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Re:Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017) by dmix on Thursday January 13, 2022 @02:43PM (#29925748)
This has always been a great business idea. Watch good foreign films and spin them into Americanized versions then pitch them to Hollywood.

Also I find it amusing that Home Alone in France is titled "Mom, I missed the plane"

Re:Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017) by southerntofu on Friday January 14, 2022 @07:21AM (#29933584)
> Watch good foreign films and spin them into Americanized versions

That's the entire history of Hollywood and american music industry. Those businesses who wouldn't like us to share made their fortunes on entirely borrowed things from other cultures. Many of the great revered american singers copied note-for-note traditional african songs, for example.

Re:Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017) by uoaei on Thursday January 13, 2022 @07:09PM (#29928834)
Intellectual property theft is a great business idea, you're right! Quite the condemnation of both social constructs :)
Re:Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017) by elvis70 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @02:53PM (#29925900)
At least, René Manzor was eventually hired by Amblin.