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Disney's Anti-File Swapping Cartoon
LordXarph writes: "Newsforge has a story about Disney's anti-file swapping episode of their cartoon "Proud Family." The synopsis is simply hysterical; I'm waiting for someone to write a gnutella servent called EZ-Jackster."
the first post.
It was probably created by artists.
I think it sounds funny, and you guys are probably going to get all bent out of shape... but i wonder how many people of the target audience actually watch this.... it'll probably get more hits from slashdot than anything else...
on Gnutella, or something?? ;)
And now we have proof. Before, it was just that weird cat-like logo, obviously a reference to the cat-like stealth of evil Asian ninjas.
Now Disney blows the whole facade away and shows music stealing for what it is: an attempt to bankrupt Asian music store owners.
A lesson in IP morality, coming from Disney?
Next thing you know, Nike will feature ads exorting how NOT exploiting foreign workers in sweatshops is anti-American, and Just Plain Wrong(tm).
Tech giants pan anti-piracy mandate!
It's good to see this, after all the press the evil big-media giants have been getting lately! :-)
299,792,458 m/s...not just a good idea, its the law!
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
Score: -1 100% Flamebait
IRC maybe?
I would love to see this but seeing as how it is some crappy kids cartoon no one probably bothered to record it.
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
Create a little cartoon or someone trying to print an image from a movie for a school book report, and the police surrounding the house. Or maybe a someone trying to setup an ebook reader for their blind friend, and the FBI busting down the door. Or a professor talking about encryption in a classroom and the RIAA comes in with a muzzle.
Fight Spammers!
I wonder if this episode is gonna get pirated...
If you think stealing copyrighted songs is evil...you should watch the many infamous porn-related scenes in various Disney classics, such as the "Good teenagers...take off their clothes" line in "Aladdin", and the pen1s-shaped castles in "The Little Mermaid". This isn't a troll or flamebait -- do your research and you'll see.
If you celebrate Xmas, befriend me (538
I mean, from the "spent $125 on cd's from her $.05 salary" and "the girl was arrested by the police who showed up at her door" and calling the artist "Sir-Paid-A-Lot"???!?!? This is almost word-for-word what I would have done if I was *parodying* propaganda....
Next up, hunters using "Bambi" as material for showing why hunting is great.
Cheers,
- RLJ
Of course, I am assuming that anyone reading this thinks filesharing is great and that Disney is evil; this is true for only about 95% of the Slashdot readership, I'm sure :).
I wouldn't worry about this sort of propoganda actually affecting children's attitudes. It's simply too clumsy (and obvious and contrived.) Children, while many people who make children's programming don't realise this, are not stupid. They can spot something phony and manipulative(which you have to admit that this is, even if you agree that filesharing is wrong) from a mile away.
It's about as likely to drive the next generation of children away from filesharing as all those Captain Planet cartoons where to make people environmentalists. Less likely, since Captain Planet was less obviously hokey.
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
Why not?
Why Ask why?
What you think i know everything?
We substituted the coffee Slashdot normally drinks with "Sandoz Crystals", Lets see if they notice the difference
What is that, like 4 or 5 today? Do these site admins sit on IRC all day, warn each other or something?
the official Disney page for the show is here, I didn't see anything about "anti-file swapping" on the site. From the looks of the flash promo it seems to be a post ren n' stimpy style modern urban comedy.
this is my sig.
As an aside, amazingly enough, the only place where i've seen anything close to fair reporting on a parent compant was...*gasp* MSNBC
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan
They're assimilating the public! But wait, there is hope...
...Slashdotting! Yes, our unique weapon against any site we link to! (maybe we should link to other pro-DMCA pages...)
/.! It's not illegal... yet...
That sir-paid-alot or whatever the fuck his name is, is complaining about not getting his million bucks, yet he doesn't give a rip about shelling out $125 on that 5 cent salary. Now, Im quite conservative, but the message disney is sending is fucked.
