Blog Post #8

1. Piracy according to the text is the willingness to sell anything to anyone, anywhere. whether it is legal or illegal. Piracy impacted the production on Nollywood films because it is the foundation which legal industries are formed. It allows less economically stabled countries to have access to this content. Piracy positively influenced the success of Brazilian film Trope de Elites sequel because a copy was leaked two months before the movie debuted. They film ended up receiving tons of millions of legal views after the leak.

2. Appadurai, is referring to the differentiation between commercial and non commercial. It is relevant to transitionalism because eventually diversion become predictable and turn into paths that will inspire new diversions.

3. odorless refers to having few traces of cultural origins. Fragrant are those embraced for being culturally distinctive. The difference between the two types of goods is that one tends to have a sweeter sense of culture than the other. Fragrant is the term associated with "pop cosmopolitanism".