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Nat Oleander

9 months ago

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Nat Oleander
9 months ago

#piracy #media #plays #shakespeare #tumblr

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One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discreetly write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

1. It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

2. Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

#media #tumblr #piracy #plays #shakespeare

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Tomáš

1 year ago

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Tomáš
1 year ago

bad boys

#unix_surrealism #mata #comic #piracy

Two fully sentient MetaCity Police Department mercenaries are hanging about the corporate city. One is visibly depressed.

His superior asks: "You okay, junior?"

Junior: "My MATAFLIX subscription price went up again... the hacker hideout we raided last week, destroying all the drives with pirated media? They had shows you can't even watch on MATAFLIX anymore..."

Superior: "Look, kid... I like you, but you're on a fast track to being replaced by a semi-sentient bot cop."

#comic #mata #unix_surrealism #piracy

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Echo 🦊

1 year ago

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Echo 🦊
1 year ago

Today 20 years ago, Pirate Bay response to legal threats from DreamWorks

#piracy #tech #news #pirates #meme #today

Email from the pirate Bay, saying: The
Re: Unauthorized Use of DreamWorks SKG Properties
As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country in northern Europe.
Unless you figured it out by now, US law does not apply here. For your information, no Swedish law is being violated.
Please be assured that any further contact with us, regardless of medium, will result in
a) a suit being filed for harassment
b) a formal complaint lodged with the bar of your legal counsel, for sending frivolous legal threats.
It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are ....... morons, and that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons.
Please also note that your e-mail and letter will be published in full on http://www.thepiratebay.org/
Go fuck yourself.
Polite as usual, anakata

#News #tech #Meme #pirates #Today #piracy

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