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What freaks me out is that I can't tell whether they were spewing out propaganda back then too, or if they became the borg only in recent years. News like this make me suspect the world would benefit greatly if someone carefully analyzed Snow White, Fantasia, The Little Mermaid etc. I wouldn't be surprised if one were two find more than a couple of satanic messages when they are played backwards.
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok
While it's not technically 'stealing'...neither is time shifting or are fair use backups, but Disney characterizes them as 'stealing'.
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
Dear kids, downloading doesn't give you hairy palms and make you go blind ... oh, wait, I guess it depends on what you download.
The phallic castles are real. The alladin line is wrong, check out the article on snopes link
I always find it funny whenever slashdot links to a NewsForge article, which obviously would get thousands of hits from that linking, and yet only has 3 or 4 comments, while the slashdot post has several hundred. A question to everyone, why do you never comment on the NewsForge site itself? I'm just curious.
First, no one ever downloaded a song *from* Napster. The software let you find a song and download it from another independant computer. Second, why does this sound like propaganda aimed at little kids to me? "Don't download music from the internet or no one will ever love you!!"
:)
And another thing!
I don't recall it ever being proved that Napster directly caused CD sales to go down.
Wasn't this already done in Futurama, when Fry downloaded Lucy Liu's personality and appearance from kidnapster.com into a robot?
JET Program: see Japan, meet intere
;-)
I'd like to see it played out
"The Most Fun Possible on 4 wheels" is at SunBuggy in Las Vegas
yup!
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok
After realizing that "Downloadin' is stealin'", she went back to spending "$125 on CDs with her five-cent salary".
The moral is: spend 2500 times your salary on us or you're going to jail.
An episode where Bill Gates shows up at a kid's doorstep complaining that he is poor?
;)
I think it's time for open source cartoons
Marijn
...that this is an urban legend; the line (which Aladdin mutters to Jasmine's pet tiger), is "Scat, good tiger, take off and go."
But the story got picked up by the same credulous
wackos who insist the Procter and Gamble logo is Satanic, and now it won't die...
SOCIAL ENGINEERING! Damn, I can't believe they would stoop this low. Using their own medium to prevent piracy...
hmmmm... sound familiar?
Remember back in the 80's when we as children were all assaulted with those terrible anti-drug ads from the mind of Nancy Reagan? The "this is your brain on drugs" ad being singled out as the possibly least effective ad of all time? Now, after seeing our favorite cartoon characters turn down drugs and tell us how "bad" they were... what effect did it have?
Most of us got to college (maybe even high school), opened our minds, tried some pot, maybe liked it, and have a pretty non-chalant view of things... maybe even smoking up every now and then. Those who don't do drugs do so for their own reasons, not because Arnold on "Diff'rent Strokes" told them not to. So the effect on today's kids will be exactly zero. If anything, they'll realize the lame "do-gooder" condescending attitude, and another piece of tripe will become unpopular and get cancelled.
btw: have you written your representives about the SSSCA yet? i have!
May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage. RAmen.
I wouldn't be surprised if Disney lawyers are watching this thread right now. They are probably even writing up a cease and desist letter as we post.
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Wow. This is the first time I've seen the airing of a piece of blatant, unapologetic propaganda directed at children since the World War 2 era. Sure, it's been around to a certain extent since then, but always in a very underhanded, not-so-easy-to-detect form. You've got to hand it to the content-direction people at Disney, they must have balls the size of tank bearings to pull a stunt like this. I honestly don't know whether to be appalled or impressed.
I'm still waiting for all this free mp3 trading to actually make Albulm sales go down.
Anyone got a Divx copy?
ReadThe ReflectionEngine, a cyberpunk style n
Along about the time Sir Paid Alot complains about his 5 cent royalty check, his lawyer looks at his contract:
"Lets see, your advance was $500,000, your touring cost was $1,000,000, the label gets 50% of the gate on your gigs, and your royalty rate on CD's is only half what it is for vinyl. Boy, you're lucky you got a whole nickel!"
