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Ernest Cline DMCA's Laura Hudson's Ready Player Two review thread on Twitter

Syriel

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Ready Player Two is out. Laura Hudson excerpted bits on twitter along with criticism of the passages.

It appears that Cline didn't like the (well deserved) criticism, so he's been DMCAing the tweets in her review thread, one-by-one, removing the reference quotes that she included as images.





Full review thread:
 
Runner

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it's hard to prove purpose and fault when it comes to illegally submitted DMCA takedowns but DMCA taking down images used in an actual review is pretty cut and dry no
 
Dyle

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How dare he, this is even worse than [Insert non-sequitur pop culture reference here]
 
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that means i have to save my favorite ones

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this reminds me of the time Vinny, titular character from the film My Cousin Vinny, fooled that judge into believing he had sufficient courtroom experience
 
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If only I'd had known that my elementary school imaginations of IP crossovers and hot sex with bosom female androids could one day make me a millionaire.
 
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I am inclined to agree with the idea that this does not come off written as someone who is actually passionate about these subjects, but rather someone who skimmed a Wikipedia article. Most of the references are surface level stuff and nobody talks about their favorite games or movies like this! Nobody says "This reminds me of Die Hard, my favorite movie, which came out in 1988, released by 20th Century Fox."
 

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This is amazing. My lord it's so fucking bad. I can see why people who's lives are defined by their favorite media love this shit.
 
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Lant_War

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Damn this is just like something out of Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.
 
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Funny considering he just copied his own book.

I'm not kidding. The overarching plot of Ready Player Two is ANOTHER Egg hunt.

Also the protagonist became the fusion of Notch and Mark Zurkerberg.
 
thestateriver

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xgalaxy said:
Look. If you are posting whole passages on Twitter you deserve to get DMCA'd.
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I think you should definitely be able to post passages from a book without getting DMCA'd. Even if people post a full page from the book, that's like 1/400th of the book - how could you possibly call that piracy?
 
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xgalaxy said:
Look. If you are posting whole passages on Twitter you deserve to get DMCA'd.
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Wrong, quoting books, even longer passages (if applicable) is absolutely fine for literary or scientific review. The only reason they could DMCA this shit is because the Quotes were taken as a photograph, thus technically re-distributing parts of the work without the authors consent. Had they typed out the Quote, the DMCA would be absolutely baseless.
 
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Syriel

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BioDigital Jazzman said:
I get the criticism but I've been seeing whole passages on Twitter. That feels weird.
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Whole pages posted alone? Yeah, those are probably fair game for a takedown.

Sentences quoted as part of a review? That's just normal.

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Look. If you are posting whole passages on Twitter you deserve to get DMCA'd.
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You are wrong.

Quoting from the text while criticizing it is one of the most basic examples of fair use in the United States.

No, you can't just post text from a book or scenes from a movie for no reason. But if you're using them to illustrate a point you're making while criticizing the underlying media work that they come from, you're good to go.
 

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Mifune said:
It does not clearly fall under fair use going by the description. Unless a twitter thread can be considered a review, especially when she is writing an actual review outside of the thread.
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Twitter criticisms still count as criticism. Fair use doesn't require the review to be posted in some professional publication.
 
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Lant_War said:
Damn this is just like something out of Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.
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every except i've seen from these books looks just like this

is it all really like this? even these snippets are exhausting
 
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Hailinel said:
It's exactly like the time ['80s movie character] from ['80s movie] did [something similar in only the vaguest sense of the word].
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Reading that reminded me of a passage from the book Ready Player One, a dystopian novel published in 2011 by the author Ernest Cline which was later adapted into a film directed by Steven Spielberg. A key part of the film was the character Tracer, from the video game Overwatch, who according to the Ready Player One wiki made five cameo appearances in the film because she was one of Cline's favorite characters. Her ability to "blink" through time and space was similar to the author's ability to randomly jump from reference to reference. However Tracer was known to do this while still focusing on the objective, whether it was the control point, payload, or the astronaut gorilla Winson's ultimate attack, Primal Rage, unlike Cline who seemed to lose track of the plot more with each additional reference.
 
Aerial51

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Wait a minute. Ready Player Two exists?
I thought people were joking or whatever when i saw it mentioned on twitter.

2020 is truly the worst year man
 
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Imagine being the kind of poster that says shit like "ernest cline lives rent free in some people's heads."

Fucking lol, fuck ernest cline.
 
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