![]() This is another facet of piracy, a paradoxical one – neoliberal piracy bringing in profit, lacking personality and community, just an interface and some links.īut two years ago, while studying about the noblesse of the film industry, I received a strange message. I fed the large piracy platforms, those that, in spite of their Robin Hood image, were veritable businesses, grown through advertising and fed by droves of anonymous users. I would just take and leave, like most other internet users. Of course, I was not one of the pirates I now admire, those that inspired me to write this text. ![]() We had no questions, and therefore no answers. Far from us to wonder whether we were entitled to the things in question (regardless of whether they were physical or virtual). It wasn’t just movies either – there were also video games, antivirus programs, music, anything that seemed necessary for a working-class family that wanted to consume more than it was capable or willing to pay for. Zac Efron was now at my fingertips, on my CD, in my hand, or spinning noisily in my DVD player. ![]() Gábor Csupó, 2007) and horror movies, and, already in the 2010s, a cousin of mine started fueling my most perverse impulse – that of owning the movies I saw on TV, the teen musicals they would show every weekend on the Disney Channel. This lasted for a while and was a family “business” – I would bring home Pixar animated films from my friends, while my dad brought in the heavy stuff, like Bridge to Terabithia (d. That is what I called myself in the 2000s, when my friends, always one step ahead of me in everything computers, would give me CDs with movies downloaded from websites with wonderfully all-encompassing names – freemoviedownloads, downloadfreemoviesnow, freeHDmoviesnow, etc. It always seemed a no-brainer – if you download stuff illegally, you’re a pirate.
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