movies are cool. here is a place to talk about how cool they are. or maybe how much they suck, sometimes. like that fucking piece of shit 'mac and me'. worst fucking movie ever, a two-hour ad for fucking coca-cola.
The video “Pantone Pixels,” published in 2011, was an independent art project that used a swath of colors to illustrate a picture of the creator’s parents. Last week, Vimeo took it down. Turns out it was too similar to “Pixels,” a 2015 movie starring Adam Sandler.
A reasonable human being might wonder what a tiny art film might have to do with a giant Sandler catastrophe, but copyright trolls are not reasonable human beings. Last week, the anti-piracy firm Entura International, which frequently works with Pixels distributor Columbia Pictures, filed a big old DMCA complaint—as first reported by TorrentFreak—that goes after a bunch of videos not for pirating or violating copyright in any way, but for using the word “Pixels,” which it turns out was invented in 2015 by Adam Sandler.
The full complaint, which you can read here, asked Vimeo to pull down the following videos:
“Pixels”, “Pantone Pixels”, “Pixels”, “Pixels - HD Trailer”, “Detuned Pixels - Choco”, “Pixels - Life Buoy”, “Pixels: Redeye @ Kettering”, “Pixels Festival 2015”, “Love Pixels- VJLoops”, “Pixels Official Trailer (2015) - Adam Sandler, Peter Dinklage”
Yep, they went so hard in the paint that they even dunked on their own damn trailer for Pixels, which, it should be noted, is a garbage movie. This DMCA trolling also swayed Vimeo into removing several indie films including a Machinima video from 2010 and a 2006 video by an independent museum called NeMe.
The good news: Vimeo tells Kotaku that they’re looking into this further, so hopefully they’ll restore everything within the next few days without holding any copyright strikes against the affected accounts.
“The videos were takedown in accordance with Vimeo’s DMCA policy,” a spokesperson for the video company told me in an e-mail this afternoon. “However, Vimeo’s Trust & Safety team are further evaluating the claims made and will have an update in the coming days.”
You remember when Iron Man went full-on evil in the comics, and the rest of the Avengers had to go back in time and get a young Tony Stark to come to the future and defeat his current self, and then the current Iron Man was killed and past Tony Stark became Iron Man permanently?
Yeah, we totally need to do that shit with Adam Sandler. Though if you pulled 1990s Adam Sandler to the present, he'd probably be so dumbstruck by how awful he became and spend the entire time crying.
*--For behavior unbecoming anyone, perpetrated in real time over an extended--AH, FUCK IT! MORE MALIBU, BITCHES!!
