Paramount Studios is at it again. As you may remember, some time ago Paramount Studios had The Movie Blog shut down over a picture that we had up of the cast of The Transformers. It was just a simple picture of the cast off camera standaing around posing for a picture. There was nothing wrong with it. Eventually Paramount apologized to me for the incident (which was very decent of them) and explained it was an accident. Everything was cool.
But earlier tonight, another webmaster contacted me to let me know that Paramount is at it again. This time the target of their bullying tactics are the good folks over at IESB.Net. IESB is a first rate website run by first rate people. If I understand it right (and it is possible I don’t understand it right), Paramount used their mighty legal department to have IESB shut down and pulled off the net over the Iron Man pictures we posted here ourselves.
Here’s the funny part… the pictures in question are IN NO WAY ILLEGAL. They were taken legally and posted legally. Paramount’s legal department is using fear and bullying tactics to push sites like IESB around so they can be “in control”.
Hey Paramount! When will you guys realize that we in the online community are YOUR FUCKING ALLIES!!! We want to get people talking about movies… YOUR stupid movies. Sometimes that will be good… sometimes it will be bad… but we will get them talking. We’re on your side you morons! Just because you can’t manipulate and control us like you do with Print and TV media, doesn’t mean you should try to bully us into submission. It won’t work. Learn to work with us… and working WITH us doesn’t mean you’re in charge. DEAL WITH IT.
I hope you’re pleased with yourselves pulling IESB down… I hope you relish this little chest thumping session of yours. Because this is going to bite you in the ass BIG TIME. I hope for your sakes this was all some big mistake… a mistake you’ll correct sooner rather than later. Feel free to let me know if I’ve got any of this wrong.
