My daughter wanted me to buy her a DVD of Pirates of the Caribbean. The store that sold legal DVDs didn’t have it, so we went to a place that sold pirated ones. There they offered me a disc with eight films: Pirates of the Caribbean, Pirates of the Caribbean 2, and all sorts of other pirate-themed stuff, **for 50 rubles! **50 rubles. Eight films. All in excellent quality! What’s more, the same store was selling identical discs not in plastic cases but in paper sleeves for just 20 rubles! Two and a half rubles per film. My friends, we have to do something about piracy! Foreign films can still manage—they make their money back in their own domestic release. But ours? Even if you make a masterpiece, you won’t earn a damn thing. If we don’t defeat piracy, we’ll be forced until the end of time to make do exclusively with works by the children of famous Soviet directors. And that’s ужасно. I’m already sick of Bondarchuk, Efremov, and so on.