most folks think of DRM as something that applies to DVDs or the music they buy from iTunes but that’s just one small way corporations and governments use DRM to levy control. where it really gets fucked-up is when you realize how much DRM has infiltrated and impacts your daily life.
it hit me somewhere between a mouthful of bamboo shoots and insects and the hissing aggro-monkey mugging me for my orange juice bottle. a moment of realization that can change a community.
if you’re at all like me you sometimes play out a scene in your head and in it you usually come out unscathed and looking good. yeah, well, things don’t always go as expected, do they?
being in a foreign land has a tendency to increase the odds of the unexpected. so, here are a few of those moments i caught on camera along with other outtakes…
http://www.vimeo.com/11168595
it’s scary enough to think that a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer is concocting an “AIDS-like” virus in their labs, but what’s just as worrisome is how big pharma shucks aside accountability when their scientists get infected with their own virus or when another of their drugs causes safety concerns.
as the Department of Justice puts it, Pfizer is “too big to nail”.