A well-crafted lie appears unquestionable - Dama Mahaleo
Newsforge doesn't want to load on my end, so I can't see the summary yet. I just hope and pray that Blueboy is involved somehow, or at least a debate about the issue with Howard Hessemann.
Mickey is just havin' a blast, piloting his little steamboat down the ol' Mississip'. He's whistling a little tune that sounds mysteriously like "Whistle While You Work" (Which of course, Disney owns). Suddenly, a huge lizard leaps from a nearby bush into the cockpit of the steamboat, screaming "GRRR!!! I'M HILARY ROSEN!!! YOU DIDN'T PAY FOR THE DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS FOR THAT SONG, YOU THIEF!!! PAY UP NOW!!!". Mickey is scared, but he sheepishly pulls out his cartoon pockets to demonstrate that they are empty, and Mr. Mouse doesn't have any money. Hilary punches Mickey twice, knocks him out, puts handcuffs on his hands and feet, and runs his steamboat aground. She leaps off the deck while clutching at his neck, and in the mean time, lots of bipedal dogs in black suits with sunglasses proceed to hack Mickey's boat to pieces with pickaxes. The end.
"Mod, mod, mod...and another troll bites the dust."
companies try to teach kids what's hip and with it by using their peers.
You don't have to prove your love
Zip it!
I don't have to smoke to be cool.
I'm just going to set here and rock out with my guitar.
Maybe they should write the episode to reflect
monopolistic media empires as evil:
"just by watching the eveal mouse
you contribute to the downfail of civilization"
Oh, I'm sorry, bin laden already wrote that
script.
What a bunch of pinheads those disney geeks are.
I admit I haven't seen the show, but how couldanyone think that a rap star named "Sir Paid-a-lot" helps to advocate anti-piracy? Unless there are some serious differences between the "review" and the actual show, this sounds a whole lot like a PRO-Piracy cartoon.
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
...downloading pirated music IS stealing. And because so many people cannot behave ethicaly, we are all going to end up with computers that wont let us copy. It's kind of like installing devices in cars that won't let us speed. Immoral behavior doesn't justify oppression but the threat of oppression doesn't justify immoral behavior either.
Time to burn our public libraries.
While Disney is lecturing us on Morality and IP law, they could tell us about the evils of plagarism and how if you're a big corporation you can get away with pretty much anything while fucking the little guy. And how bastardizing history and cultural myths for a quick buck should be frowned upon and at least accompanied by a disclaimer.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Maybe they'll make a new cartoon about a huge company that spends millions of dollars lobbying the government to *retroactively* extend copyrights 20 years just as the copyrights to its valuable intellectual property is about to expire.
See this link to see how the public domain is being robbed.
...maybe I can download from Kazaa! Ooh the irony!!
Just out of curiosity, I was wondering if there isn't a hidden message in this, after all, Disney is famous for putting hidden messages in thier work. I am particularly cusious about "Dijonay", which is pronounced correctly sounds kind of like "Disney"... And this is the guy "spreading the word" about EZ-Jackster. Things are afoot at Disney, methinks...
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
And we certainly have reasons to suspect the Mouse's motives here, I've often thought this is the right approach.
Wholesale copying of music against the permission of its creators is wrong, and our children should be informed that it's wrong. The complex issues of monopolies and exploitation of musicians are for adults to solve.
In truth, the message we want to send here is not to blame the technology of filesharing, but the people who use it for ill. But because the RIAA and others don't see a way to get at the actual copyright infringers, they attack the filesharing technology itself, and now our PCs themselves.
I say, when they point out that the actual infringements are the problem, we should agree with them. But fight them when they want to punish technologies or the people who aren't infringing.
Has it been over a year since you last donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation
"Tell me how this is not wrong? Sure maybe its not physical theft but it can be just as dangerous. "
...
