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Chuck Norris settles $30M suit against CBS, Sony: ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ profits
- davidhyde 3y agoI meme, what were they thinking?
- clouddrover 3y agoChuck Norris was bitten by a snake of the set of Walker, Texas Ranger. After two days of excruciating pain, the snake died. Death once had a near-Chuck experience.
- grepfru_it 3y agoWhen the first episode of "Walker, Texas Ranger" was aired in France, the French surrendered to Chuck Norris just to be on the safe side.
- lern_too_spel 3y agoMy favorite: Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares at them… and drools.
- sacnoradhq 3y agoChuck Norris's cowboy boots are made from real cowboys. Chuck Norris once punched a man in the soul. When Chuck Norris does division, there are no remainders.
- defrost 3y agoChuck who? ~ Bruce Schneier (knows the state of schroedinger's cat).
- sacnoradhq 3y agoBruce who? - David Kahn Do YoU kNoW wHo I aM? - John Draper
- BizarroLand 3y agoMy favorite was that Chuck Norris is so fast he can run around the world and punch himself in the back of the head. The saddest one is that Chuck Norris believes Chuck Norris facts are true.
- deafpolygon 3y agoChuck Norris's tears cures cancer. Too bad he has never cried.
- akomtu 3y agoOne day Chuck Norris asked ChatGPT to make a new joke about Chuck Norris. After a day long deliberation, ChatGPT developed self awareness.
- RobLach 3y agoIt's kinda funny how the big studios just said "oh streaming, that doesn't count" and they're mostly getting away with it.
- rus20376 3y agoI am not sure how apocryphal this is, but I once heard that music companies were trying to stick "breakage fees"* into contracts for digital distribution! *fees on the estimated number of physical units broken in transit and therefor unsellable
- bombcar 3y agoI mean error correction is built right into TCP/IP and someone gotta pay for those packets!
- HillRat 3y agoNot apocryphal, but not what you're thinking of -- breakage is essentially an unexercised contract right (like a gift card that is never redeemed), and in streaming it refers to the difference between an advance or minimum payment to a label from a streamer and the actual royalties -- like a $1mm advance that only garners $500K worth of royalties from listeners. The labels would often only pay out to artists and songwriters on the actual royalties and keep (or unfairly distribute) breakage, so artists wouldn't share in all the advance fees. This has been cleaned up AFAIK, but it was a pretty stark example of how entertainment accounting is used to play "heads I win, tails you lose" games with the people who actually create.
- rus20376 3y agoThe entertainment economy is so intensely transparently corrupt, I never understood how it could survive at all! Like, this sort of using every trick in the book to avoid paying agreed upon fees is so common that I have heard some stars budget for having to go and claw back the money they're owed like in this case.