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staticman2
9 days ago
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Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut ...
Is "You wouldn't distill..." the hot new Twitter meme or something?
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echelon
9 days ago
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It's a riff on the classic MPAA slogan during the Napster / BitTorrent era, "You wouldn't download a car."
... Yes I would.
It's free real estate.
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dtech
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That was not actually the ad, that was "You wouldn't steal a car. [...] Downloading Pirated Movies is stealing. [...] Piracy it's a crime."
Easily misremembered and meme-able.
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antonvs
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The “misrememberance” is describing what the words actually communicated. It’s not incorrect, it’s pointing out the logical flaw in the claim.
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