Disclaimer: I am not advocating for piracy or the violation of any other laws, and you should check your country’s laws with regards to matters before you engage in any activities. Also, if you do pirate entertainment media in America without using a VPN, your internet provider will send you a threatening letter. 

The pirate community is great. They ensure that Jews cannot trick you into paying money for kiked entertainment by providing it all for free. That way you can peruse at your own leisure, download anything you want and view it free of charge.

Furthermore, information wants to be free and so on and so forth.

The release of Netflix’s “Bandersnatch,” which is a “Choose Your Own Adventure” style interactive video where you are able to direct the character, allegedly presented some kind of a challenge to the pirate community.

On January 3rd, the gaysite Mashable mocked pirates for not being able to successfully work out how to watch the show, which on Netflix relied on proprietary software.

People were saying that producing media in this format might be a way to “combat pirating.”

By January 8th, the problem had been solved by joric from Reddit, who put together the pirated video file with an HTML file and two Javascript files that allowed you to watch the show and interact with it using your keyboard and mouse.

This ensures that any further releases of this kind of media will be easily and quickly pirated in a format which is usable by the viewer.

Bandersnatch was presented as a “Netflix Christmas present,” and was basically just a proof of concept for this type of media, which I assume they are going to start doing more of.

I enjoyed it. It was as good as any Black Mirror episode. Great music. If you’re used to watching that show, you can ignore the fact that in 1980, there is a Paki running a British computer game company. The Pacman conspiracy was pretty good. We probably all have felt at some point in our lives that our entire lives are part of a government mind control experiment. This fear appears to be embedded in the fabric of our society, and is picked up on by anyone with an IQ above a certain threshold.

Unraveling the mystery of that through a series of deaths and rewinds was enjoyable.

I doubt that the “choose your own adventure” method of media will catch on too much though. Outside of science fiction, it is hard to imagine when this concept would be useful. And Black Mirror pretty much exploited the entire fourth wall-breaker narrative, meaning that can’t really be done again.

Also, Netflix is getting sued by the owners of “Choose Your Own Adventure” the books. I don’t know how that will affect the further production of such productions.

But if any of it is done again, it will be pirated successfully.

I sense a great Black Mirror episode coming from this.

A fat Chinaman is stuck in bed and a robot chest-arm won’t stop stuffing food into his face while he is forced to watch gay porno.

The twist will be that it was an illusion and really the fat Chinaman stuffing himself to death with a robot chest-arm is stuck in a virtual simulation as punishment in a future society where he was using his smartphone too much during meals so his son committed suicide and it was all recorded by a microchip brain implant that also recorded him masturbating.

The Verge:

For those celebrating Thanksgiving today, at some point there will come a time where you is simply too full to move. At this point, the sensible action is to sleep it off before rising later in the day, groggy and disorientated, for a second gorging. But what if technology could help? What if, instead of succumbing to your turkey stupor, some sort of chest-mounted robot arm could lob sweet treats into your open mouth? What a world that would be.

We’ve not reached this gravy-soaked utopia yet, but researchers from Australia and India have taken us one step closer with “Arm-A-Dine” — a robot arm worn in the middle of the chest that picks food up off the table and conveys it to you or your dining partner’s mouth.

The intention isn’t to stuff you till you explode, though: Arm-A-Dine is actually a prototype designed to augment the social experience of eating. In a research paper from the Exertion Games Lab at RMIT University in Australia and the Indian Institute of Information Technology Design, researchers explain how most food tech is focused on the preparation of food and not the eating experience.

In a world where researchers warn about a “loneliness epidemic” and many meals are taken with smartphone in hand, Arm-A-Dine is supposed to remind us that eating is a social event.

The Verge is really doing a great service to the world by giving them a comprehensive view of the future world that technology will create, while remembering to work to shut down websites that might give people an alternative view, such as the Daily Stormer and Alex Jones.

If a company using technology to promote the idea that technology is self-regulating and self-developing uses influence to shut down other social influencers who have a different view of technology by colluding with other technology companies to deny services to them by engineering a false public perception and then that view of technology leads to an Orwellian control grid based on a manufactured reality which is allegedly run by unguided technological development but is actually designed by a conspiracy of technology companies, that isn’t so much like a Black Mirror episode as it is like a free market capitalism something something something if you don’t like it start your own internet.