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Aardman Animations Releasing New Animations Online

Posted by Hemos on from the cool-animation-stuff dept.

michael writes "Apparently, Aardman Animations, who made the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit films will be releasing their latest work over the Web rather than through cinemas or television. They also mention that the company 'will encourage viewers to distribute the animated films by e-mail.' " It'll be using the new character, Angry Kid, who will /not/ be at all like Wallace and Gromit. May 7 is the first release date.

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  1. MPAA by Signal+11 · · Score: 5
    I represent the MPAA/AOL/Time-Warner/US Government/Sun/Echelon super-mega-international conglomerate, and I am hereby suing you. By giving away your work, you are encouraging other people to do the same, and hurting the consumer (actually, our profit margin, but that's our story and we're sticking to it!). We'll have nothing of it, and effective immediately we're filing lawsuits in 32 states, 3 canadian providences, and a few other countries. The President in a high-level summit assured us Congress will pass legislation making it illegal to distribute legal video and the UN has called a special convention to discuss the use of tactical nukes on the deviant artists. We'll have no deviant artistic talent in this country!

    By reading this post, you consent to be bound by it's terms. TERMS: You must moderate this +1 if reading on slashdot, or reply saying something posititive if viewing on another medium or do not have moderator points. You further agree with the poster in all respects and will not visit the site, or download any video not MPAA Approved. Failure to do so will result in your monitor exploding and your speakers melting (thanks intel!).

    Your compliance is appreciated,

    ~ The MPAA

  2. Distribute movies by email????? by Manaz · · Score: 5

    IMHO, this is a *bad* thing to encourage users to do.

    Email was never intended to be used for file transfers, and is poorly suited to this task. Message attachments, or the ability to make attachments, is a hack of the system - if you've ever read an email without decoding the "attachment" all you see is a rather large amount of seemingly meaningless text.

    It's also important to note that the majority of people connected to the Internet are still connected with analogue modems - and to download even a 2MB file can cause timeouts on a 56k (or 33.6k) line.

    I cannot recount the number of times I had to clear a "blocked" mailbox in my 5-odd years of working in the ISP industry, mainly due to the presense of a message with a large (2MB or above) attachment.