Sunday, November 28, 2010

Biel Gets Squashed by "The Man"

A while back I remember seeing some scuttlebutt on Twitter about problems our favorite Videostress, Biel, was having with Summit ["The Man" in this case]. I was deeply disturbed by this... It's obvious they have someone on their payroll who's the offspring of a friend of a friend of some higher up and since they can't seem to find anything worthwhile for this particular moron to do, they put said moron in charge of squashing the little people - that's us and our general ilk, in this case. Worse yet, I think genuinely Summit likes squashing the little people.


Even Twitarded has had a run in with those schmucks and to this day they continue to flag our shit on Zazzle as "copyright infringement," and Zazzle erases our merch. Poof! What. The. Fuck.??? How is an original design infringing on their property. Last I checked, we owned that shit and unless they have copyrighted "Twi"--which I fucking doubt--then they can go fucking suck it. Yup, that's what I said Scummit. Suck it. Hard. Twitarded sure has had its past issues with Summit and I'm sure we'll continue to have more as long as we continue to blog about or use logos that they inexplicably claim ownership to.

The more we find out about Summit Entertainment, the less we like them. If it were anything other than the folks who brought us the Twilight Saga movies, we'd probably boycott them forever! They appear to have a sordid history doing their best to make people want to burn down their headquarters. Like I said, they enjoy squashing the little people.

And sadly, now our friend and uber-talented video-maker Biel has found herself in Scummit's crosshiars. Frankly, I think it's because they're jealous. The don't have the mad vid skillz to make thousands of horny RPattz fans dry hump their computers, so they're trying to shut her down. I recently had an email conversation with Biel to find out what the fuck happened. I was seriously really worried... please don't take this away from us!



Evidently, Summit has given Biel two strikes for copyright infringement and some of her videos have been deleted. This makes me very sad. I'm not sure about you guys, but I often watch some of her older videos when I'm in need of a hefty shot of Rob-goodness. She's yet to get a 3rd strike, but if she does, her channels will be suspended and deleted for good. This can happen at any time and there's nothing she can do to stop them.

It's not the deletion of the videos that's the real pisser here. Those can always be re-uploaded. It's the months and months of wonderful comments and messages associated with these videos. And I know everyone loves a good Biel video so that's a lot of fucking stuff to lose!

Biel knows Scummit owns the copyright to footage she's used in her videos, but she's not making a penny off this stuff - and she could have easily monetized her videos by including advertising. She does it for fun and obviously her love for Rob. She's not a professional video editor (which I was surprised to find out) and is totally a closet Rob-lover - this is her outlet! An outlet that I appreciate sososososo much!

Early on in her video making days, a friend suggested she include this verbiage on her videos: Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

I guess Summit doesn't give a shit about this. They are clearly a group of bullying assholes and if it wasn't for all of us, their movies wouldn't be successful. Fuck you Summit. Let Biel have her fun. I need her fun. We all need her fun!

If you haven't subscribed to Biel's YouTube channels, here are the links.

Petitbiel
everLUSTneverFOUND
IamBiel

And below...just a sampling of my favorites. I'm sure you've all seen them but, fuck me, they're all so scrumptious and well, get 'em while you can. Who knows when the big, bad Summit will take all this wonderfulness away from us. Let's hope it doesn't happen.

Viva! Biel







24 comments:

  1. Yeah, apparently we do share a brain. RANDOM! Your post is a whole shitload more detailed than mine, basically I was being a lazy asshole today and didn't have it in me to say much more.

    LOVE BIEL. SUMMIT can SUCK IT!

    xo J

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  2. Biel is such a talent. You hit the nail on the head Latchkey. I'm enjoying Biel's videos while I can. I seriously hope this not the end of them.

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  3. Oh how I heart Miss Biel. She was one of the first video type peeps I followed when I fell into this fandom, our fandom, you know which fandom, the fandom that Scummit just doesn't get....I am blethering now.

