From: daniel_x@athena.mit.edu (Daniel M Higgins)
Subject: Re: Elle Calender rip off pigs!  Should be shot...
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:57:24 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.234029.21956@cam.compserv.utas.edu.au>, rhoge1@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au ([Robert James Hoge]) writes:
|> Well, obviously some men out there, not like myself, are total dribbling
|> pigs who'll do anything to get there name mentioned outside of their home
|> state.  If someone is going to scan the Elle calendar pic's and then email
|> them to the dribbling tight-ass pigs who are too cheap to buy the calender,
|> then there is something really wrong in their mind.  Maybe I'm the only one
|> in this newsgroup who's ever spoken to Elle face to face, and I'll tell you
|> tight-asses that she doesn't feel as good as she looks.  She has more hassles
|> than the woman off Sylvania Waters.  Elle gets lots of money, sure, lots of
|> money compared to us.  But she has to pay fees for fashion parades of her
|> own, she's got to pay for her own material and her HIGHLY paid employees!
|> Now give the woman a break!  Here the callendars are a small $20, and 
|> probably the same in the states.  She doesn't get $20 for every callendar
|> she sells, she get's around 15% of EACH callendar sold.  After the shop
|> owners get their profit, the photographers get theirs, the development
|> of the photographs costs, and the people who set up the calendar get their
|> share too.  Then she has to pay "new product" taxes and fees, and a few
|> other things that I can not remember.  She does not diserve to be ripped
|> off in this way, copying and sending her poseter to hundreds, maybe 
|> thousands.  Some people out there have the equipment to completely re-do
|> an Elle calendar.
|> 	So take my advice, who ever said that they were going to reproduce
|> her calendar pics, think again!  And if you do end up being an over grown
|> fat ugly perverted unsofisticated son-of-a-bitch pig fuck, then you're
|> a complete selfish moran asshole who diserves never to be looked at twice.
|> 
|> I'm finished, for now!
|> 


Are you a real person or did you just invent some personna to test the 
reaction of these readers?  You seem like an ultimate sterotype.

As to honoring copyrights. It is a pity that there is bootlegging
going on - but it is also a pity that everybody does not have enough
money to buy what they want. Perhaps , blinded by your own fortune,
you take $20 for granted. Many can't.

So Elle gets screwed - everybody gets screwed - Do you put on your armour
for them all?

Can't say as I've had too much experience with being ripped off by 
bootleggers - but Ive occasionally read artist's responses to the question 
of pirate copying and its refreshing to find so many who feel ( or at
least pretend to feel ) that they are happy if their work reaches a 
wider audience.

Perhaps some of the people who see the bootleg calender will go and 
buy it afterwards - a copy for their wife's office perhaps - or as a gift 
for their husband. They are certainly more likely to buy the next calender
if they saw and liked the current one.

Maybe your dear friend may not appreciate your heart felt help in her hour of
darkness.

Again, I must say that I am disappointed to hear someone crying for poor little
Elle because she is being gibbed out of some percentage - everone suffers
even if they are not famous and beautiful.

You should be careful - if you really like Elle you might want to include 
some sort of disclaimer - many people would make a point of not buying
her calender if they thought you had any thing to do with it.

Are you sophisticated ?  you don't seem very sophisticated. Perhaps I just
havn't been exposed to the right people.

All this aside - If you dont need your armour next weekend could I borrow it.
I really want to impress this girl that I've spoken to face to face.

Are you familiar with the term wanker?

You will give my regards to Elle, won't you. 


Daniel.
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