[lbo-talk] Re: Tower Records

Sean Andrews cultstud76 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 5 09:06:11 PST 2007


On 1/4/07, Tayssir John Gabbour <tayssir.john at googlemail.com> wrote:


> Ironically, there are casualties on both sides. The media corps shut
> down strong online communities like ShunTV, which helped radicalize
> some people a couple years ago. (Initially famous for offering The
> Daily Show, and also offered hard-to-find left leaning stuff like "The
> Century of Self". It offered community, not just illegal video.)

ShunTV was, indeed, a great community. The discussion there was always as important as the torrents they tracked. I'll note, on the other hand, that it still exists, though in a truncated form. They don't offer as many of their own releases as in the past, and I don't think they run their own tracker, but most of the same players are active and the discussion continues:

http://www.sonofshun.com/forums/index.php



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