Mixtape: Cassetternet
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The Cold War Style Arms Race
By the late 19 eighties, more and more pirated material of all types was being smuggled in and shared on these casettes. This set off its own cold war style arms race, with folks like simon creating new copy protections and folks like fukoft figuring how to break them. It became a collaborative and creative process of forward and backward communication. And when i talked to fukoft, he told me that he he thinks this media and the sharing that facilitated it was at least one reason why hundreds of thousands of cheka slovis are in the street. The young wanted and to rule. Altogether, so many people, all at the same time, were prime to
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