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"Fight Club" is a grand example of pirating. The author got the book printed and movie made only because early version was so popular in Usenet. -- Wikipedia d
by timonoko 3y ago
"Fight Club" is a grand example of pirating. The author got the book printed and movie made only because early version was so popular in Usenet.
-- Wikipedia does not tell the truth, but it never does.
- mulmen 3y agoI don't see that claim in the wiki but maybe I need to look closer.
- timonoko 3y agoOr maybe simple firefighter Palahniuk did not even know what internet was. Thus it was indeed a "surprise" when his book was suddenly accepted. Anyways. The original short story was published in some shitty literary magazine, wherefrom the evil pirate copied it to Usenet.
- shrikant 3y agoIMHO, Tron 2 was also only made because of heavy piracy of the original -- the gap between the two seems baffling otherwise.