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Pakistani DVD Burner with Megaphone. From Foreign Policy., originally uploaded by Koosama.

From our correspondent: “Just take a stroll around the six blocks or so surrounding the Golden Mosque in Manila. Or any of the tiangge-malls around the city. And then read the news item below. What a difference! And there are myopic bureaucrats who accept “incentives” from Hollywood Big Media and want to close down the censorship-free “Quiapo cinematheque”.

“When the barangay heads of the Muslim quartier were called to a meeting by PGMA to stop selling Godard and Bertolucci films, they pointed out that because of the DVD market the neighborhood was crime-free for the first time in its history.

“Funny that like the site of the DVD-burning in Islamabad, Quiapo is also less than two kilometers away from the Presidential Palace.”

Here’s the piece from the Foreign Policy editors blog. “ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – APRIL 06: Students at an Islamic madrassa burn thousands of DVDs, videos and music CDs April 6, 2007 at the Lal Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan. . .”