Sunday, December 10, 2006

Culture of Piracy in the Philippines

What i'm currently reading today. It's about video piracy sa Pilipinas (lalo na sa quiapo) by Tilman Baumgärtel of the UP Film Institute. Long article , but worth your time. Ni-research talaga.

In one forum called TheQ. (Q stands for Quiapo, the neighbourhood in Manila with the biggest black market.) Since “TheQ” has recently disappeared from the Internet, I can only quote from my memory here, but there were a lot of posts along these lines: “Found Weekend by Jean-Luc Godard in Quiapo in the Muslim Barter Center at Stall No. 16. Ask for Benjie!”

I'll have more about this once i finish the article. might even email mr. baumgaertel to ask him a few questions.

Want to study digital media under him, here's the UP course syllabus.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

do you still have the article? pd pxerox, paper ko kasi to? k10

john marzan said...

here's the pdf file.

go to tilman's site too.
http://www.asian-edition.org/