Can you imagine, in a world without copyright, there would be no financial reward for people like Britney Spears, and she could'nt afford fake boobs. In this miraculous world, the Backstreet Boys would shut the fuck up, Michael Jackson would still have a humanoid face,
What a wonderful world it would be.
Remember the Futurama-episode with Fry and this Luzy-Lou bots? And how he downloaded it from (kid)napster? Same story... Looks, like they are trying to get this story in our heads...
Napster or any other filesharing system (except possibly Audiogalaxy and Scour, although they still required software) are not and were not fucking websites! They are software and nothing else. Every single mainstream news source says this. I'd expect Newsforge to be smart enough to know the difference between websites and standalone software. Ahh, that feels better now.
Disney proudly brainwashing the masses for 6 generations.
You know, seems to be, we should be teaching people to think for themselves not shoving this crap down thier throats...I guess Disney goes no my boycott List...humm which would work if they didn't own ESPN, ABC, and like a zillion other things. Seriously though I guess its thier opinion and they have a right to express it, but its the Target audience that scares me...Kids should be watching TV that teaches them to think for themselves and make thier own choices. 'Nuff said.
Power Corrupts,Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely, leaving one person(group)in charge is absolutely corrupt.
... how similar this is to the whole "Say no to drugs" campaigning that was sanctioned by the government for the longest time. Lots of kids programs featured episodes based around it - and did they work? No!
Have you seen Traffic? We all know that the drug problem is complex and non-trivial to solve. File swapping is the same. The solution is not to try and stop people from swapping digital content, but to figure out how free digital content can integrate with our lives.
The whole disney thing is 'spooky' of course (the contrast between disney's lovely family face and this underhanded propaganda is just fabulous), but perhaps not something to worry about.
Ash OS durbatulk, ash OS gimbatul, ash OS thrakatulk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul! Uzg-MS-ishi amal fauthut burgulli.
Hmm, how is this "offtopic"?
Things like this make me want to come up with a new /. poll:
Who is more evil?
Microsoft
RIAA
MPAA
RMS
ESR
The DOJ
Congress
CowboyNeal
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
Do you understand? Walt Disney was a good man, but when he died, his company was taken over by money-grubbing jews bent on spreading their leftist propoganda.
The old classics aren't even safe. For example, the jews digitally changed Snow White's eyes from blue to brown! Can you believe that shit? Not to mention the fact that the jewish overlords at Disney have supressed old children's favorites like Song of the South.
-- .
The truth is out there . .
y'know, this is some funny shit!
Does anyone remember the episode where Fry "downloads" a copy of Lucy lu? Bad things happen, like the Lucy lu bots go crazy and destroy things. The show ends with the Lucy lu bot saying that pirarcy it bad. It left me with a bad feeling.
Ben
maye0122@NOSPAMtc.umn.edu
or just on the Disney Channel? Anyone?
In the new series released by Microsoft Entertainment, "Corporate Family", an episode criticizes open source software.
I'm currently taking a class so that I can start putting stuff on the local public-access TV station. I'm planning to do a lot of short blurbs, including stuff against the DMCA, the SSSCA, the extent of copyright law in general, monopoly power, and so on, for an audience of people who don't necessarily know *anything* about the issues we discuss here every day. Given another three or four months, I think I'll get quite a collection.
I'm also planning to so some pro-Linux/Free Software stuff, as well as tutorials on using some Free Software programs.
The trickiest thing is the distribution. I'd love to just put the videos on my web site, and let everyone download them (GPLed, of course, so people can share them with others), but I pay enough for bandwidth that I'm afraid one slashdotting would wipe me out. Any ideas?
Wow. That's like reading an account of a virulent outbreak of the stupidity plague, from the index patient (the good Ms. Runge) to the CDC's post-mortem play-by-play.
