COPYRIGHT 21 JUNE 20--?

Have you ever been involved in a television production?

Have you ever been involved in a just compensation or just remuneration dispute?

Have you ever dreamed of $700,000, with $140,000 more every year for as long as the syndication deals last?

Have you ever digitally made a mock-up credits reel intended to be used for a television pilot and only for a television pilot?

Can you finish the sentence: "I didn't know for a long time about my rights being infringed because I...."?

Have you ever been born in February?

Weren't you one of the people who fought against the copyright complaint filed 20 June 2018 by one Gill Dettweiler?

Have you been to a television school, and aren't you banging your head on the wall because you weren't paying enough attention to the course on media law with reference to the SEVEN BIGGEST MISTAKES relating to the foundation of a small production company?

Did you ever help out an acquaintance and a friend of an acquaintance, having met them by chance in a bakery restaurant that also served liquor alongside the knishes and borscht?

Did they (the acquaintance and the friend of the acquaintance) buy you a drink, knowing as they did you were looking for work, and consequently low on funds, and give you the inside scoop on the television pilot they were raising funds for?

Have you ever been blissfully unaware of something for years only to have it brought to your attention whereupon you found yourself losing sleep and imagining all that money can buy?

Have you ever been born on the 7th of any month?

Did you imagine your life to possibly have been different than it currently is, and have you ever tried to enumerate the number of paths which would have arrived at a greater net happiness for yourself, and have you ever lost count doing so?

Have you ever had a 'thing' for computers that caused you to learn how to code in C++ at the age of seventeen?

Have you ever killed a friend of an acquaintance in cold blood?

Have you ever considered settling down and the purchase of a house in the suburbs?

Have you ever failed a driving test?

Have you ever failed at nearly everything you ever tried to do that was prospectively worthwhile?

Have you ever been in a court of law, risibly arguing a case of copyright?

Did you ever in all your years imagine what prison is really like, and find later that you'd gotten it almost entirely wrong?

Can you match images with music?

Have you ever seen ordinary Japanese commercial television, between, say, the hours of seven and nine on any given evening?

Have you read Bleak House, A Frolic of His Own, and The Recognitions? Did you learn anything from these books?

What would be your unrehearsed reaction to someone who told you on the telephone: "I'm sorry, this is all water under the bridge. We had some kind of a verbal agreement. I remember you said: 'Whatever?'"

Did you ever wake up one morning after having had a dream about an acquaintance in which he bought you a drink, after which you noticed you had not been wearing clothes for quite some time?

Have you ever spent a drunken evening writing computer code?

Has the result ever been thirty seconds long, with public domain music, dummy credits, stock photography treated with tons of effects, and all from open source software, and (unfortunately for you) fully moddable?

Have you ever lived in a chaotic house with several strangers?

Have you ever read an online newspaper article that changed your life?

What is your favourite special effect?

Have you ever seen, in your mind's eye, your income quadruple? Wasn't it a glorious sight?

Ever discover you are entitled to a percentage of a profit, profit being some six trillion yen?

Did you?

Have you?

Can't you answer?

Have you ever searched online for information about copyright lawsuits?

Ever cold-called a law firm?

Have you ever had a lawyer surprise an acquaintance with a telephone call?

Did the lawyer later tell you that the acquaintance could barely recall who you were?

How familiar does the statement "I never thought we'd have to plan for that, you see, it upsets our whole business model" sound?

How many times have you failed? Have you answered that question already?

What do you think of childbirth, basinets, baby food, short pants, colourful toys, television, meals with family, schools, nudity, pussy, tits, petting, humiliation, cruelty, graduations, and work, work, and work?

What do you think about castles, mansions, yachts, race horses, bottomless bank accounts, European tours, royalty, princesses, models and actresses, space travel, and power, power, and power?

What was your first clue?

Do you like problems that have no solutions?

Didn't you once write a game with pillars that shifted regularly left and right and up and down and wasn't the goal to get from top left to lower right? Wasn't that a solutionless, and indeed pointless, game?

When you turned over to the acquaintance and the friend of the acquaintance the program of the dummy opening credits of their television pilot were you thinking or were you not thinking that things could go far, farther than you ever imagined?

