@FrankN.Stein: I don't know about that... consider that before Jesus, Judaism had a great deal of rules on how to get into heaven, you had to be a good person, etc... but Jesus came along and said "All you have to do is worship me, and you're in. And if you don't worship me, you're out. It's that simple." I'm paraphrasing of course, some people find it hard to understand the meaning of what he said when its quoted in flowery language and treated as sacrosanct. Imagine someone coming up to you on the street and saying the same things to you and there's a better chance to understand the message he was bringing. "Whosoever shall believeth in me shall not perish but shall have eternal life" and "None may come to my Father except through me" are pretty clear. It can get complicated though since he contradicted himself so much, in other places he said all of the old laws still stand and that any man who violates a single one of them will burn in Hell forever (those are the laws like 'a woman must leave the village and live in a hut on the outskirts when she's on her period' and 'no eating meat from animals with cloven hooves').
There is NO SUCH THING as "copyright" of a statue. Anything and anyone present in public can be photographed, video recorded, etc because A> there is no reasonable expectation of privacy and B> it is impossible to harm someone by taking their picture.
These types of court cases SHOULD be extremely easy to prosecute. The claimant should be required to show the harm caused. Since there is no harm, the case should be dismissed with the claimant being required to pay all legal fees and any other expenses incurred by the defendant, and a countersuit for malicious prosecution should be immediately entered and that trial begun instead of the originally intended one. People who insist on attempting to restrict the freedom of others when no harm is being done should be treated as what they are - enemies of society. And it should be kept in mind that being offended does not count as harm, nor does feeling like a persons intentions might be creepy. Creepy or not, taking a picture in public hurts no one, while restricting the freedom of people in general hurts everyone.
What, no Otto; or, Up With Dead People? Only gay zombie I've seen, with a couple sex scenes along the same lines as those you have shown.
Wow, dude, you've got some problems. You spend 90% of the entire review worrying about what other people are going to think of you. Then you spend the rest obsessing over the fact that masturbation and sex are two different things. You've accepted this whole "sex toys for guys are pathetic" thing way too deeply. How many women do you think lie awake at night whimpering over how they just fucked a piece of rubber? How many do you think bemoan warming it up to have some more fun?
Get over it dude, you'll live longer and be happier.
You most certainly CAN show it in a classroom. Stop treating your students like infantile imbeciles and give them some respect.
If consumers continue their ignorant and spineless behaviors with regard to digital properties, scenarios like this will become increasingly commonplace. Customers SHOULD HAVE refused to agree to Amazons conditions of acceptable usage of the Kindle. They should have demanded that Amazon guarantee the availability of purchased books FOR LIFE. They should have demanded that the books be transferrable to other people (so you could sell the book when you finished with it, or give it away to a friend). They should have demanded that functionality be built in to allow loaning a book to a friend.
Is no one bothered by the fact that if libraries were being proposed today, they wouldn't have a chance in hell of legal survival? Imagine if someone proposed opening a digital library online and providing ALL BOOKS, without permission of the publishers, to the public for very minimal cost on a limited time basis. Now add in music, movies, videogames, and other forms of media. Such a site would be buried in litigation, and it would lose each and every single case. We have let this happen. And every single person who purchases a "license" for a work that is restricted in absurd ways lends legitimacy to this new paradigm where nothing is owned, and useless middlemen (publishing companies provide absolutely no useful service any longer and should all go the way of buggy whip manufacturers) control your property.
They killed Heroes the day they decided to not end the story in 1 season like they originally planned and instead decided to milk it for as long as possible.
