Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
> On Oct 23, 12:39 pm, Homer <use...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Phil Da Lick! spake thusly:
>>> Guns are a murderer's tool however we're still waiting for them
>>> to be banned from sale in the US. Nice double standards there.
>>
>> Not according to their logic it's not. In the Land of Nothing Is
>> Free "Intellectual Monopoly" violation is ranked more heinous than
>> murder, since they seem to value exploitation and greed above life
>> itself.
>
> This sort of thing's been around for awhile, regrettably; recall for
> instance the uproar about showing the wrong bit of Janet Jackson's
> anatomy (hello, everyone has a pair, even the males!) during the
> Super-Duper-Whopper-Oopsie!-Bowl XXXVIII aye-yey-yii! game in early
> 2004. Oh, the calamity! Oh, the depravity! Oh, the morality! Oh,
> the raucous screaming and wailing and gnashing of teeth!
Yes I saw it on Boobtube, along with a rather hilarious spoof of the
incident that was used as a commercial for ... beer or something.
It was certainly an Oops Moment, but did I miss the copyright angle?
Did JJ copyright her nipples?
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K.
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