The soviets used to produce bootleg copies of Western vinyls on x-ray since the sixties.
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Growing up in the nineties Russia I saw quite a few in home collections all over. Beatles on a ribcage, Judas Priest on a wrist, Black Sabbath on a skull. Some of them were bootlegs of bootlegs: getting your hand on an original recording was so rare and risky.
Sharing a tracked link is a netizens equivalent of sneezing without covering your face. Unhygienic
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I made the same comment 5h ago https://beehaw.org/comment/6121936 Dafuq brah
Hot take: overselling is not good saleswork.
Put on some techno music and post it, good content!
Piracy isn’t stealing, period.
It was totally ok to pirate movies before this practice ever took place. Information had always wanted to be free.
Nothing prudish about it. IMO very few directors can film a sex scene in a way that genuinely contributes to the movie. Most such scenes are just an indulgence, and those of us who don’t have a horny mind usually go “yeah, they fucked” and skip ahead.
Haven’t seen Hamnet, thank you for the recommendation!
I blame tech. The way it scales plays too well to the speculative nature of markets, and by infecting everything we do with itself, it turns these things into speculative commodities.
Practical effects are a craft, - they are only to be made and admired. Digital doubles can be canned, preserved and reproduced at scale with no friction. It’s the theme of 21st century: sacrificing everything we love for the sake of convenience, while telling ourselves that only this convenience is love-worthy.
You see, you can’t just “be” or “make” things anymore. Whatever you do, you can only do it in a way that makes money slide.
Everything is smooth in the frictionless world, especially disappointment.
I see two sides to this argument.
On one hand, he is right: deconstruction is not a critique, and more people need to learn the difference.
On the other hand, when people present a deconstruction as critique, what they mean is that “your magic circle is too obvious, it no longer suspends my disbelief, I see what you are doing”.
Imagine if he was talking about stage magic: “Knowing how the illusion works does not detract from prestige” - that is obviously false.
Make it legal to jailbreak and reverse-engineer American tech, then I’ll be excited.
Thanks for a genuine answer. What was the riot about, and how did it get violent?
I had spoken about this to my Chinese colleagues, and I heard different versions.
I am actually open to being educated, so please - do explain. I am just allergic to condescending half-truths I see in most comments.
What happened at that square?
Oooh the fires are lit!
Most execs can be replaced with a Bash script, not even technically interesting.
I think it remains to be seen. If the vast majority of text I read is synthetic, my writing will naturally start to smell synthetic too.
Absolutely agree. I return mine every time and silently judge everyone who doesn’t. It’s the simplest thing in the world