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May 04, 2005
Boy Scouts Indoctrinated Into Hollywood Plot With New Merit Badge
Andrew A. Anissi
Hollywood has created a new Boy Scout Merit Badge on intellectual property violations (i.e. downloading movies, recording a copy of The O.C. on a DVD, etc.), in the hopes of encouraging children to report their families' downloading activities to the local Gestappo, and to create a generation willing to do away with Fair Use in copyright. This is to ensure that Hollywood can continue making enough money to go on producing really awful movies.
Yes, I realize this is overly critical, and I further realize that there are plenty of great works of art that are made within the Los Angeles city limits, but sometimes, when every preview I see is for an adaptation or a remake or a sequel to an original movie that should never have been made, I get a bit frustrated. I mean, whatever happened to the value of originality?
As for the merit badges, read the story at: http://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-5693563.html
Posted by andrewanissi at May 4, 2005 11:24 AM