    Her vids are fabulous. I agree, when you maybe question your love for this whole saga, I return to her library of work and *ping* all is right in the world once more. It really would be a complete and utter travesty if her work was deleted.

    X

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  4. Dear Scummit,

    Way to go. Keep shitting down the throats of the people who made you. That's right. We fucking MADE you! Without the Twilight franchise no one would probably even know who the hell you are, you asshats.

    It's bad enough that you took advantage of Twifans by offering 50 thousand versions of NM on DVD. Why? To make even MORE money? Really? Take a fucking ethics course already, you greedy bastards.

    Why don't you concentrate all of your C & D efforts and money on the people who are copying your movies and selling them for profit? Leave the fans alone, Scummit. People make videos like this because, well, mainly because Rob is hot but also because they LOVE 'Twilight'. And by 'Twilight' I mostly mean the books and Rob and Jackson and Kellan and Peter... It's not because they're trying to take advantage of your poor little company which is obviously run by idiots. Take one minute to realize that not only is Biel not making a profit off of these images but she is actually giving you free advertisement for your products. That's a lot more than you deserve.

    Sincerely,
    Me

    P.S. SUCK IT!

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  5. Dear Summit, Two words: FREE ADVERTISING.... you POSERS!!!!!!

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  6. First of all, I'm new so I did not know about Zazzle-gate. I hope to god you got a lawyer to write a letter to them and they stopped pulling your own drawings! That's total BS!!!

    Second, everyone hurry and download the newest FREE Real player and download these videos to your computer before they're also taken away.

    Third, I had something taken from my YouTube channel once and I think it was total BS!!! I "found" my way into a sound check before an Adam Lambert concert and I filmed a few songs. People post these all the time, sound checks and concert videos. In fact a bunch of people got together and paid a fan (suz526) to follow him all over Europe and she's posting every song from every concert on her channel right now.

    ANYWAY!!!! As you might've guessed by now they pulled mine. Why? I don't know, but possibly it might be because he replaced some of the words to "Whole Lotta Love" to "I need to get laid" but SO WHAT? It was totally cool! So now I have a strike against my channel which I'm totally pissed at. It's completely unnecessary. It's like free advertising for god's sake.

    Anyway, back to downloading the videos for myself.

    GRRR!

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  7. Scummit can lick my asshole. I hope they are socking away all their Twilight money because they will never see another cent of my money. I swear that company is run by 2 feces-throwing monkeys.

    Biel is ridiculously talented & I make the strangest noises when I watch her videos.

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  8. Let's go on zazzle right now and make up some shirts that say 'Scummit can suck it' on the front and 'free biel' on the back. Fuckers...

    They aren't getting any more of my money after twi either... not that I was gonna go see 'Red' or 'Stepin Up 3D' anyway... Hope those execs are stashing their paychecks cause they got two more years to try to make a buck...

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  9. LONG LIVE BIEL!
    I saw this a little bit back too and I was speechless. How do they have the right to do that when she isn't making any money??? Oh I forgot because they are a buncha old white guys with a lot of money...the ones that call the shots... oh dear, here goes the political rant, I'll stop now.

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  10. This just makes me so sad... Biel's work is so amazing and her love of her subject just shines through in everything she does... She could have easily turned a nice profit on these vids, but that's not what it's all about for her. Sadly, Summit just doesn't care about any of that. I love the Saga (even though let's face it - the movies are not the books) but I will be glad when we can collectively wash our hands of that corporate ogre.

    We love you, Biel!!! xo

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  11. I was in bed and took one last look at my Crackberry and what LKW wrote about Biel made me leap up and run downstairs to the laptop so I could write:

    FUCK YOU, SUMMIT!

