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...that he and his partners feared nothing from the complaints. "We get legal threats every day, or we used to," Sunde said. "But we don't have a problem with them - we're just a search engine." His colleagues Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Fredrik Neij are also on trial, along with a wealthy businessman accused of providing bandwidth and other support for the site...
...certainly their “most inaccessible.” “Not that this should stop the well-intentioned, naive reader from making an attempt or giving up actual money for the chance to [read it],” Grzecki read aloud. The audience laughed along as Grzecki read the book’s surreal second chapter, which featured the Keezer Cat—who offers to buy Alice’s skin— and a mustachioed Humpty Dumpty. John B. Owen ’10, another Lampoon officer, then took over and read what he claimed...
...Trail of Dead avoids this simplicity. They slow down and draw out the song, adding layers of feedback and flourishes. The layers then drop out one by one, leaving a series of rhythmic, restrained chords, over top of which is a vocal melody that begs the listener to sing along. The chords slow down and fade out, and one would expect the song to end here. Then the tease of the bass and the same upbeat, in-your-face crescendo that jump-started the song returns to bring the track back full-circle.These epic, guitar-driven tracks avoid becoming overbearing...
...reader to guess at much of what was behind these trends. Instead, Mullan excels in offering rather disparate anecdotes, that fail to cohere as a whole. Those anecdotes, however, are enlightening stumbles for repetition. Had this book been one-third its length, it would have guided the reader along a delightful journey through history. But 374 pages translates to being told, over and over again, that anonymous publishing may be the result of authorial mischief, publicity-seeking, or genuine need for safety.In the epilogue, Mullan finally admits that no bigger themes may be discovered in the history of anonymity...
...that the old painter’s show was “manifestly a reactionary farce.” Through his letters, Debord is presented as unafraid to share with members the issues he is having with others; he comments each time that the addressed member has known all along that the recently expelled member would prove to be trouble.Insofar as SI was essentially Debord’s brainchild, the movement shares its creator’s calculating nature. SI aimed to shock. As Debord wrote; “the element of surprise is essential and will ensure our success...