The Mashin’ of the Christ
p2pnet.net News:- Horror of horrors!
“This April a hacker broke through Negativland’s UMN mainframe firewall and stole the final version of Negativland’s top-sacred for-internal-use-only ‘Mashin’ of the Christ’ video project,” it says on the site here.
Do these wicked, wicked p2p thieves no know (or is it know no?) bounds?
“Negativland prayed that their in-house project would not make it into the hands of the unsuspecting public, but we all know how hard it can be to stop those ‘peer to peer’ criminals from illegally sharing the property of others.”
OK. So what’s gone missing?
No less than the “The Mashin’ of the Christ”.
Yep.
Negativland decrypted, downloaded and mashed up the most violent religious film ever made along with over 27 other Hollywood portrayals of Jesus to create their own vision of the last moments of Christ’s life… all in four minutes and 14 seconds as its top-secret-not-for-viewing video response to the number one film in America.
Friends and lawyers who’ve seen it strongly advised against a public release occuring. Ever.
But you know how it is with these dastardly file-stealers. What can you do? The RIAA, IFPI, MPAA, BPI, IBP, BIP, SPCA, AA and others have for years been selflesssly ….
But we digress.
Anyhow, you probably won’t want to know any more about this, so don’t bother to go to Negativland to find out whether or not full-screen, DVD quality PC/MAC mpeg2s, high quality DivXs and medium sized mpeg4s are available for on several p2p networks including Soulseek, Suprnova and BitTorrent, and you probably won’t want to use BitTorrent, or anything like that.
May 19th, 2004 at 12:40 am
Nice try, Negativland, but this is obviously just another bid for cheap publicity in the vein of Helter Stupid, Dispepsi and U2.
Not dissing the band though – check out `death sentences of the polished and structurally weak` or `a big 10-8 place` for refreshingly different `music`.