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Multiplicity
1996 · Film · 117 min
Directed by Harold Ramis
ComedyFantasyScience FictionRomance
Construction worker Doug Kinney finds that the pressures of his working life, combined with his duties to his wife Laura and daughter Jennifer leaves him with little time for himself. However, he is approached by geneticist Dr. Owen Leeds, who offers Doug a rather unusual solution to his problems: cloning.
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There's a film about this, Multiplicity.
Seems to be a Multiplicity[1]-type problem.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplicity_(film)
Presumably we'll observe something akin to Michael Keaton's character in the movie "Multiplicity" where by the third or fourth generation, the defects are noticeably amplified.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTuCxwZi4sw
That's pretty much my method now a days.
Used to torrent a lot, but realized I'd forget what I actually had and ended up re-downloading a lot.
So now I just go on sketchy streaming sites. I have 2 that are good for movies/ty, 1 for animated content.
Maybe once a year something will go down and I'll find a new site, but it really is as easy as clicking through the first 10 links when googling "watch $movie online free" and picking the most reliable one.
In the extremely rare case I can't find something, I'll drop the 4 bucks or whatever on youtube movies or amazon prime. Probably only happens a few times a year.
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Unrelated to the discussion, but still HN worthy, is how interesting these sites are when they operate.
Websites will constantly lift not just content but entire pages from each other. A lot of the time they'll even just change a X.com to an X.biz and add a banner saying "THIS IS THE REAL X, UPDATE YOUR BOOKMARKS!".
What are they going to do, take legal action?
I'm also suspecting everyone sources their movies from a very small set of places.
I tried watching the movie Multiplicity on one of these sites, but every single site hosted the first 4 minutes 27-ish seconds of it, exact same cut. It makes sense content propagates out, likely by automation. Everysite is a race to get the most ad clicks before getting shutdown.
A very interesting "industry"!
The author could have saved a lot of time and effort in coming to the conclusion that distance from the truth is problematic. Jean Baudrillard wrote about it in "Simulacrum and Simulation" 40 years ago, which was adapted into a movie called "Multiplicity," starring Michael Keaton.