Riiiiigggghhhhtttt. Go to that same web site, and listen to the sound clips. I don't care what the fvcking movie script says, it's what we HEAR that counts. And we hear "Good teenagers...take off their clothes". End of story.
If you celebrate Xmas, befriend me (538
Not to be an asshole or anything, but this is just a little to surreal to be taken at face value. Is there anyone who is *absolutely*, *positively* sure that this is NOT satire?
Ya know, kinda like that seekrit RIAA meeting on newsforge a week or two ago.
so what's wrong if someone causes the downfall of music industry?
May be after it happens, we can finally can listen a real music, not the one prepared for us by 'music industry'.
Sorry, the Aladdin line is correct. I have listened
to it myself. If you don't believe me find a old version of Aladdin (Disney has probably edited it out in newer versions), go to the scene where Aladdin is sneaking on the balcony of the princess and listen closely.
slashdot is so boring these days
Just out of curiosity, what are the open source technologies for animation?
Talk about a preachy cartoon...
My god!
:)
Reminds me of this onion article
As soon as I stop typing this post I'm geeting this video... sounds like it may be a classic like "reefer madness" or "duck and cover." This could be the best thing Disney has ever made!
because I have a feeling you didn't 'check' anything, and you're simply spouting uniformed opinion.
ReadThe ReflectionEngine, a cyberpunk style n
...that this is an urban legend [snopes2.com];
NO IT IS NOT!
I have personally listened to it, and I heard it. Take your copy of Alladin, go to that scene, and listen with the volume way up. It's something along the line of "good kitty... (takes off all her clothes)" or something, I don't remember but I remember hearing it.
Same with the dust that was in the movie... The Lion King? (I don't remember which movie it was, could have been Alladin was well) that spelled out "SEX" if you played it in slow motion. It was there, I didn't believe it at first but when I saw it, in no uncertain terms, with my own eyes...
If you don't believe me, go and rent a copy for yourself. I think it's at the scene where they're at the balcony and he's being approached by the "big cat".
If God gave us curiosity
here.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
i can just see it now, D.A.R.E 2, downloading abuse resistance education.
you may laugh now, just wait until your kid comes home with a handbook featuring Fido the IP Protection Dog, who keeps little cindy and joe away from all the scary bad men that tell them that "it's fun, all the cool kids are doing it." but thanks to fido and all their D.A.R.E. 2 education, they can just say no.
Lila tells Fry about "Nappster" a napster for celebrity personalities that can be plugged into robots. They don't even do the obvious "NapSTAR" joke (celebrities==stars, gets?), and the logo for the site is just the Napster logo with the "p" copy-pasted. Anyway, they do some Tron scenes, and Fry dl's Lucy Liu into an IBM formatted bot. He makes out with the bot until the rest of them decide he's got problems and show him a 50's "even though the robots are better than real people, you have to propogate the spiecies" educational movie. For some reason they go to the Nappster building, and find that the sign on the building says "Kidnappster" with the "kid" covered up with tape. Lila calls the guys working there seweaty nerds, and then breaks down the "Restricted" door that all corporate offices have. The back room is full of heads-in-jars that are gratuitously given electric shocks every time someone downloads them.
Lila: "Ha! And they said a little copying never hurt anybody!"
They rescue Lucy and randomly get attacked by Lucy Liu bots. They run into a movie theater and force feed the bots popcorn until they explode, injuring Fry's bot as she does a bodyguard jump to save them from the flying corn. The Lucy head and everyone else tell Fry he has to delete the Lucy copy, so he does a little dramatic crying thing and deletes her.
Fry: "Now maybe I can get to know the real Lucy Liu!"
Lucy blows him off and makes out with Bender.
Okay. But it made me laugh.
Trees can't go dancing
So do them a big favor
Pretend dancing stinks!
FreeIPX
Wipeout
Center for the Public Domain
That show sucks anyways... No one watches it that I know of...
