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Downfall writer praises Hitler rant meme
'I find those parodies tremendously amusing' says the writer of the widely parodied film, Downfall.
Since 2006, there have been hundreds of parodies of the scene where Hitler shouts at his senior staff with alternate meanings added through subtitles.
It's nice to see the originator of a piece of content subject to so much copyright infringement show his appreciation. He even goes as far as discussing how the parody which focussed on Hitler's losses in the 2008 property market crash was historically relevant.
"Hitler's real crisis at the time was also about a gigantic real estate loss: the loss of all those territories he had conquered, fueled by false credit and driven by avarice, megalomania and barbaric ruthlessness. And then history's Dow Jones came crushing down on him… I find this parody so funny because it's historically relevant."
Full article at The Register
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Balloon Boy (Know Your Meme) | Rocketboom
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Great example of the speed at which info. real or made up circulates these days.
Resistance is futile
Today marks the end of an era, as The Pirate Bay team announces that the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker is shutting down for good. Although the site will remain operational for now, millions of BitTorrent users will lose the use of its tracker and will instead have to rely on DHT and alternative trackers to continue downloading.
via torrentfreak.com
Today The Pirate Bay tracker went down for good. May it rest in piece.
What's interesting is that in its place is DHT – which is, essentially, a distributed tracker. I believe there is a "Yo dawg" hidden in here somewhere, along the lines of, "Yo dawg, I heard you like to pirate movies. We put a torrent in your torrent so you can download while you download!"
My biggest criticism of the the RIAA and MPAA is that they never try to fight piracy through economics. You've never seen them try to slash prices to get people back into a store buying CDs. Or mandate that labels and publishers drop DRM so that more paying customers can enjoy content un-hampered. Instead they try to fight piracy by attempting to filibuster technology and innovation. It's futile.
And while you might want to hate on the RIAA and MPAA, the great irony is that they are the ones essentially pushing people to innovate. Every time their politics result in a "landmark victory", the resistance engineers a better, faster, and more distributed way to share content. Can you imagine if they never touched Napster? People would still be downloading single songs at 100 Kbps. Instead, today people download entire albums and whole disographies at 10 Mbps. So, they killed The Pirate Bay. Big deal. This time next year there will be another solution that will be 10 times faster, have 10 times as much content, and be more difficult to manage from an IP perspective than anything that has come before it.
Modernes Webdesign
Das Cover zur neuen Auflage meines Buches. Es wird Ende des Jahres erscheinen.
Yahoo Meme Mobile
There's no post by email yet either. On another note, I wonder how much space Yahoo gives to meme users.
Internet memes 101: Saturn Lady
Carnage first…LOLs later. via: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2700824&page=1
