At the risk of upsetting my fellow geek-folk, I have to admit that I think the X-Men movies are crap and the last movie to fill me with as much apathy as X-Men Origins: Wolverine probably starred Keanu Reevezzzzz.
But what does interest me is online stupidity, those moments of such arrogance/ignorance that one can barely stifle the chuckles. And it just so happens that good old X-Men has provided such a story.
I'll let the BBC website take up the matter:
"A US columnist is out of a job after posting an online review of an illegally downloaded copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine."Roger Friedman, who wrote the piece on his regular column, had worked at the Fox news website for 10 years.
"The journalist wrote in his column on Thursday that downloading the 20th Century Fox film was 'so much easier than going out in the rain'."
Here in the Porter Novelli digital igloo we have hundreds of unwritten rules - don't astroturf, don't pretend to be someone you're not, don't write in technobabble. But top of the list is don't be a bloody idiot.
The rights (pun intended) and wrongs of piracy - or whatever you want to call it - are for another post on another day. But in our increasingly digital and even-more-increasingly social media lives it's is so important to think about what we're saying and what the implications might be.
Friedman, in bragging about how he got his hands on the movie in question, was incredibly stupid. But to do it in his Fox News column is frankly mind-boggling.
Remember - be careful out there, digi-folk.
(Photo: ET Online)
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