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Columbia Pictures, the studio behind the recent Adam Sandler film "Pixels," has gone on the warpath, targeting independent films on Vimeo that use the word "pixels" in the title, TorrentFreak reports.
According to a DMCA complaint lodged with Vimeo by anti-piracy organisation Entura International on behalf of Columbia Pictures, with which Vimeo has complied, 10 videos were targeted by the production company.
These include: "Pixels -- Life Buoy," filmmaker Dragos Bardac's project for his degree at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania, uploaded in 2010; a dance music video called "Detuned Pixels -- Choco" uploaded in 2014; a short film called Pantone Pixels, uploaded in 2011; a video by graphic designer Franz Jeitz, announcing that he'll be speaking at the 2015 Pixels Festival; and, ironically, the award-winning short film "Pixels" by Patrick Jean which served as the inspiration for the Sandler film.
While Jean's film has been removed from his own account, it remains untouched on the account of One More Productions, which produced it.
The sweep also caught two unofficially uploaded copies of the Columbia Pictures film's trailer. A search for the word "pixels" on Vimeo reveals that some targeting may have been applied, returning some 9,050 results still live on the site at time of writing.
According to a complaint by NGO NeMe, which uploaded a video called "Pixels" in 2006, video creators are also being issued "strikes" along with the takedown. When a content creator receives three of these strikes, their channel will be suspended from the site.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday August 11 2015, @07:31PM
Wait, people pay to see Adam Sandler movies? He's not funny and he was never fucking funny. Not on his album, not on Saturday Night Live, and especially not in any of his shit movies. If I wanted to hear goo-goo ga-ga baby-talk and yelling all day I'd go hang out with a bunch of Downs' Syndromes and get a superior experience for much less cost.
Just because you hear canned laughter in the background every time he tells a joke doesn't mean it's actually funny.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Lagg on Tuesday August 11 2015, @08:56PM
Ethanol, I'd never say this to anyone usually but you're such a wholesome and earnest person that I feel I can tell you: I liked him at one point.
I was smoking entirely too much weed during this time period though.
That may have had something to do with it.
http://lagg.me [lagg.me] 🗿
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday August 11 2015, @10:24PM
Same here, I liked Waterboy but to be fair the guy in the apt down the hall had some REALLY good bubble gum smoke and was always giving me some to fix his computer. When i had no more bubble gum? I had no more interest in seeing a Sandler movie.
BTW everybody should go to one of the pirate sites and watch 10 minutes of Pixels to see just how insanely UNFUNNY a movie can be. Don't think just calling somebody a fag out of the blue is funny, or treating nerds like a jock douchebag in HS would treat them is funny? Well that is pretty much the movie. oh and Sandler is an absolute jerk ass to the woman who is a dozen levels above his pay grade, wanna bet she madly falls in love with him?
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 3, Informative) by M. Baranczak on Tuesday August 11 2015, @11:13PM
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Wednesday August 12 2015, @09:42AM
I watched 10 min when the stink hit and its pretty much "Douchebag: The Movie". You ever see any of his shitastic films like "That's My Boy"? Well there ya go, references treated as jokes, LOTS of homophobia, lots of really douchey shit from Sandler. Lather rinse repeat.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.