Editor’s Note:  I regret to inform you that am unable at the present time to disguise my snarkiness over this story.  My sincerest apologies to all of you who are looking for higher-minded discourse, but this is just fucking stupid and irritating, especially since I can count on seeing this non-story all over my local news, network news and CNN.  For those of you who cannot deal with anger, I suggest you look elsewhere.  For the rest, you might want to employ some sort of splash guard before continuing on, lest you get a bit of vitriol on you. . .

Nothing like watching the media go nuts over a story.  Nothing like watching the media prove itself to be the tool of corporate interests.  Yeah, I love that.

To whit, the latest scandal in the SiCKO saga: the film (clutch the pearls!) has been leaked on them Innernets:

Advertising Age - Michael Moore’s ‘Sicko’ Leaked Onto Web

If the breach is as wide as it appears — and this reporter downloaded a copy and watched it late Thursday night with ease — Moore, and his distributor, The Weinstein Company, have a every film maker’s worst marketing nightmare on their hands — how to persuade people to go to the theater to see a show that’s available free on the Internet. (Officials at the Weinstein Company were unavailable for comment late Thursday evening.)

Ooh!  Well, that your dumb ass was able to download the movie is, in fact, proof of. . .  something.  Maybe that you bribed your kid into showing you how (or just doing it for you, which is the more likely option).  Fucking Tool.

Every single, solitary movie that has been pre-released on DVDs to advertisers and marketers has been cracked and leaked since there have been commercially-available DVD burners.  How many movies would that be?  All of them.  Guess what?  There is positively no definable evidence whatsoever that leaked movies have prevented even one person from going to the movies.  Certainly, the market for over-priced movies and rape-room prices on popcorn has gone no where.

And in a few weeks, when the movie has positively ablated all previous records for documentary box-office takings including his own - when it’s painfully obvious the media has once again been proven entirely wrong - you’ll see the media come back with, “Whoa!  That was a close one for Micheal Moore!  Incredible that he could make any money at all after that!!”

Don’t believe the hype: they’re trying to pour cold water on the movie by letting everyone know that you can get it for free.  They’re making it seem like a big deal, when in actual fact, the biggest deal is that the media is advertising for bootleggers!  All in the name of higher profits for Big Pharma.  The media is complicit in encouraging bootlegging and stealing the profits of one business because they’re under the thumb of another.

Here’s a joke for you:

Anyone who would know how to get that movie already has, and would doubtless have had it with our without the media’s help.  The rest will still have to pay.  I bet you most who have it for free go see it in the theaters, too.  Nothing’s changed.

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