Winter 2010: With Glowing Hearts
Bam. Well it's comics really.
"Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!"
*orchestral introduction*
*climactic overture*
*Disney execs come out on stage*
Zip-e-de-doo-dah, zip-e-dee-ey
My oh my, file sharing is gay!
Plenty of sunshine, heading our way
when we strengthen, that DMCA!
Mr Bill Gates on our shoulders
its the truth, its factual!
Everything is Digitally Rights Managed!
(Including this slashdot post!)
Zip-e-de-doo-dah, zip-e-dee-ey
My oh my, file sharing is gay!
Plenty of sunshine, heading our way
when we strengthen, that DMCA!
*rousing applause from the MPAA and RIAA*
Heh... enjoy
Talez
maybe you should host your site on freenet >> . . or at least that would be a posiblity in the future. .and you would not have to worry about being arested because you said the DMCA was a bad idea. or happen to flash the six lines of perl that decode a DVD
>>
I'd really like to VIEW this video since I don't get cable (let alone have a television (thank god)).
Why bother.
Song lyrics and movie lines get mis-understood all the time. Check here and here for two sites that host databases of misunderstood song lyrics. In fact, i forget what song it was... way back in the day, i heard about it on VH1... it was like the monkees or something, that the song was banned because someone put out an alternate set of lyrics that were less than tasteful (sex and drug related)... but the best part of it was that if you had these alternate lyrics in front of you, it does actually sound like they are saying it.
1. Girl working at her antiquated computer her dad gave her in her room.
2. Mystery guy (cool hip hop looking dude in black) shows up at her window and supplies her with an up to date computer, takes her into "the Matrix" and shows her a web area called Free Jackster where she can get all the music she could ever want FOR FREE.
3. The girl asks if this is illegal and mystery guy explains it is our birthright to have free music, creativity should not have a price.
4. Girl gets addicted to collecting free music, her obsession leads to telling all her friends. Soon the site is getting millions of hits from kids to grandmothers.
5. Next scene at the The Wizard Record Label board room where "Sir Paid Alot" enters to complain his royalty check was only five cents. This alerts The Wizard (head of the label) that there is a retail problem he needs to look into.
6. Teen Girl's house is surrounded that night by police and press and she is arrested for illegal downloads, gets a warning. The news makes it clear that millions of people can't be stopped. Parents take computer away from girl and explain why free downloads is STEALING -- kind of an abirdged explanation of how copyrights work.
7. Next scene, Asian Guy's retail record store is empty, guy is crying on the floor. Teen Girl who happens to work at the store shows up to work, Asian guy fires her for supporting all the free downloads.
8. Next scene charts showing record sales are down down down to nothing because people get the music for free.
9. Sir Paid Alot gets 100 million hits on his website from freeloading fans who now love his music and previously would have never actually purchased his CD, gushing about how wonderful Free Jackster is. GeekBoy, an employee who runs his website and has spikey hair and a nose ring, runs around looking exasperated because a mercury thermometer attached to Sir Paid Alot's server blows its top and spits gallons of mercury all over the server room like an oil well blowing it's top, while cartoonish sirens go off.
10. Slick Dick, an Ad Exec representing BoingBoing Sneaker Company shows up at Sir Paid Alot's home in a shiny pointy pinstripe suit with a suitcase full of $100 bills if Sir Mix Alot will only wear their sneakers and show their logo all over his (now) sold out Nationwide tour. We see The Wizard outside Sir Mix Alot's mansion gates panhandling for money as Slick Dick leaves.
11. Mystery Guy hires Asian Guy to write reviews of Sir Mix Alot's Greatest Hits downloads on the Free Jackster website. Jump to a Flash Movie Asian Guy produces in pantomime style of the late-night "only $19.95" Greatest Hits Album commercials, complete with scrolling song titles and Sir Mix Alot performing a la Yanni and Anne Murray behind the titles.
