Weirdly, they don't even sell the DVD anymore. You can only find used copies. It's fine if you found it in the 90s/2000s, but a kid discovering it today is out of luck for legal ways to buy it.
I didn't think it was that long ago I picked it up, but then again it was at an FYE so it's probably over 20 years now... (so old)
Just looking at my DVD I'm debating whether I should burn copies to freely share or burn a copy to upload somewhere. (Don't see it on Internet Archive yet...)
"Again it’s not that I don’t want the creators to be shafted, but at some point I wonder why we can’t have culturally important artifacts… let’s call it… “universally streaming.” Not exactly a public domain but a kind of universal catalog by which all stream services include these works. These movies, those shows, etc. You can still have your streaming exclusive programming, but there would just be some classics which were available no matter which service you picked, so everybody could have a chance to learn of their culture.
"I mean for your memory, when was the last time a film had a major cultural impact that you can recall? (Especially curious if you’re a non-American reader as I’m getting a taste for foreign films.) Lord of the Rings? The Matrix? Inception maybe but that mostly affected trailers. Marvel kind of in inspiring everyone to try and do a cinematic universe but that’s more of a project idea than any kind of cultural impact.
"Then again, cultural impact requires repetition and reference. Star Wars has endured for so long because it inspired so many knock offs, imitators, and endless winks, nods and references to it all over the cultural landscape. Now? If you do any of that for a movie, your video gets hit with a DMCA notice. If you want to try and share a song with your friends, to spread it around, you get copyright-struck. The laws and bots enforcing them are choking out any effort to actually build a culture."
"I wasn’t kidding when I said PCU isn’t available anywhere. There was only one way for me to get the clips I needed."
Wow that's a shame.
*Looks over at the DVD on his shelf*
Hmmmm......
Weirdly, they don't even sell the DVD anymore. You can only find used copies. It's fine if you found it in the 90s/2000s, but a kid discovering it today is out of luck for legal ways to buy it.
I didn't think it was that long ago I picked it up, but then again it was at an FYE so it's probably over 20 years now... (so old)
Just looking at my DVD I'm debating whether I should burn copies to freely share or burn a copy to upload somewhere. (Don't see it on Internet Archive yet...)
It was something I ranted about once before...
https://natewinchester.wordpress.com/2021/03/06/the-value-of-culture/
"Again it’s not that I don’t want the creators to be shafted, but at some point I wonder why we can’t have culturally important artifacts… let’s call it… “universally streaming.” Not exactly a public domain but a kind of universal catalog by which all stream services include these works. These movies, those shows, etc. You can still have your streaming exclusive programming, but there would just be some classics which were available no matter which service you picked, so everybody could have a chance to learn of their culture.
"I mean for your memory, when was the last time a film had a major cultural impact that you can recall? (Especially curious if you’re a non-American reader as I’m getting a taste for foreign films.) Lord of the Rings? The Matrix? Inception maybe but that mostly affected trailers. Marvel kind of in inspiring everyone to try and do a cinematic universe but that’s more of a project idea than any kind of cultural impact.
"Then again, cultural impact requires repetition and reference. Star Wars has endured for so long because it inspired so many knock offs, imitators, and endless winks, nods and references to it all over the cultural landscape. Now? If you do any of that for a movie, your video gets hit with a DMCA notice. If you want to try and share a song with your friends, to spread it around, you get copyright-struck. The laws and bots enforcing them are choking out any effort to actually build a culture."
Also the Reason song parody guy is "Remy."
He actually does more parody songs related to a little card game called "magic the gathering" than he does political stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/c/MTGRemy