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When Gnutella file sharing first became popular, I noticed that if I searched for .txt files I could find popular books of the day. Sometimes I would download t

by galago 7y ago

When Gnutella file sharing first became popular, I noticed that if I searched for .txt files I could find popular books of the day. Sometimes I would download them and do a find and replace operation to change the names of characters, sometimes to my own name or of other people, just to be silly. I think I did this with all the Harry Potter books. I also recall creating a heavily modified version of Fight Club which had a happy ending. This isn't really what the article is about, but it does show that some edits may well be intentional. None of the works I modified, as far as I recall were in the public domain at the time.

jhbadger 7y ago
And about a decade ago there was a brief humor fad that consisted of modifying public domain classic literature to add fantasy or SF features -- "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters" or "Android Karenina" and so on -- but obviously the people buying those knew that they weren't buying the original works.
- entropicdrifter 7y ago
  Who could forget "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" ? They even made a movie of that one
  - jsgo 7y ago
    PaPaZ was the one that almost got me into Audible. The lady that was reading it did it in an "aristocratic" delivery that just added to the humor.
  - magduf 7y ago
    It certainly sounds a lot more interesting than the original version.