Denizen of the Darknet Reviews 2012
 by Michael Dare
  
 I've never snuck into a movie theater showing a big new blockbuster with  the intension of surreptitiously making a copy of it with my digital camera and  offering it immediately for free to everyone on the internet, but I HAVE snuck  into a movie theater showing a big new blockbuster and thought to myself "I  must make it my mission in life to prevent other people from having to go  through the same hideous experience I was just subjected to." Giving it away for  free might be one way to do it.
  
 I'd like to point out that one nanosecond after the first public showing of  2012, there were several versions available in BitTorrent.
  
 And I'd like to point out that more than a month after its release, there  still isn't a copy of A Serious Man, the Coen Brother's new film,  available in BitTorrent. (At least so far as I know. It could be available on  some limited stream the public doesn't have access to.)
  
 And I'd like to make a big deal over those two facts, which I believe turn  the release of BitTorrent versions of movies into an actual political  statement and not just the work of "pirates" out to make a buck. (How can it be  piracy if no one makes a penny? Sounds like a Robin Hood metaphor might be more  apt.)
  
 I put it to you that the reason A Serious Man hasn't been ripped  off is because the intelligent minds behind BitTorrent actually respect the Coen  Brothers and so it hasn't even occurred to them to rip them off. They would  never, ever, pass around a shoddy copy of a Coen Brothers movie. They would only  wait for the official DVD release so they can point with pride to their vastly  superior Blue-Ray rip where you can see every wisp of smoke in the distance. The  visuals are everything, man. You want to pay attention, to stop whatever it is  you're doing and actually WATCH a Coen Brothers movie, and if you're giving it  all your focus, you don't want to hear audience noises and see people getting up  to go the bathroom from a copy shot in a multiplex that doesn't include the end  credits because that's when the lights go up and the ushers appear.
  
 I put it to you that 2012 was available immediately because  nobody in the the vastly intelligent world of BitTorrent gives a good flying  fuck about Roland Emmerich and the Hollywood money stream he represents. They  show their contempt by saving you money which you can now spend on something  else. There's no sense in feeling guilty because you were prevented from wasting  your money. You'll just waste it on something else. No matter what, Hollywood  gets your money. 
  
 Despite the fact that hell has called and wants my eyes back, I am grateful  to the knowledgeable and generous denizens of the Darknet for saving me the  bother of dragging my bones to a movie theater. 
  
 Here's a nice game to play. Exactly how much random money would you have to  have lying around before you were willing to fork over fifteen bucks to see  2012? For me, it's about a hundred. Yeah, that's right. You'd have  to pay me a hundred smackeroos before I'd go see 2012 in a movie  theater. Before that point, I've got something better to do with that money. I  could have a bong hit and imagine my own end of the world, where everyone is  nice to each other and it drives them crazy, with hot fudge lava from the  Electric Brownie Mountains flowing free into the churning Sea of Cold Stoned  Creamery French Vanilla with a Jerry on top, Colonna, not Lewis, and everything  is free, including food, from Foodster, the BitTorrent program that replicates  food, and Drugster, the BitTorrent program that replicates drugs. Don't get me  started about Sexster. No character needs an arc and no species needs an  ark because there's nothing to escape from but their own lunacy and the  unlimited barrels of pure pleasure available for free. The world falls apart  because people stop believing in fairies. Nothing makes any sense. Ducks bark,  dogs quack, and everyone wears hemp underwear. They got it wrong. It's just a  bunch of random things happening. Entropy. That's how the world ends. 
  
 MD
  
 "There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward  you can remove all traces of reality." 
- Pablo Picasso -