“the girls are fighting, aren’t they?”

  • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    241·
    2 months ago

    Above all of this should be the glaringly historical fact that Hollywood was literally founded to escape lawyers for European film groups trying to bring those founders-to-be to justice for their, well, piracy of said films… 🤷🏼‍♂️ I mean, if anyone should deserve an ol’ fashioned legal rogering, it’s those hypocritical backbirths.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      AFAIK it was more about getting away from Thomas Edison’s patents.

      • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        That is also true, considering he was an infamous patent troll of his time. Fuckin’ killed our boy Nikolai, by proxy, and now the ass-clown is named as the inventor of all manner of things he stole from other, more capable innovators. Fuck him sideways with a Faraday pineapple.

        • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          That’s why I never contribute much at work past the bare minimum. Someone else takes credit every time. I just watch them fail instead.

          • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            Try the bait & switch, instead, and then “somehow” be right there with the actual solution when theirs* butters into flames. 😜