Word: filesã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...these spinoffs, I’ll write the long-awaited sequel to the library “prank files?? story. Maybe it won’t be as funny at the New York Public Library as it would have been at Lamont, but I won’t miss my second chance to load my bag with a whole roast chicken and a side of rice pilaf...
...charmingly absurd often lapses into the offensively cutesy. Most of the special effects (e.g. the visible, three-dimensional beating of Amélie’s heart) are a bit too Ally McBeal for the film’s own good, not to mention the “X-Files??-style flashes of light and swelling chords that announce important events. Tautou is simply too expressive an actress to need such devices, and their presence is overkill...
...highlight the excesses of this greedy industry and the degree to which they want to insult their customers. Until the industry delivers a model in which users pay a single subscription of $10-$20 per month for unlimited and unhindered access to music, movie and other entertainment files??a model which would still guarantee monstrous profits—I can see no moral problem with downloading files through post-Napster tools like Gnutella and Morpheus. Owners of IP must recognize that marginal pricing should only reflect marginal cost. Until then, the only way to express our dissatisfaction...
...there is a fundamental difference between such natural skepticism aimed at discovering the truth and the deep distrust of the “regular” world that invents for ourselves new myths—the kind of “X-Files?? mentality that makes conspiracies ever more believable the more fantastic they become. The former, always imperfectly realized, is a difficult path to uncertain knowledge. The latter, unfortunately popular in our times, is nothing but a quick route to feelings of superiority, at least compared to the benighted masses who still believe what they...