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>Can we please figure out how we can have renewable copyright law which cost over $1,000 a year per copyright item. No fuck Disney and their reshaping of Ameri

>Can we please figure out how we can have renewable copyright law which cost over $1,000 a year per copyright item. No fuck Disney and their reshaping of America's copyright law. For one stupid animated mouse they changed how the entire Public Domain worked. It's not really possible to boycott Disney at this point, but if I could I would because of this issue alone.

mrguyorama 8y ago
>It's not really possible to boycott Disney at this point How not? I consume nearly no Disney media. My biggest consumption right now would likely be hulu, and that's a shared account that I don't pay for
- bradyd 8y ago
  Disney owns 30% of Hulu and is purchasing 21st Century Fox which owns an additional 30% of Hulu.
  - toomuchgov 8y ago
    I thought Comcast was purchasing Fox now?
  - mrguyorama 8y ago
    Yes, and I didn't __need__ hulu. If it was my choice, I wouldn't have the account.
    - mburns 8y ago
      It is your choice, especially if you don't pay for it.
      - mrguyorama 8y ago
        My mother pays for the account whether I use it or not. I cannot affect her purchase of it (I've tried). I don't have a choice on whether or not disney makes money from that account.
- smhenderson 8y ago
  How about ABC or ESPN? If not them I'm sure there are a dozen other examples of things Disney owns that may or may not be common knowledge. I'm not saying it's impossible but it is sure hard at this point. Personally I'd really feel like I was missing out by boycotting Star Wars or Marvel. I know not everyone likes the direction Disney is taking these franchises but I continue to enjoy them, especially when sharing with my kids. I'd miss out if I tried to boycott Disney. Doesn't mean I like them as a company though!
  - deleted 8y ago
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  - mrguyorama 8y ago
    Never cared much for the original Star Wars, and certainly don't care for the new ones. Don't care for the vast majority of movies, or even traditional media. I don't consume sports, so the only ESPN I view is Five-Thirty-Eight on election cycles. Meanwhile I haven't watched TV, or ABC in 8 years. Apparently I'm (accidentally) boycotting a lot of media. I actually didn't realize it was so hard to avoid most of those things. They're full of the same old same old, and produce nearly no satisfaction for me. It's like eating fast food, very tasty, but of no quality. Though I say that, and yet regularly consume fast food. Goes to show my opinion of most "mainstream" media I guess
- bdcravens 8y ago
  Do you ever go to any Marvel films?
  - mrguyorama 8y ago
    I've seen very few of them since Iron Man 2. I don't particularly care for them. I have paid out of pocket for a single Star Wars film. I don't think I purchase much media they are connected to, more out of apathy than purposeful boycott, and I think it would certainly be possible to boycott them, just disappointing to some friends who enjoy their content. I took issue with "nearly impossible to boycott"
- sp332 8y ago
  Because they own so many things. ESPN, Marvel (movies and comics), Photobucket, the History channel, 8 local TV stations, a documentary The Trial of Adolf Eichmann which aired on PBS, Vice Media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Disney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Disney and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_production_companies_owned_by_the_American_Broadcasting_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_production_companies_o...
  - Semirhage 8y ago
    To be honest, and I admit that this is just me, but you described a whole lot of media I don’t consume and never will. I didn’t even realize that my viewing/listening habits amounted to a Disney boycott, but there it is. I guess they helped me along by being such crap.
    - sp332 8y ago
      It's just an example of their breadth. It would be difficult to intentionally boycott them because you'd have to cross-reference everything against a huge list of random junk like that.
- stephengillie 8y ago
  Disney also has partnerships with studios behind Youtube channels who make money by mocking Disney. Epic Rap Battles has a lucrative (to all parties) partnership with MCN Maker Studios. Maker is owned by Disney.[0] [0]http://newmediarockstars.com/2015/08/did-epic-rap-battles-piss-off-maker-and-disney-with-their-latest-video/ http://newmediarockstars.com/2015/08/did-epic-rap-battles-pi...

mrguyorama 8y ago

>It's not really possible to boycott Disney at this point How not? I consume nearly no Disney media. My biggest consumption right now would likely be hulu, and that's a shared account that I don't pay for

bradyd 8y ago
Disney owns 30% of Hulu and is purchasing 21st Century Fox which owns an additional 30% of Hulu.
- toomuchgov 8y ago
  I thought Comcast was purchasing Fox now?
- mrguyorama 8y ago
  Yes, and I didn't __need__ hulu. If it was my choice, I wouldn't have the account.
  - mburns 8y ago
    It is your choice, especially if you don't pay for it.
    - mrguyorama 8y ago
      My mother pays for the account whether I use it or not. I cannot affect her purchase of it (I've tried). I don't have a choice on whether or not disney makes money from that account.
smhenderson 8y ago
How about ABC or ESPN? If not them I'm sure there are a dozen other examples of things Disney owns that may or may not be common knowledge. I'm not saying it's impossible but it is sure hard at this point. Personally I'd really feel like I was missing out by boycotting Star Wars or Marvel. I know not everyone likes the direction Disney is taking these franchises but I continue to enjoy them, especially when sharing with my kids. I'd miss out if I tried to boycott Disney. Doesn't mean I like them as a company though!
- deleted 8y ago
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- mrguyorama 8y ago
  Never cared much for the original Star Wars, and certainly don't care for the new ones. Don't care for the vast majority of movies, or even traditional media. I don't consume sports, so the only ESPN I view is Five-Thirty-Eight on election cycles. Meanwhile I haven't watched TV, or ABC in 8 years. Apparently I'm (accidentally) boycotting a lot of media. I actually didn't realize it was so hard to avoid most of those things. They're full of the same old same old, and produce nearly no satisfaction for me. It's like eating fast food, very tasty, but of no quality. Though I say that, and yet regularly consume fast food. Goes to show my opinion of most "mainstream" media I guess
bdcravens 8y ago
Do you ever go to any Marvel films?
- mrguyorama 8y ago
  I've seen very few of them since Iron Man 2. I don't particularly care for them. I have paid out of pocket for a single Star Wars film. I don't think I purchase much media they are connected to, more out of apathy than purposeful boycott, and I think it would certainly be possible to boycott them, just disappointing to some friends who enjoy their content. I took issue with "nearly impossible to boycott"
sp332 8y ago
Because they own so many things. ESPN, Marvel (movies and comics), Photobucket, the History channel, 8 local TV stations, a documentary The Trial of Adolf Eichmann which aired on PBS, Vice Media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Disney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Disney and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_production_companies_owned_by_the_American_Broadcasting_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_production_companies_o...
- Semirhage 8y ago
  To be honest, and I admit that this is just me, but you described a whole lot of media I don’t consume and never will. I didn’t even realize that my viewing/listening habits amounted to a Disney boycott, but there it is. I guess they helped me along by being such crap.
  - sp332 8y ago
    It's just an example of their breadth. It would be difficult to intentionally boycott them because you'd have to cross-reference everything against a huge list of random junk like that.
stephengillie 8y ago
Disney also has partnerships with studios behind Youtube channels who make money by mocking Disney. Epic Rap Battles has a lucrative (to all parties) partnership with MCN Maker Studios. Maker is owned by Disney.[0] [0]http://newmediarockstars.com/2015/08/did-epic-rap-battles-piss-off-maker-and-disney-with-their-latest-video/ http://newmediarockstars.com/2015/08/did-epic-rap-battles-pi...