Born a Crime
In Germany, no child finishes high school without learning about the Holocaust. Not just the facts of it but the how and the why ...
taught that way. We weren’t taught judgment or shame. We were taught history the way it’s taught in America. In America, the his ...
GO HITLER! When I was in grade nine, three Chinese kids transferred to Sandringham: Bolo, Bruce Lee, and John. They were the onl ...
Van Damme movie Bloodsport. Bruce Lee’s name really was Bruce Lee, which made our lives. Here was this Chinese guy, quiet, good- ...
bootleg PlayStation games around school. Kids would give him their PlayStation, and he’d bring it back a few days later with a c ...
they could take Andrew’s and Bolo’s merchandise, say “I’ll pay you later,” and then not pay, because Andrew and Bolo were too sc ...
As the tuck-shop guy, I was perfectly positioned. I had my network set up. All I had to do was tap into it. With the money I mad ...
expensive component. At the time a CD writer cost as much as the rest of the computer, nearly 2,000 rand. I worked as a middlema ...
The day Andrew gave it to me, he changed my life. Thanks to him, I now controlled production, sales, distribution—I had everythi ...
but at the time I knew nothing about music, which was odd for someone running a music-pirating business. The only music I knew, ...
there while each CD played, for a long time I didn’t really listen to them. I knew it was against the dealer’s code: Never get h ...
When I started, I had a dial-up connection and a 24k modem. It would take a day to download an album. But technology kept evolvi ...
copying whole albums, why don’t you put the best tracks of different albums onto one CD, because people only wanna hear the song ...
that looked like two vinyl records side by side, and I could mix and fade between songs, basically everything a DJ can do live. ...
expenses, I was living the dream. For the first time in my life I had money, and it was the most liberating thing in the world. ...
crazy. That’s true to this day. A Burger King opened for the first time in South Africa last year, and there was a queue around ...
from movies. We never even dreamed we would ever get one in South Africa; McDonald’s seemed to us like one of those American thi ...
With my own money I was like, Let’s do this. I went all in. They didn’t have “supersize” at the time; “large” was the biggest. S ...
up to be. A few bites later you’re like, Hmm, there’s a lot wrong with this. Then you’re done, you miss it like crazy, and you g ...
bones.” “I think I’m gonna go with McDonald’s again.” “Tonight we’re having chicken feet.” “Hmmmmm...Okay, I’m in. But tomorrow ...
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