#9- Grandkids

"Teta" is what we call our grannies in Lebanon.

What would Lebanon be without its slow internet? A shithole with unlimited bandwidth, that's what. But I digress... You know the thing about piracy is, it's sort of your only resort when the thing you want isn't available for purchase where you are, in this case Lebanon.

Here we see Tanya (and her grandkids) downloading  an anime, as many otakus here do. For me it's actually music, not comics as you'd assume, though I do download my fair share of those every now and then. I'm a MAJOR audiophile (have you gone to the "Theme Jingle" page yet? You probably should).

I used to buy originals and some bootlegs for 5,000 L.L., until I learned how to use torrents and realized that the bootleg guy was basically just downloading the stuff from the very place I have open access to and go to fool around on for hours on end: the internet! In addition to that realization, my tastes just kept getting more diverse and more obscure, and I knew there was no choice left but to take matters into my own cyber-hands.

I think teaching people to be more web-savvy could potentially help them see beyond the commercial crap on the shelves and find what they like out there, whether it's music, TV series, films, whatever. I did go back to physical purchases a while back when I got into vinyl, because some of that stuff has not even been digitized, but that was a phase...

I've doomed any potential "Joura" book sales, but it's for the greater good... yup, just doin' my duty as a... oh goddammit.