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Ugh. I wanted to find this out for myself!

Well done!

Reminds me of NFL's copyrights claim: “Any other use of this telecast or any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the NFL's consent is prohibited.”

Do you mean spoiler used as some sort of harassment?

Or can't you discuss movies?

> “The problem with sites that extract text from movies and other content is that they reduce people’s desire to pay a fair price for content, which can lead to people not seeing the official full-length movies, causing great damage to rights holders,” the anti-piracy group explains.

So a bad critique of the movie, might also reduce people's desire to pay to see the movie. So with this kind of reasoning any information you give others about a movie (or other copyrightable work) could be problematic. Pretty strange stuff...

Ye I read that. It is just that it is so absurd that I hardly believe it.

I did some searching and I got no result from news orgs I recognized. But like, it seemed correct.

Then again, if I remember correctly Nintendo tried to go after videos of people playing their games at some point. I guess it makes sense from that perspective.