Paramount and The Transformers Piss Off The Wrong Fan

From digg: "The Movie Blog has been going crazy over The Transformers for almost a year giving tons of positive hype. Then, without even a request to take an image down, Paramount had them shut down for 8 hours. This pissed off the Editor of The Movie Blog a LOT. This is his open letter back to Paramount. You've got to read this."

I'm not particularly a Transformers fan, but I wanted to make a note of this example of how copyright holders are wielding way too much power. Copyright is broken. It has become like Soviet Russia where anything you do is against the law. When you put a peice of art out into the world, you are going to have to realize that you don't have full control over it anymore. If you want total control, then keep it in your basement and only show it to your friends. We need Copyright reform to give users of content fair use.

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