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I thought it important that somewhere it should be noted that the original "Film pirate" is Mr. Fox himself.
"Some of America's greatest innovators were thought of as pirates. When Thomas Edison invented the phonographic record player, musicians branded him a pirate out to steal their work and destroy the live music business, until a system was established so everyone could be paid royalties, which we today call the record industry. Edison, in turn, went on to invent filmmaking, and demanded a licensing fee from those making movies with his technology. This caused a band of filmmaking pirates, including a man named William, to flee New York for the then still wild West, where they thrived, unlicensed, until Edison's patents expired. These pirates continue to operate there, albeit legally now, in the town they founded: Hollywood. William's last name? Fox." (edit)
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Which is his real birth name - Fried or Fuchs? --1523 08:43, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
The link to the home page of Tolcsva is broken. It's [1] now (still maintained by Me-NET Student Ltd.). Btw. I think it should be mentioned that the page is in Hungarian. -- Anonymous 13:04, 28 June 2006 (GMT)
- Most foreign Wikipedia versions (and IMDb) give the name Vilmos (or Wilhelm) Fried as his real birth name. German Hollywood (obviously the main source of this article) does not. But German Hollywood also gives a wrong spelling for his birth place. Robert Schediwy 86.33.220.2 05:05, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
