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Magically Ridiculous ([info]staroverthebay) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2006-04-23 00:59:00
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Current mood:OMGWTF
Entry tags:fandom failures, fandom: star wars, fanfic, self-publishing

Whoa. I didn't know anyone had balls like this!
EDIT: I didn't realize there was another wank about this topic until after I'd hit the submit button and this went into the fandom_wank queue. By then I couldn't delete it because it was in the approval queue. Sorry everyone!


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933456027/qid=1123612981/sr=2-/103-6073320-0586259

Someone decided she didn't like how George Lucas wrote the first Star Wars movie, so she decided to rewrite "Star Wars: A New Hope" (and according to the reviews, did so very poorly) and decided to sell it on Amazon!

The reviews are quite the panoply... ranging from "OMG PLAGIARIZM!!1!" to "HAY WTF?! COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT!" to "Not only is this illegal, it's SHITTY!" I'm even more amused by the lack of grammar and spelling of the reviewers than I am at the thought of this bitch Lori Jareo getting her ass handed to her by Lucas's attorneys (hey, maybe she's got herself one of them intarweb lawyers!)

I want to know why Amazon is allowing this in the first place! I mean, one bloody glance at the entry page on Amazon was all I needed to know exactly what this is -- without even reading a single actual paragraph of the "book"!

This isn't just plagiarism -- it's bloody copyright infringement on arguably the largest fiction franchise out there! (Star Wars ranks right up there with Lord of the Rings, but I don't know if it's bigger than LOTR, just cuz LOTR has some twenty or thirty years on Star Wars).

Well, methinks George Lucas is gonna hafta SMACK A BITCH soon. Holy shit.... exploding splooge!

*sits back to watch the wank unfold*


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[info]major_dallas
2006-04-24 07:22 am UTC (link)
Don't forget the inevitable theories of slavery and abortions in China. Now, Barb's responsible for all that :P

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[info]dreamworld
2006-04-24 12:43 pm UTC (link)
Yes, she's just bitter because Barb's series started out H/H but it didn't stay that way.

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[info]sheep
2006-04-24 01:44 pm UTC (link)
They have been betrayed twice!! All we need to do now is get some one to interview Barb and call them delusional, she will agree deny this, and then their double betrayal will be complete.

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[info]estrella
2006-04-24 10:16 am UTC (link)
Principessa just told me ezine were the equivalent of printing a fanfic in the PC printer, i.e. bad printing quality.
BTW, don't you agree 60 dollars for 30 pages is too expensive, we are talking of the price of two hard back HP books like OotP or HBP when they were just edited. Should I believe there is not profit? Only if Barb book was printed in gold pages! O_o

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[info]esclaramonde
2006-04-24 03:16 pm UTC (link)
What? I never said that.

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