Many comics fans are struggling right now to find a workable position to take on the issue of creators’ rights. On one end of the spectrum are folks who have no problem boycotting everything Marvel and DC Comics do until past and present creators are treated fairly. On the other end are those who simply don’t give a crap and are all for corporations doing whatever they’re legally entitled to. Somewhere in between though are those of us who are torn between wanting to see creators treated fairly and being really super-excited to watch The Avengers. What are we to do about that?

BUT SPACED SO IMPLICITLY UNDERSTOOD.

DO NOT MISTAKE THE SHOW FOR SOME INDULGENT, NERD-REFERENCE-Y BRAIN CANDY, FOR IT DID NOT PANDER IN THE SLIGHTEST. IT SIMPLY UNDERSTOOD WHAT IT MEANT TO BE BOTH A CERTAIN AGE AND CERTAIN KIND OF HUMAN BEING. WHILE THE PRESENTATION MIGHT HAVE BEEN A LITANY OF LAYERED STYLISTIC REFERENCES, THOSE THINGS WERE SIMPLY A LANGUAGE. THE CONTENT OF THE SHOW ITSELF WAS, QUITE SIMPLY, ABOUT REALITY. A CROSS-CULTURAL, CROSS-ARTISTIC SLICE OF LIFE FOR LATE 20 SOMETHINGS WHO WERE LOOKING (OR NOT LOOKING) FOR THAT INEFFABLE THING ALL HUMANS LOOK FOR. SURE, THEY MIGHT REFERENCE RESIDENT EVIL, BUT IT WASN'T A "HEY WE THINK THIS IS COOL TOO! AREN'T WE AWESOME?!" NO, IT UNDERSTOOD GAMING CONTEXTS IN A WORLD THAT WAS ALSO ABOUT FILM, MODERN ART, CLUB CULTURE, TELEVISION, AND SLACKER-DOM. AGAIN, IT WAS SIMPLY A LANGUAGE. A SHORT-HAND MAYBE. BUT THE WAS MOST IMPORTANT THINGS WERE THE SAME BASIC THINGS THAT MAKE US ALL PUNY HUMANS.

The Man with the Guinness was the campaign name for the now legendary series of ads for the black stuff that ran from 1987 to 1994. I joined the Guinness brand team at the tail end of that period just as the final ad, Chain, was being put together.

A new report on the effectiveness of the French three-strikes anti-piracy law claims that it managed to cut Internet piracy in half last year. While lobbyists are making preparations to show these great results to politicians worldwide, there is one thing the report fails to mention. Despite the claimed decrease in piracy, revenues through legal channels are down as well. This is strange, because in previous years these losses were solely attributed to piracy.

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