Paramount has spoiled the fun of watching every second of the 1986 Tom Cruise classic Top Gun on Twitter. The studio, which owns the film, just shut down a Twitter page that was slowly posting every single frame of the movie, from beginning to end.
The Twitter user, who used the handle @555uhz, began Tweeting every frame of the film last month. It continued without any fanfare, until last week, when media outlets began reporting on the account.
According to TorrentFreak, @555uhz, who used a pile of VHS tapes for his profile picture, got up to 1,525 tweets and almost 6,900 followers. At that point, Paramount’s lawyers clearly caught wind of the account and sent the person a Digital Millennium Copyright Act notice. The account is now suspended.
“No one is authorized to copy, reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use Top Gun without the express written permission of Paramount,” the notice reads, reports The Hollywood Reporter. It was sent by Paramount’s Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton reps.
So, it looks like we’ll never know what the climactic dogfights look like in Twitter form. We will just have to watch the film in 110 minutes instead.
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