smiles, everyone! smiles!

Warning: Creepy. (Thanks, nattotastic!)

I smell the hand of the RIAA in this

Record shops: Used CDs? Ihre papieren, bitte!:

There are a few things lawmakers have decided really ought to be handled with the "care and oversight" that only the government can provide: e.g., tax collection, radioactive materials, biohazards, guns, and CDs. CDs? No, I'm not talking about financial Certificates of Deposit, though that might make more sense. I'm talking about Compact Discs.

New "pawn shop" laws are springing up across the United States that will make selling your used CDs at the local record shop something akin to getting arrested. No, you won't spend any time in jail, but you'll certainly feel like a criminal once the local record shop makes copies of all of your identifying information and even collects your fingerprints. Such is the state of affairs in Florida, which now has the dubious distinction of being so anal about the sale of used music CDs that record shops there are starting to get out of the business of dealing with used content because they don't want to pay a $10,000 bond for the "right" to treat their customers like criminals.

I can't say it any better than Film Threat...

...so I'm just going to paste it here:

"LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD" - RATED PG-13?!?!?! (2007-05-03)
What the hell is wrong with Fox? We are once again reminded of the travesty that was "Alien Vs. Predator". Two perfectly R-rated franchises merged together for one crappy PG-13 nightmare. Now our beloved "Die Hard" franchise is getting the same treatment. We can't say we're excited about a non-foul mouth, non-violent, John McClane. That's what made him so much fun in the first place.

How many times can we say it; R-rated films make fucking money! Look at the "Matrix" films or "300" as examples. Better yet, look at the fucking "Die Hard" trilogy. There is a reason why there are so many of them - they made money. And they were R-rated you silly bastards. I guess this is another summer movie that is bound to disappoint.