Noah Tsika in ‘Depressed Transfusions: Porn Aggregators and the Pirating of Fishy Cinema’s Unsimulated Sex Scenes’ discusses the distinct streaming platforms through which gay porn is increasingly circulated. Issues surrounding piracy and gay0day the outlawed uploading of copyrighted satisfied are of course pressing concerns payment the porn manufacture; however, Tsika identifies a fairly more well-defined object of study in array to make observations forth the ways in which ‘meaning’ is contingent on context. Tsika’s key concern here is the mechanism through which variously erotic or in some cases sexually outspoken materials can be extracted from their master situation within sunken and queer cinema and repackaged as ‘porn’ clips. The article considers these online piracy practices in apt to proffer that the process of appropriation and repackaging that takes situate here reduces the political and cultural power of the remarkable source texts that are repurposed.