    The world's shittiest production company before and since Twilight. Hell, they have done their best to fuck Twilight up, too, and the Twi movies survived despite Summit (and their excreable taste), not because of them.
    Biel is not just a closet Rob fan after my own heart who makes vids that take the breath away, literally. She is a true artist.
    No wonder Summit would rather mug her than reap the heaps and heaps of free publicity, as Carol said above. She makes them look like the Philistines that they are. They're like Roger Corman without the talent and imagination.
    But really, the sweetest revenge is seeing Summit crank out one rancid "teen" movie after another, some of which have already sunk like stones, and more of which undoubtedly will.
    Hell, even Miramax went down the tubes, and it at least some super flicks to show for its efforts (along with some crap). So wait a few years at the longest, after BD is done with, and then sit back and wait for Summit to sink like the fucking kidney stones they are.

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  12. I was thinking that maybe Scummit has a problem with the 'hotness' of Biel's videos. Scummit is only interested in making as much money as they can from Robert Pattison and to Scummit, he is 'Edward' and Edward is chaste. Did Scummit produce Remember Me. Just a thought.

    1. I was never able to get into the Harry Potter books, even tho I tried a number of times, and so I was never interested in seeing the movies. However, if I had seen the HP movie with Robert, I would have been more than just a cougar, I would have been a full on pedophile!!!! Cedric is gorgeous. Dayum, that boy was hot when he was 14.

    2. I, too, am ready to be done with Scummit when the BD movies are done. I think they took advantage of SM with Twilight and New Moon and really fucked it up with Eclipse. I'm going to get the 2-disc special edition of Eclipse but just so I can oogle Robporn over and over again. IMHO, Eclipse was a big fail on so many levels and I think that's why SM decided to get really hands on involved with BD. Now that she has about as much money as God and just about as much influence, Scummit isn't going to be able to let Melissa Rosenberg make MR's version of BD.

    3. Is there anything we can do to get Biel's back here. I love her videos so much, yes they're hot, but they are also so well done, she is simply brilliant. I go over to 50shades and watch those 2 videos til i cum!!! LMFAO Not really, but I 'cum' close. Seriously, they have inspired some very hot dreams!!!

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  13. This was such a shame when the news broke. I have been such a big fan of Biels ORIGINAL videos. She is such a talent, and I love that she is AD FREE. She doesn't make a cent, yet she has to pull her hard work off of the interwebs? Summit is really making it difficult to support their movie house. Do they remember what it was like to be a small company, relying on the lesser folk? Obviously not.

    Get your head out of your McDuck pile of gold coins and support a creative individual who is doing nothing but enhancing your product for NO personal monetary gain!!


    VW: constf

    Summit constf up with their mightier than thou attitude.

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  14. This turn of events just makes me all the more eager for the moment when Rob is able to leave Scummit in the dust it rose from. They have nothing going other than Twilight and they are sucking it dry to infuse their shitty projects.

    How can they not embrace the passion their own franchise has fed? Biel is amazing. They should be out to hire her, for fuck's sake, not muzzle her.

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  15. Stuff like this just disgusts me. Big business just wants to take everything away from everyone, even our rights to entertain ourselves with ZERO profit. I'm glad you did a post on it to get the word out there about how life sucking this company can be. I guess it's appropriate that Summit was the company to pick up the vampire franchise. Seems fitting.

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  16. I recently read on another blog *coughs*TheColdShower*coughs* about a compilation of vids that are being yanked that was inspired by the ostracism of Biel and her amazing vids.

    I agree with @TK about Scummit.. "swear that company is run by 2 feces-throwing monkeys" although I believe it is more likely that said monkeys spend a lot of time eating the feces.

    Hopefully, those cock-blocking Scummit assholes will take the advice of one of my favorite sayings and eat shit and die.

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  17. Late to the party as always, I had no idea Summit were such a bunch of assholes. ITA with all the comments above. Biel is an extraordinary talent who has done nothing but generate free positive publicity for one of their biggest stars. My own personal favorite is "Beware the Dog"....I've spent some happy alone time with that vid, let me tell you...That video alone should guarantee her a place in the fanvid Hall of Fame! Keep on screwing yourself, Summit, and when your meal ticket (ie Rob and Kristen) is done with you, you'll be wishing you had Biel back!!

