Paramount Pictures is “watching every motion, in this foolish [tweeter’s] game” and petitioning the social network to take not his breath but his Twitter away. Eriq Gardner in The Hollywood Reporter says the studio’s lawyers have filed a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice against @555uhz for tweeting out the hit 80s film “Top Gun” one frame at a time.
“The prankster took the time and effort to showcase one of the roles that made Tom Cruise a box office star, posting roughly two or three still images and quotes from the 1986 movie every hour,” says Gardner. He says Twitter suspended the account on Tuesday.
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