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DMCA Used To Try And Silence Movie Reviewer

BJ and Julia Davis, director and screenwriter of deathless cinematic masterpiece Forget About It, are attempting to silence Gregory Conley’s negative review with a Mardi Gras of meaningless claims, such as "bashing our actors" and the classic "linking to our websites without authorization." Such missives typically read as if they were written with crayola on […]

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BJ and Julia Davis, director and screenwriter of deathless cinematic masterpiece Forget About It, are attempting to silence Gregory Conley's negative review with a Mardi Gras of meaningless claims, such as "bashing our actors" and the classic "linking to our websites without authorization."

Such missives typically read as if they were written with crayola on a napkin, and this one doesn't disappoint:

"As we understand, the administrator of this website is acting on behalf of the group of recently-convicted individuals, in order to undermine the commercial potential of the feature film “Forget About It”... Gregory Conley is obviously engaging in fraud and acting as an imposter, which will result in the most serious legal ramifications for his actions."

Any threat has to be taken seriously, even if it's obviously geared to intimidate using malformed DMCA requests cut-and-pasted into rambling conspiracy theories, but I wouldn't get the lawyers out for this one quite yet. With a title like Forget About It, the jokes write themselves.

Filmmaker suing me over bad review [Your Video Store Shelf via BoingBoing]