Sunday, October 27, 2013

Bootleg Culture


A really good example of intertextuality is when someone plagiarizes someone else’s work as their own.  You see more people doing this instead of doing the work themselves.  I think that most people take this seriously within schools and if someone is caught doing it them they get a punishment and for college you can even get kicked out.  This seems to almost be as common as people bootlegging movies or making mash ups as their own. 

A second example of intertextuality is when people copy movies onto DVD’s when they are not yet out on DVD (bootlegging).  I know multiple people who do this and they make these bootleg DVD’s and sell them to people for profit.  I do not see many people doing this as much but I know there are quite a few people who do this to make easy money.

2 comments:

  1. I've always heard about the bootlegging of DVD's. That issues is always gets attention.

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  2. I agree with you we see a lot of Plagiarism in todays culture. It is not originality if we are stealing or making a knock off of someone else's work. Originality helps it sound better.

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