Bringing new meaning to the term home theater

carnivore

Unbelievable.

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2006/11/home-theater-regulations.html

khholt

The MPAA needs to find a new hobby. Ridiculous!

laura

Once again, a real news story rivals The Onion.

carnivore

My favorite part:

he MPAA defines a home theater as any home with a television larger than 29" with stereo sound and at least two comfortable chairs, couch, or futon. Anyone with a home theater would need to pay a $50 registration fee with the MPAA or face fines up to $500,000 per movie shown.

shishkab

um... i could be mistaken, but isn't the BBspot satirical? just askin'

carnivore

shishkab wrote: um... i could be mistaken, but isn't the BBspot satirical? just askin'

I think you're right.

laura

d'oh!

I'd never seen the site before, but as I sort of said, these days it gets harder and harder to tell satire from legitimate news. But then my faith in human stupidity (including my own) is completely boundless.

spstudio

laura wrote: d'oh!

I'd never seen the site before, but as I sort of said, these days it gets harder and harder to tell satire from legitimate news. But then my faith in human stupidity (including my own) is completely boundless.

^ what she said.

whyfi

I like the 'Related Articles,' specifically, MPAA to Thwart Pirates by Making All Movies Suck

idlewild

Y'all been Punk'd.

rubyfruitradio

Where's the camera so I can give everybody an expletive-filled tirade? :-)

idlewild

Flexichick wrote: Where's the camera so I can give everybody an expletive-filled tirade? :-)

Since when do you need a camera to do that?

worldtels

Since never, but it's much more fun on tape

caaahyoko

Darn it, now I can't invite the neighborhood kids over to watch Clockwork Orange!

Yeah, they fooled me too. I guess that means we don't think very highly of the MPAA. Wackos.

And the HD-DVD format article was great. I love the "clear DVD". I'm always trying to find a use for those things (that they put on the top of a spool of blank disks).

raw

laura wrote: Once again, a real news story rivals The Onion.

Yes, like when gun shot victim Harry Whittington said he was sorry for what Dick Cheney "had to go through" after Cheney shot him.

scriptedlight

I have an Onion clipping on my fridge. It has a picture of a black and white cat with a "cat smirk" on its face and a big poop outside of the litter box. The headline is "Independent Cat Shits Outside of Box".

It's been on my fridge for years and somehow I ended up with a cat who looks very much like the cat in the picture....

Luckily she shits in the box. Then again, she likes to roll around in the box whenever I clean it or put new litter in it, but at least the shit is in the box :-)

laura

I rather liked the Onion headline "Kitten Thinks of Nothing But Murder All Day".