"Star Wars Kid" on CNN

[guyver01]

'Star Wars Kid' born out of private moment on tape

It was a moment of unadulterated goofiness, the kind of thing anyone might do with no one watching: A teen from Quebec videotaped himself as he pretended to wield a light saber "Star Wars" style.

But that private moment went public, very public, when classmates at his high school found the tape in a cabinet and uploaded it onto an Internet file-sharing site this past spring.

Now Ghyslain Raza is known far and wide as the "Star Wars Kid," with a fan base that only seems to be growing -- even though he doesn't want the attention.

 

[brigden]

"I guess I can feel his pain because it's so big," says Joshua Griffin, editor of TheForce.net, a Web site of "Star Wars" trivia and gossip. "But part of me thinks he should enjoy this. Drop the lawsuit and embrace this."

That is the right attitude.

 

[Amused]

Yeah, he was on Fox News a couple of days ago.

 

[simms]

Hahaha... Good old remixes. 🙂 So what do you think will happen?

--Simon

 

[Eli]

That's crazy. He's going to end up a celebrity.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: Eli
That's crazy. He's going to end up a celebrity.

i'd say he is already a celebrity.

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: Eli
That's crazy. He's going to end up a celebrity.

i'd say he is already a celebrity.

and not in a good way...

 

[Lonyo]

Still others applaud the lawsuit, and hope it will help set stricter Internet privacy standards.

"We need to ask 'What kind of culture are we going to have?"' says Lynn Schofield Clark, director of the Teens and the New Media @ Home project at the University of Colorado. "I'm hoping we're able to be a society where we do provide people's right to privacy and dignity."

Yeah, lets make something done on public proprty (schools camera I'm guessing) and left in the public domain (they didn't invade his house to find it) sufddenly become private property.

If' he'd kept the video private and done it with his own camera, there might be a case, but it was public property.

 

[Spac3d]

That kid is a total loser.

 

[RayW69]

I know my man Bubb Rubb isn't suing anyone 😀

 

[nick1985]

effin dork

 

[Spooner]

those videos still make me laugh 🙂

 

[jurzdevil]

Originally posted by: RayW69
I know my man Bubb Rubb isn't suing anyone 😀

WOOO WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Still others applaud the lawsuit, and hope it will help set stricter Internet privacy standards.

"We need to ask 'What kind of culture are we going to have?"' says Lynn Schofield Clark, director of the Teens and the New Media @ Home project at the University of Colorado. "I'm hoping we're able to be a society where we do provide people's right to privacy and dignity."

Yeah, lets make something done on public proprty (schools camera I'm guessing) and left in the public domain (they didn't invade his house to find it) sufddenly become private property.

If' he'd kept the video private and done it with his own camera, there might be a case, but it was public property.

they invaded his private folder where he kept the video.
I read on this other article that the kids took it from his private folder in the filing cabinet.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: virtualgames0

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Still others applaud the lawsuit, and hope it will help set stricter Internet privacy standards.

"We need to ask 'What kind of culture are we going to have?"' says Lynn Schofield Clark, director of the Teens and the New Media @ Home project at the University of Colorado. "I'm hoping we're able to be a society where we do provide people's right to privacy and dignity."

Yeah, lets make something done on public proprty (schools camera I'm guessing) and left in the public domain (they didn't invade his house to find it) sufddenly become private property.

If' he'd kept the video private and done it with his own camera, there might be a case, but it was public property.

they invaded his private folder where he kept the video.
I read on this other article that the kids took it from his private folder in the filing cabinet.

Agreed, WHERE the video was MADE is NOT relevant. WHERE IT WAS STORED was.

The fact that he made the video on public property does not make it public domain.

by that logic if i did an AMAZING painting on public property, does that painting become public domain? NO.

 

[Triumph]

That kid is a loser, plain and simple.

 

[yhelothar]

why is he a loser? because he doesn't like his fame? everyone has their own likes and dislikes, who are you to judge him?

 

[MartyMcFly3]

Claiming that their son has been humiliated, his parents are suing the parents of the teens who put the video on the Web

When in doubt, sue... :disgust:

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: Triumph
That kid is a loser, plain and simple.

why because he looked stupid? and there has NEVER EVER been a private moment in your life where you didn't look stupid?

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: Triumph
That kid is a loser, plain and simple.

why because he looked stupid? and there has NEVER EVER been a private moment in your life where you didn't look stupid?

Bit of a difference. I look stupid when I wake up in the morning for example. Nobody over the age of 10 should be pretending to be darth maul though. It's not exactly socially acceptable.

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: Triumph
That kid is a loser, plain and simple.

why because he looked stupid? and there has NEVER EVER been a private moment in your life where you didn't look stupid?

Bit of a difference. I look stupid when I wake up in the morning for example. Nobody over the age of 10 should be pretending to be darth maul though. It's not exactly socially acceptable.

<me takes off darth maul costume>

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: Triumph
That kid is a loser, plain and simple.

why because he looked stupid? and there has NEVER EVER been a private moment in your life where you didn't look stupid?

Bit of a difference. I look stupid when I wake up in the morning for example. Nobody over the age of 10 should be pretending to be darth maul though. It's not exactly socially acceptable.

was a period of time not too long ago when spending too much time on the computer was considered "socially unacceptable".

 

[MazerRackham]

That kid should've had a cameo role in SW:KotOR 🙂 Hahah that would have been GREAT!

 

[SuepaFly]

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: Triumph
That kid is a loser, plain and simple.

why because he looked stupid? and there has NEVER EVER been a private moment in your life where you didn't look stupid?

Bit of a difference. I look stupid when I wake up in the morning for example. Nobody over the age of 10 should be pretending to be darth maul though. It's not exactly socially acceptable.

You are an a$$. He's a loser because he doesn't follow social standards? This kid (as I have read in the past) was always made fun of in school. And now, you (a part of society) are calling him a loser (a well as a couple others above) and you expect him to subscribe to the ideals society has set forth? Really, you need to get out of the high school mentality. Being a loser is a long term ailment, not one incident that defines a person as a loser.