How much voyeurism have you committed, and how much shame ensued from these events?

Have you ever seen a television show (running four seasons) about a wacky gang of caterers who cater to the high and the low, whether a wedding, a funeral, a frat dissolution party, a bubble boy birthday, a terrorist meeting, a G-20, all the while having wacky problems with their wacky friends and wacky parents and (in one case) a wacky (and smart-assed) daughter, and was the show in Japanese?

And have you ever remembered how a television program had been explained to you as being about a small group of sombre morticians who cater to the high and low, whether etc., and that it would quite obviously be in English?

Have you ever been suicidal and hopeless even though you had serious trouble knowing exactly what you were grieving for?

Do you have any idea how long it takes to get through a copyright case in which multiple countries and principalities are involved?

Have you ever considered being voluntarily committed?

Have you ever had someone recommend voluntary commitment?

Has anyone ever begun proceedings intended to have you involuntarily committed?

Have you ever used Facebook?

Have you made 'friends' with acquaintances?

Has an acquaintance posted humblebrag on Facebook about how difficult it is to be suddenly wealthy, 'because Japan'?

Have you ever walked around for an entire day thinking about the phrase 'Your past comes back to haunt you'?

Do you regret what you know and wish you did not know?

Are you involved in a legal dispute and are you at the extreme limits of your knowledge?

Are you currently paranoid? If so, when did you start feeling that way?

How old are you? Seriously, how old are you?

How much time have you spent on this, and what's it worth per word?

Where did you go wrong?

Didn't you think, weren't you certain, that the television program would go nowhere?

When you saw it on Facebook, did you at first think it all looked so familiar? Were you convinced after the thirty seconds?

Can you recite the alphabet? How about backwards?

Can you count the number of times you've been black-out drunk?

When you told your only friend: "I've seen a Japanese television show that used my graphics for the credits, only they changed the text of my credits, and they could do it because I gave all the code to them instead of a rendering," how did he respond? Did he say: "Did you get any money from it?"

How's the lawsuit coming along?

When you called up your acquaintance, were you nervous? Did you know how to broach the subject?

Did you actually say: "See you in court?"

Are you more sap than sucker or more sucker than sap?

How did you track down the friend of the acquaintance? How did you find his phone number, and then his address?

Did you think you could get away with it?

Was your happiest moment one minute long? Or are you, as an Archimedean, a believer in the fact that one's happiest moment must be of an infinitesimal duration? Or do you ignore that logical conclusion, saying instead: With a bottle of wine I ran down a hill, and I could not fall, and I was perfect, for one minute?

Why were you prepared to take (it) out (on) the friend of the acquaintance rather than the acquaintance?

Do you think that since a court case snails along, one is justified in seeking an almost vigilante justice, or do you think it's much simpler to conclude jealousy was the root cause? Did I shock you there?

Did you ever feel the hairs of your neck stand up like you were dreaming of a dark room when you saw something on a screen that reminded you uncannily of something dimly remembered?

How would you get inside a locked house in the middle of the night?

If you know that a certain individual has a small dog as watch dog, how will you incapacitate the dog? Will you feed it, mute it, or kill it?

Do you think psychopaths feel remorse? Do they differ from you? Why or why not?

Is that a banging on the door, or is it the birch tree hitting the window?

How can one say, if one did not know that something they had contributed to had netted some ¥6,000,000,000, that one had been robbed? Ever thing of that? Smart guy?

Didn't you chop down that birch tree? Or were you merely intending to do so?

Did you know that copyright lawsuits are rarely settled within one's lifetime? Did you know that John Bonham (†) is still being sued for how his band ripped off so many artists?

Do you have any idea how things turned out this way?

Why could you not accept being a loser?

Sorry, that was a leading question.

Do you find there's something repugnant in being a loser? Don't you think losers can lead fulfilling lives?

If one is willing to kill the friend of an acquaintance, why cannot one kill instead the acquaintance? Why skip the middle man?

Do you hear people yelling outside? Do you not think you should go to the door and find out what they want?

Do you think you'll ever sleep again?

Don't you hear them coming up the stairs? Does the Law require a long arm, or can it get by with arms of a normal length?

Any last words?