June 6, 2000

11:33 PM

The Good News: Iron Chef comes to New York June 25th with a two-hour special...
The Bad News: Fuji TV is pulling a "Fox", serving C&D's to all Iron Chef fansites with "Fuji content". But what do you expect of a Japanese broadcaster who prohibited English-language subtitling of its shows?
BTW, if you feel as P.O.'ed as I do, you might want to just skip the big special and see the results here.
posted by wendell (3 comments total)

I'm especially disappointed to see that it's the law firm of Morrison and Foerster issuing this C&D. Every other time I've ever heard of "The Mighty MoFo", they've been on the side of those fighting for internet freedoms, including helping out a number of Scientology critics.
posted by harmful at 6:02 AM on June 7, 2000

Rock Crab!? What kind of challenge is that? I remember they had a Battle Brains episode where they had to come up with a desert made from brains! Now there's a challenge. They probably decided to go easy on the American guy.
posted by Nyarlathotep at 8:04 AM on June 7, 2000

*sigh*
I didn't go look at the results (and I'm a bit sad to know what the ingredient will be) but it blows that everyone is on such an amazing C&D kick these days. As for MoFo, all I can say is that Big Corporate Law is seldom about issues, it's about clients.
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 10:55 AM on June 7, 2000