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January 18, 2012

Don’t Stop With SOPA: Destroy Hollywood, Destroy RIAA

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Destroy SOPA

Seriously, what is at stake is your right to interact; to criticise; to parody; to discuss.

SOPA/PIPA wants to give carte blanche censorship powers to the corporate sector.

No accountability. No responsibility.

The real target is you.

React or submit.

Hollywood creates nothing. Neither does the RIAA. Ask them – have they ever returned a cent to artists by suing dead people and single mothers? They will not answer. They are parasites. Dinosaurs that natural selection is removing from the biosphere. They have no function other than to serve themselves. Herein lies their desperation.

Destroy them.

They are worthless.

So are the politicians that are selling you out.

Register to vote – and remember who’s who.

 

March 7, 2011

The Poor, Poor MafIAA

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This is precious synchronicity that must be preserved.

Only today, the latest astroturfing gang, by the very impressive sounding name of Australian Content Industry Group, has sprung on us its latest deranged, hyperbolic, catastrophist spin about piracy. Oddly enough, google knows nothing about this group, nor its stated acronym. Surely, something that impressively sounding and so obviously important cannot be overlooked by Google, but Bing doesn’t know about them either. They can’t just not exist. Unless they were just made up on the spot. But surely not. The big media cartels would never stoop to such indignities surely? The derangement is spattered all over the local press –

Nation of unrepentant pirates costs $900m* (more…)

 

January 13, 2011

Cultural Libertarianism

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Or the strange case of The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (aka Marat/Sade)

Valhalla Cinema, Glebe

Valhalla Cinema, Glebe. Being turned into another filing cabinet for yuppies.

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In many ways, the demise in 2005 of the Valhalla Cinema was the final nail in the coffin of Sydney, Australia, as a valid cultural epicentre in the greater kosmopolites. It was a final kick in the groin to a city that had once boasted an underground arts and music scene to rival London, Frisco, New York or Berlin. Of course the rot began some two decades earlier, the deadly combination of easy wealth and imbeciles saw the gentrification of its inner city. Music venues closed, replaced my slot machine casinos and retarded techno/dance clubs with bright lights and mirrors to hypnotise the vapid. It was a descent into narcissism and shallow spectacle, a playground for nouveau riche vulgarity, a culture effectively placed in a coma. And it was a scene replayed the world over. As a testament to the abject hollowness of what Sydney has become, the Valhalla hasn’t even merited its own Wikipedia entry from any of its residents – all a google search reveals now are a former map location, some minor footnotes in irrelevant blogs and some private photo galleries. It may as well never have existed. (more…)