tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625594239711628531.post1652682611606733633..comments2023-10-22T04:29:53.403-07:00Comments on ah, mephistophelis.: Hitler's Anti-Piracy Rant (a parody) to be removed from Youtube for -- copyright violation?!?a female Fausthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09449770320721100591noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625594239711628531.post-21388057594209982552010-05-25T15:11:14.679-07:002010-05-25T15:11:14.679-07:00I think this is actually the best of the parodies ...I think this is actually the best of the parodies of this scene, and I've seen about 10^9 of them.<br /><br />Outstanding feature: subtitled dialogue reasonably plausible to a non-speaker of German (or someone who doesn't speak it well enough to follow a rant in a thick regional dialect by a madman).<br /><br />Best moments: when he says "We might as well be Communists like Stallman"<br /><br />(where the actual words are, "I should have shot all the officers, like Stalin.")<br /><br />Stallman, of course, is one of the key developers of the original UNIX and key promoter of the open source movement. He's actually an extremely conservative libertarian and admirer of Ayn Rand, not a Communist. This is no guarantee against being called a Communist, but still...James R MacLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14721224895163793981noreply@blogger.com