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  18. Thanks for the eyecandy! Biel does a great job. Some of the videography is better from her than the original. Maybe they're just jealous that she has better pic quality?? ;P

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  19. Fucking Scummit! It really is fucking ridiculous that some overpayed brat is been told to take down Biel's videos. This whole Twilight Saga has been the fucking perfect internet storm. If it were not for all the fan hype on the internets it would never have been so big. I have been part of this online craze with Twilight from the very beginning and I have watched the beast grow...the fans made it do this not fucking Scummit. This whole fucking thing has been driven by us the insanely obsessed fans. Scummit can lick TK's and my asshole...and that is meant to sound as gross as it does...because, well, they are the epitome of Corporate fucking grossness.

    Biel we love you baby!

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  20. Scummit SUCKS and I'm with everyone else who will never give another cent to that company post-Twilight. Lucky bastards, greedy bastards --- just plain bastards.

    Meanwhile, I just enjoyed that first Biel video... ome... crooked smirks, his smiles, the angst, the intensity! Gah Gah Gah!

    (Although, wtf is going on w/ his Eclipse hair? How did I forget how stoopid it looks?)

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  21. Summit can suck it! You know they would have sunk without Twilight... give it time, two years post Breaking Dawn they will throw out some Twilight merch b/c no one will be going to see their other shit and they'll be desperate for money. We can all just sit back and laugh at their stupid asses. I hope Beil doesn't get permanently pulled that would be such bull shit!

    And WTF are they doing even sitting on Blogger, Zazzle, Youtube, etc anyways??? Don't they have better shit to do like make shitty movies? I need to run out and buy Furry Vengeance right NOW!!

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  22. I was in bed and took one last look at my Crackberry and what LKW wrote about Biel made me leap up and run downstairs to the laptop so I could write:

    FUCK YOU, SUMMIT!

    The world's shittiest production company before and since Twilight. Hell, they have done their best to fuck Twilight up, too, and the Twi movies survived despite Summit (and their excreable taste), not because of them.
    Biel is not just a closet Rob fan after my own heart who makes vids that take the breath away, literally. She is a true artist.
    No wonder Summit would rather mug her than reap the heaps and heaps of free publicity, as Carol said above. She makes them look like the Philistines that they are. They're like Roger Corman without the talent and imagination.
    But really, the sweetest revenge is seeing Summit crank out one rancid "teen" movie after another, some of which have already sunk like stones, and more of which undoubtedly will.
    Hell, even Miramax went down the tubes, and it at least some super flicks to show for its efforts (along with some crap). So wait a few years at the longest, after BD is done with, and then sit back and wait for Summit to sink like the fucking kidney stones they are.

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  23. First of all, I'm new so I did not know about Zazzle-gate. I hope to god you got a lawyer to write a letter to them and they stopped pulling your own drawings! That's total BS!!!

    Second, everyone hurry and download the newest FREE Real player and download these videos to your computer before they're also taken away.

    Third, I had something taken from my YouTube channel once and I think it was total BS!!! I "found" my way into a sound check before an Adam Lambert concert and I filmed a few songs. People post these all the time, sound checks and concert videos. In fact a bunch of people got together and paid a fan (suz526) to follow him all over Europe and she's posting every song from every concert on her channel right now.

    ANYWAY!!!! As you might've guessed by now they pulled mine. Why? I don't know, but possibly it might be because he replaced some of the words to "Whole Lotta Love" to "I need to get laid" but SO WHAT? It was totally cool! So now I have a strike against my channel which I'm totally pissed at. It's completely unnecessary. It's like free advertising for god's sake.

    Anyway, back to downloading the videos for myself.

    GRRR!

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