn’t steal a television’, that doesn’t quite extend to intellectual property. Rest of the story…

    kaffeinebuzz:

    [Had to share this beauty…]

    You wouldn’t steal a car, you wouldn’t steal a handbag…

    We all know how the rest goes, because thanks to the Motion Picture Association Of America and their foreign associates, every time you hire a DVD, you have to sit through this ad before you get to the main menu. But in what must be the most delicious slice of irony served this year, it has just been discovered that that the music used to soundtrack this 50-second pain in the ass is actually stolen.

    Netherlands composer Melchior Rietveldt composed that ominous techno tune for a local film festival after being asked by anti-piracy group BREIN, who are funded by Hollywood. A few years later, he got himself a copy of Harry Potter on DVD and noticed his music was suddenly being used for much wider use than he had originally agreed to in contract. Which essentially means that when they say ‘you wouldn’t steal a television’, that doesn’t quite extend to intellectual property.

    Rest of the story…

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Asketh me things.

I tend to spend all of my time sitting on the Internet (yes, directly on it), drawing, playing bad guitar, editing strange things onto pictures, and eating chocolate. Generally, I'm obsessive about anything that catches my eye, rendering me a fangirl, a protective one at that. Don't say I didn't warn you. I feel the need to explain everything I ever do. I'm seventeen. I'm a third grade dropout. I have no job because I need a GED first, and I am too moneyless to go get one, so I am poorer than I would be if I did have a GED because I have no money to take the test, howdoesthatmakesense. I also need a Driver's License, but people in cars scare me, and rightly so, thank you very much. I LIKE COMMAS. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
I adore John Mayer.

I figured I should put that in bold.


But I also love all these things:

Necklaces made out of zombie ears, Professor Frink (yes, the secondary Simpsons character), Drawing, Photo Editing, GIF making, Guitar, Sewing (by hand and machine), Horse Riding, Saying bad words at nothing out of nowhere, Music, Reading, My Laptop, Cars, Para-psychology, Graphology, Dream Deciphering, Palmistry, Photography, Psychology, Astrology (Chinese and Western), Decorating things, Creating Spaces (by that I mean 'decorating and building miniature houses and farms' but I didn't write that because it sounds weird), The Internet (when it isn't making me hate it), Winning Arguments, and Reading the Dictionary.

Music:

Adele, AFI, Alice in Chains, Angels and Airwaves, Apocalyptica, Avenged Sevenfold, Billy Idol, Blaqk Audio, Bob Dylan, Brad Mehldau, Chevelle, Chris Botti, David Ryan Harris, Deathcab for Cutie, Doyle Bramhall II, Evanescence, Fleetwood Mac, Glen Phillips, Good Charlotte, Gorillaz, Green Day, HIM, Imogen Heap, Incubus, Innerpartysystem, Jason Mraz, Joe Satriani, John Mayer, Loreena McKennitt, Muse, My Chemical Romance, My Morning Jacket, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Rancid, The Rasmus, Ray LaMontagne, Rufus Wainwright, Shiny Toy Guns, Snow Patrol, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Styx, System of a Down, Taking Back Sunday, VAST, The Verve, + tons more and some weird stuff.

TV:

Angel, Arrested Development, As Told By Ginger, The Big Bang Theory, Bones, Breaking Bad, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Community, Daria, Dexter, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Fringe, Game of Thrones, Ghost Hunters, Heroes, Hey Arnold, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, King of the Hill, Kyle XY, Malcolm in the Middle, Merlin, Miranda, Misfits, Modern Family, Mystery Hunters, The Office, Primeval, Psych, Pushing Daisies, Raising Hope, Roseanne, Rugrats, Sherlock, The Simpsons, Six Feet Under, Sons of Anarchy, So You Think You Can Dance, Supernatural, Survivor, Torchwood, True Blood, Truth or Scare, The Walking Dead, Whale Wars, Wilfred, Winnie the Pooh, The X-Files, Stuff on Discovery ID and (used to be) Animal Planet.

Movies:

Any Given Thursday, Donnie Darko, The Fall, Now and Then, Sleepy Hollow, Star Trek, Bullet in a Bible, Don't Look Back, No Direction Home, Lord of the Rings 1 2 and 3, I'm gonna stick The Hobbit in here now event though it isn't out yet, Beetlejuice, Across the Universe, The Secret Garden, Coraline, Van Helsing, Frankenweenie, Big Fish, Syfy's Alice, The Labyrinth, Inception, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Napoleon Dynamite, Stand by me, Where The Light Is .. + tons more that I am simply too lazy to list at this time.

Books:

Tropic of Cancer, Slaughterhouse-five, Fight Club, Maniac MaGee, Lord Of The Rings(all), The Time Traveler's Wife, Goosebumps, The Egypt Game, The Gypsy Game, The Body, Different Seasons, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, GhostGirl, Who Put that Hair in my Toothbrush?, Loser, Charlie Bone, Harry Potter (all), + more again… I don't know why I still have so many children's books in here....

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