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I understand that this concerns copyright issues which may be germane to the issue in the tech world, but is mass media drama such as this truly qualified as "n

I understand that this concerns copyright issues which may be germane to the issue in the tech world, but is mass media drama such as this truly qualified as "news for hackers"? I would be interested in the demographics of those who up vote articles of this ilk. Not to pass any judgement on them, but out of curiosity as to who finds this news to be important.

jessaustin 14y ago
I speculate that upvoters here include fans of "Code Monkey" and "Re: Your Brains".
- georgemcbay 14y ago
  Also, "Still Alive", of course, at least among those of us who are also video-gamers. But that aside, as a software developer I find copyright and other IP issues are very interesting and increasingly (and all too often in unfortunate ways) important to my field and I would find this noteworthy even if the subject didn't have obvious "geek cred".
danilocampos 14y ago
Tell you what I'd like to know: what commonality exists between people who post these utterly unproductive expressions of incredulity in contravention of the very clear guidelines for posting here.
gilgoomesh 14y ago
Jonathon Coulton himself is relevant to many hackers due to to the intersection of his work with many tech/geek related interests including his authorship of numerous themes to computer games, songs about being an unappreciated programmer, songs about the Mandelbrot Set, songs about passive aggressive T1000 helper robots, songs about doomed ST:TOS red shirts, etc. As for Glee itself -- I have nothing positive to say.
- georgemcbay 14y ago
  I'll come out and say it... I used to watch Glee with my girlfriend for the first two seasons and found it quite entertaining. At least it tried to do something different than be yet another three camera laugh track sitcom. I got tired of the stupid plotting and characters though, between the musical-chairs dating and the cheerleading coach alternating between evil bitch and nice person every other week, both I and my girlfriend just lost interest in the characters and stopped watching.
  - MBCook 14y ago
    I enjoyed it for the first few seasons, I generally like musicals. I got tired of it too for basically the same reasons. I didn't know they had done this kind of thing before (or at least been accused, see the top comment). When I saw this story earlier today I played that video... I was amazed. It was a nearly perfect copy. That takes a lot of chutzpa. Someone put a comparison of the two songs up on SoundCloud (link is elsewhere in the thread) and it's nearly perfect. Same tune, same BPM, just a perfect copy.
  - cheald 14y ago
    I enjoyed most of the first season, but then it took a hard left off into political preachin' and lost the quirky charm that made it fun to begin with.
- zevyoura 14y ago
  Coulton is also relevant as a very successful internet entrepreneur: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/14/136279162/an-internet-rock-star-tells-all http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/14/136279162/an-inter...

jessaustin 14y ago

I speculate that upvoters here include fans of "Code Monkey" and "Re: Your Brains".

georgemcbay 14y ago
Also, "Still Alive", of course, at least among those of us who are also video-gamers. But that aside, as a software developer I find copyright and other IP issues are very interesting and increasingly (and all too often in unfortunate ways) important to my field and I would find this noteworthy even if the subject didn't have obvious "geek cred".

danilocampos 14y ago

Tell you what I'd like to know: what commonality exists between people who post these utterly unproductive expressions of incredulity in contravention of the very clear guidelines for posting here.

gilgoomesh 14y ago

Jonathon Coulton himself is relevant to many hackers due to to the intersection of his work with many tech/geek related interests including his authorship of numerous themes to computer games, songs about being an unappreciated programmer, songs about the Mandelbrot Set, songs about passive aggressive T1000 helper robots, songs about doomed ST:TOS red shirts, etc. As for Glee itself -- I have nothing positive to say.

georgemcbay 14y ago
I'll come out and say it... I used to watch Glee with my girlfriend for the first two seasons and found it quite entertaining. At least it tried to do something different than be yet another three camera laugh track sitcom. I got tired of the stupid plotting and characters though, between the musical-chairs dating and the cheerleading coach alternating between evil bitch and nice person every other week, both I and my girlfriend just lost interest in the characters and stopped watching.
- MBCook 14y ago
  I enjoyed it for the first few seasons, I generally like musicals. I got tired of it too for basically the same reasons. I didn't know they had done this kind of thing before (or at least been accused, see the top comment). When I saw this story earlier today I played that video... I was amazed. It was a nearly perfect copy. That takes a lot of chutzpa. Someone put a comparison of the two songs up on SoundCloud (link is elsewhere in the thread) and it's nearly perfect. Same tune, same BPM, just a perfect copy.
- cheald 14y ago
  I enjoyed most of the first season, but then it took a hard left off into political preachin' and lost the quirky charm that made it fun to begin with.
zevyoura 14y ago
Coulton is also relevant as a very successful internet entrepreneur: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/14/136279162/an-internet-rock-star-tells-all http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/14/136279162/an-inter...