“Though you’ve likely stumbled across a post or two from UbuWeb during one of your internet excursions or referenced the site during college courses, perhaps it’s a good time to devote solid, focused energy on absorbing the profoundly deep lessons buried in the crucial online archive of art, music, film, literature and esoteric ephemera. This year marks UbuWeb’s 25th anniversary, but don’t expect a social media blitz, a plea for funding or a major web redesign. Defiantly utilitarian, it operates as a crucial resource while openly acknowledging in its About essay that its archive contains copyright-infringing content: ‘By the letter of the law, the site is questionable; we openly violate copyright norms and almost never ask for permission. Most everything on the site is pilfered, ripped, and swiped from other places, then reposted. We’ve never been sued—never even come close.’ ...”
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