darius told me about this from the new yorker:
sarah silverman got in trouble with asian americans a couple years ago for telling a joke on conan o'brien about how she was trying to get out of jury duty. a friend suggested she write "I hate Chinks," but she was worried that that would be racist, so she wrote "I love Chinks." She got a lot of shit for that, and now in her new DVD she says the following:
"I got in trouble for saying the work "Chink" on a talk show, a network talk show. It was in the context of a joke. Obviously. That'd be weird. That's be a really bad career choice if it wasn't. But, nevertheless, the president of an Asian-American watchdog group out here in Los Angeles, his name is Guy Aoki, and he was up in arms about it and he put my name in the papers calling me a racist, and it hurt. As a Jew - as a member of the Jewish community - I was really concerned that we were losing control of the media. Right? What kind of a world do we live in where a totally cure white girl can't say "Chink" on network television? It's like the fifties. It's scary. There are only two Asian people that I know I have any problem with, at all. One is, uh, Guy Aoki. The other is my friend Steve, who actually went pee-pee in my Coke. He's all, 'Me Chinese, me play joke.' Uh, if you have to explain it, Steve, it's not funny."
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did you see sarah silverman on the pamela anderson roast? i really didn't think a woman would talk like that, and i sure didn't think it could be broadcast, even on cable.
apparently i was wrong.
i did not, of course, since i'm in lithuania, and i don't have a television even if they showed it over here.
didn't you see The Aristocrats??? i have not, but i know she was in it, and i can't imagine anything more vulgar than The Aristocrats. i can't wait to see it!
i thought perhaps you downloaded a bootleg from the internet
her aristocrats bit was incredible. she's the only one to tell it as if she were actually in a family that did the aristocrats bit. i'll try to get you a copy by thanksgiving.
she sounds hilarious, I am so disappointed I haven't seen The Aristocrats yet although Darius recommended it to me a couple of months ago... now I wouldn't dare finish this message and go off and download a bootleg copy... cya!
i don't download anything, because i'm afraid i'll get in trouble like koon did. i'm sure the odds are like 1 in 1,000,000, but what would happen if the internet got shut down for the entire college? it's impossible that i wouldn't be fired! i have to wait till i get a laptop and go to the internet cafe.
yeah dariau, hook me up with a copy when you show up for thanksgiving. i've thought about my own version a bit, but not thoroughly.
Well, the good news is arai, downloading isn't illegal in most countries (check your local constitution for further details); what IS illegal, and what gets the attention of record companies and interpol is the sharing of copyrighted material.
All you need to do is set your P2P client to share nothing with other users, or to only share non-copyrighted materials. I recommend the latter setting to prevent getting banned by your peers. Just be careful when you do this because even though Mozart's works, for example, are in the public domain, perfomances can always be copyrighted by their performers. Tricky, tricky.
If you wanna download movies, and are going to use bittorrent, then you should install peer guardian 2.
Man, copyright infringement is so tricky these days. Remember when Napster came out and no one gave a shit and you could download all you wanted? Sometimes I wonder if it's all worth the effort anymore....
i like to use downloading as a free sampling. when i started downloading, it was different, though. then, it was mostly to expand my musical tastes by exploring new types of music and to build a library of songs to use my computer as a stereo. now that i've collected about 1,000 "stock" songs, most of my downloading has taken on a computerized version of buying singles. if i want a whole CD, i'll get a couple songs off the internet, and if i really like them, i'll buy it instead of bothering with trying to get all the songs online.
as for movies, i use the library. i feel no pressure to see movies as soon as they come out, and if i do, i'll go see it in theaters rather than bootleg it.
what's crazy (not too crazy though) is "safe podcasting." People were getting in trouble for using unlicensed clips of music to fade in and out of their talk shows, but now, there are even sights that specifically offer songs that are not copyrighted.
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