<em>Wolverine:</em> Steal This Movie

What was on Roger Friedman's mind? Perhaps he is a wise guy and cut-up and just found pirating from his own company a bit of irresistible troublemaking.
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Yesterday, Roger Friedman, a columnist for Fox News, was canned by Fox brass Roger Ailes and John Moody. Outside of those facing death and mayhem, Friedman's date with the pitiless Ailes and the I'm-bad-too Moody probably meant he had the worst day of anyone in New York.

What got Friedman into difficulty was reviewing a movie, Wolverine, produced by Twentieth Century Fox, one of the companies owned by News Corp., which also owns Fox News (Wolverine stars Hugh Jackman, a close friend of News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch and his wife, Wendi). The difficult part is that he reviewed, however favorably, a pirated copy of Wolverine. This was not just a copyright theft, but a theft of his own company’s copyright (curiously, he was merely using what his company owns for his own company’s benefit.)

What was on Friedman’s mind? Perhaps he is a wise guy and cut-up and just found pirating from his own company a bit of irresistible troublemaking. Or, perhaps, like virtually everyone else under some ever-rising age, he just found it too easy and obvious not to do. He didn't even have to download—just clicked and streamed it.

That was actually part of his review—the manic or childlike delight he took in describing how simple it was to watch the pirated movie.

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