I think the rimshot was for "nite" instead of "night." Either way it was a really bad joke...and I'm hoping the awfulness of the joke was intentional.

Hah, that's an apt observation. I bet that really WILL happen...

Oh, and I forgot one thing: I'm not putting words in your mouth and then engaging in semantics. You said "hypocrisy" in your first post, and that's the only word we're discussing the semantics of.

Putting on a show? Okay, look, I was a little rough in my first comment. I was rough because you insulted me; you called me a hypocrite. If you expected to call people hypocrites without even knowing who you were insulting and get nice, polite responses, then I'm sorry, but you need to readjust your expectations. But…

That's still not hypocrisy. That's "criticizing the wrong people." Say what you mean, and I won't miss the point. And don't throw the word troll around. Language is a powerful thing, you should think about what you're saying before you say it.

Oh, I guess you just don't know what hypocrisy means. I'm not being sarcastic or spiteful here, you literally just said something that does not fit the definition of hypocrite.

Okay, people say this all the time.

I was actually thinking that myself. That's how I felt about "the cake is a lie" after a while—I never thought that meme got that bad (yeah, it was used a lot, but it usually had at least some kind of setup), but the meme-haters were complaining about it more often then I saw the meme...

Well what really drives me nuts is not that people like things because other people like them (which is kind of inevitable, you hear about those things more often and have more of an opportunity to like them), but that people hate things because other people like them. It just seems like senseless anger to me...

I kind of agree with that, in that the characters were a lot shallower in the movie. But I think its successes in other areas make up for it and it is still a good movie overall. I saw the movie before I read the books though, so maybe the way I understand it is colored differently.

Those are boring though. :(

Probably sound advice. I usually end up doing something resembling a facepalm.

This is how I feel about culture in general. We've reached a ridiculous point where the snake has not only eaten its own tail, but it has swallowed itself whole a couple times. If something is "mainstream," a bunch of people will hate it because mainstream stuff is awful and cool people don't watch mainstream stuff.…

Oh, well if it is different in the Netherlands then I don't know. But you'd have a pretty good chance of being okay in the US, and as far as I am aware there are no special education DVDs.

Actually, you might be covered by fair use if you show it in a school. Your home might not be safe either, if you're some rich mogul and you have a projector in your home and you invite lots of people to come watch movies with you. But yeah if you just have a few friends over watching a movie on a consumer television…

Lots of cases have upheld shrinkwrap licenses. See e.g. Bowers v. Baystate Technologies, 320 F.3d 1317 (Fed. Cir. 2003); ProCD v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir. 1996) ("[s]hrinkwrap licenses are enforceable unless their terms are objectionable on grounds applicable to contracts in general"). I don't know as much…

I know what fair use is, I'm in law school and I'm finishing up a class on copyright law right now. I wrote a 60-page paper on file-sharing that the school law journal is publishing, although it isn't really focused on fair use. I agree that fair use is often giving meanings it doesn't really have, but "mostly…

Yeah, but most of that is probably covered by fair use.

Check your law.

Actually, it is infringement. It isn't a stretch at all, when you sue them, you sue them for copyright infringement. Unless you don't define "piracy" as "copyright infringement," then the headline isn't misleading it all.