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Movies Are Getting Shittier Because You Keep Stealing Them
buzzfeed.com 2 weeks, 4 days agoHow piracy hurts, but intellectual property theft might actually help the movie industry. Cheezburger Network's Ben Huh gets serious about copyright law. Unless you want to see the kid from David After Dentist grown up and self-aware of his fame, this weekend’s ROFLcon convention on internet humor offered scant intellectual discourse. An exception was an impassioned lecture by Ben Huh, impresario of the lolcat sweatshop Cheezeburger Network on the future of intellectual property law and the web. 4chan harbo
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ROFLCon: The Internet Goes Offline To Talk Web Culture
nytimes.com 3 weeks agoWhat makes something a meme? Or perhaps more importantly, what causes a meme to go viral or even mainstream? Authenticity and spontaneity, says Jonathan Zittrain, a law professor at Harvard who studies the Internet and how people use it. He gave the opening keynote speech at ROFLCon, a conference focused on Internet culture.
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