Sony Entertainment can Suck It!

The man is working hard on keeping me down. Today I got an email from YouTube telling me that one of my videos was yanked due to copyright infringement. I figured it was probably one of my videos where I "borrowed" some music and the idea of that was annoying but not outrageous. When I realized that it was The Writers Room, my levels of rage went off the charts. The Writers Room was my response to the writers strike. It took place in a writers room for a real sitcom, The Office, and while character and company names from the show were mentioned (and half an NBC peacock is visible), the idea that there was anything remotely resembling infringement is laughable. This means that if you even talk about a TV show online somewhere and mention characters, some corporation can go after you for it, and this is chilling. Part of me really wants to fight this, but I barely have enough time to make a short film every now and then let alone getting myself involved in a court battle against an army of slick corporate bloodsuckers even though I know that I'm right on this. But I don't get how a show that actively encourages fan created videos would take issue with a fan created video that pokes fun at fan created content more than anything else. The premise was that the producers of the office hired a bunch of fan fiction writers to write episodes while the real writers were on strike. And when I searched for other Office fan videos on YouTube, there was plenty of it still up. To me, this means that Sony didn't like the idea of their production executives being portrayed as clueless wonks and they flexed their corporate muscle to get it off of YouTube. You can still see it here for the time being, and if that gets yanked too, I will make damn sure it winds up in too many places for these bastards to do anything about it.