<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">On Jan 15, 2011, at 11:56 AM,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:mccaskem@georgetown.edu">mccaskem@georgetown.edu</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">As someone reared in infancy on jars of Gerber Baby Food that got around Kobe<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and Yokohama Customs (statute of limitations now), though, it still seems<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">possible to me that some people in Japan saw Potemkin back in the day, even<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">so.<br></blockquote><br>Seriously. I</span>s there anyone here who hasn't seen a bootlegged edition of a film? ;)Students then were no less "hackers" or "pirates" than students today. Laws and prohibitions are mere cake decorations. </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><br>This does raise a question about the technologies of film piracy circa 1920's and 30's as well as other underground film activities ...<br><br></span></div></div><br></body></html>