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Confessions of a Pirate

Confessions of a Pirate

Steven Boone
By Steven Boone posted 1 year ago
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I was planning to weigh in on this week’s big digital rights story, the MPAA’s lawsuit against Real Networks for releasing its new RealDVD movie-copying software, but that was at the top of the week. This is the Internet. Everybody said everything that’s to be said on the matter in the first two days or hours or minutes of this, um, controversy. It’s hard to work up any Real passion on the subject anyway, as nobody really likes Real Networks (onetime online audio pioneers, now junky iTunes wannabe) or the MPAA (aka the movie police). But it all seems kinda simple to me: big, ravenous companies trying to expand/protect revenue streams, dressing it up as a copyright/artists’ rights issue. Ancient stuff.

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Michel Gondry Wins a Webby

Karina Longworth
By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago
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Michel Gondry has won the Webby Film and Video Award for Person of the Year, for inventing the concept of Sweding, which took the internet by storm for seven minutes in February. Yay for him! Because I don’t care about Sweding at all, let’s use this as an excuse to watch 10 minutes of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind!

An Inconvenient Truth, The Remake. Clip of the Day.

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By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago
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Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind may have failed to make much of an impact at the box office, but as Liz Shannon Miller reports at NewTeeVee, it did touch off a serious wave of low-budget remake making on the web. Of the three “Sweded” mini-masterpieces she considers, by favorite is the above take on An Inconvenient Truth. Watch it, and join the fight to keep polar bears from taking our jobs. Related: this plus The Pleasure of Being Robbed makes two recent works to employ use of a fake polar bear. I just have to find one more fake polar bear in popular culture, and I can pitch a trend piece to the New York Times!