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# Just parody stuff
Speak truth to power
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:04, archived)
# So pretty much what b3ta does every week then
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:07, archived)
# with the word 'Parody' added
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:11, archived)
# and liberally misinterpreted
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:40, archived)
#
b3ta.com/board/10657805
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:42, archived)
#
b3ta.com/board/10657862
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:49, archived)
# normal service
(I helped save b3ta! Elvis impersonator, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:12, archived)
# I don't understand why this should be a legal concern
nor can visualise how it would ever end up in court
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:12, archived)
# Yes it's not like loads of comedies that have parodied stuff have ended up contesting copyright
imagine Blackadder in court contesting the copyright infringement of WW1 haha now there's a compo entry ;)
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:14, archived)
# I'm imagining it now, with judge Melchitt presiding
and Baldrick in the witness stand

Edit: Just seen your reply to me last night about the b3tards uploader. Thanks!
(I helped save b3ta! Photoshop Bitch 2014 edition, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:18, archived)
# You're welcome, puzzled me at first then it just dawned on me
the url to your uploads wasn't to b3tards - but even b3tards doesn't have a working delete button as yet :(
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:21, archived)
# you have to reupload an image with the same filename to overwrite it
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:45, archived)
# Yes I was explain that yesterday but Miss Chapeau
wasn't able to do that and we couldn't work out why then after seeing that I was using b3tards and she wasn't it made sense.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:55, archived)
# BAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
(I helped save b3ta! h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:36, archived)
# Ah, Life of Brian then
the Church would be outraged if such a film was ever made
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:18, archived)
# Absolutely!
"This Brian bloke is obviously a copyright infringement of Jesus!" :D
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:20, archived)
# Bread and butter b3ta then
seems like an odd challenge
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:24, archived)
# Something about it being backed by some organisation
who want to ensure our right to parody isn't untarnished, as if it ever was anyway. The whole point of parody is that you're poking fun at something, governments have been toppled by parodies and in some way the fact that often it can be legally borderline makes it funnier to the nth degree. Imagine V for Vendetta where the corrupt Government can't take any action against the Stephen Fry Tv comedian character - rather pointless I would say. But if this bill goes through we can have an open day on The Artist Former Known as Squiggle who wouldn't be able to do a thing about it because it's "parody"
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:32, archived)
# As I see it
companies will try to leverage their intellectual property rights (copyright, trademarks, etc.) to attempt to take down stuff they don't like from the Internet.

As most web hosting providers are either a) feeble and gutless b) can't be bothered checked whether material is genuinely infringing,
they will take down material without much of a fight. After all, as a hosting provider which will you care more about -
a single customer paying £3.50 a year for cheapo hosting or the potential cost of court proceedings?

So companies simply use IP law and the chilling effect of a cease & desist letter to attack stuff they don't like.
(I helped save b3ta! splorp ®, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:47, archived)