12. Asian Guy proclaims he loves his new job because now he can do nothing but write about his first love, music, and not have to worry every day how The Wizard was always trying to rip him off as an independent Record Store owner. Cut to flashback where the Wizard shows up at Asian Guys' shop offering CDs priced at $11.99 while right behind Asian Guy "crying on the floor," we see he is selling his CDs for $12.00. We see Asian Guy leaving Free Jackster's offices with Rio-like device in hand, big grin and kewl shades, listening to Sir Mix Alot song, grimacing and throwing a few pennies at The Wizard begging on the street.
13. At his sold out concert, with "kids and grandmothers" all rockin' out, Sir Paid Alot calls Teen Girl on stage, thanks her for getting rid of the "Blood-sucking middlemen" out of his life and letting him do what he always liked to do, rap fantastic straight to his fans saying his "creativity should not have a price."
14. Sir Paid Alot makes up a rap right on the spot for Teen Girl, she swoons and her eyes turn into beating hearts bulging out of her eyesockets.
15. On her cell phone going to Las Vegas in the back of Sir Paid Alot's limo, Teen Girl explains to her parents why the copyright system works in the old world of Vinyl and CDs, but in the new world of electronic bits, an economy of scale ensures that the artists get even more money from a more democratic connection between them and their fans and without any middlemen, sort of like the radio, with sponsors paying him endorsement fees rather than the artist getting royalty checks. She explains how Asian Guy's reviews on his now super-popular website ensures that people get exposed to new artists and new forms of popular music. Cut again to GeekBoy running around server room while mercury thermometer attached to server gushes, with Asian Guy in the background taps happily away at a computer, writing reviews.
16. Her parents are impressed but yell at her for being in a much older Rapper's limo and being underage and tell her to come home immediately. Via Free Jackster on the computer they took away from her and her cell phone, they send her a copy of a Barney song she always listened to as a kid and that she had lost in CD form, but now is eternally available for free via the Web, conveniently and quickly, wherever they may be, with whatever device, without any red tape involved. Teen Girl cries and jumps out of the limo into a passing car being driven by Mystery Guy heading in the opposite direction. Mystery Guy drives her home where "police and press" treat her to a lavish homecoming.
17. Mystery Guy puts on a baseball cap, complaining "my hair is always too nappy", saying to Mystery Girl, "I'm a teenager too." They kiss and the cartoon closes with Sir Mix Alot singing a la Barry White to them in the background.
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
but I pay enough for bandwidth that I'm afraid one slashdotting would wipe me out. Any ideas?
:)
You can insert the video into Freenet, and it will remain available so long as even minimal interest remains. In addition, Freenet will automatically replicate it to multiple servers around the world to meet local demand. It's like a demand-driven free Akamai. (Okay, that may be a stretch
I really think Freenet is a great idea, and I also think it would be a great idea if non-commercial pages could be inserted into Freenet shortly before being Slashdotted. Then the Freenet architects would have a lot more performance data to study so long as many Slashdotters would view the Freenet version. And the way things are going in the US Congress these days, we may need the protections Freenet has always offered readers in more oppressive nations. Hell I would think, legal issues notwithstanding, it would be easy for someone to start replying to mirror requests with a Freesite. A simple wget and URL cleansing would produce an easily-insertable site.
Intelligent Life on Earth
Considering it was TW cable, who do you think wrote that one up?
If disney wants to discuss IP, they'd better take a look at This site.
Basically, Disney ripped their latest fiasco, Lost city of Atlantis, straight from Nadia, queen of the see, a terriffic anime job.
And they say they had never heard of Nadia... Take a look and see what you think.
~z
sig?
The brain is really good at piecing together words from dounds. People who are mostly deaf can still follow conversation because human speech is so predictable. If you're expecting to hear "Good teenagers take of their clothes," that's what you'll hear. If you're expecting to hear the original line, you'll hear that instead.
As a small, anecdotal example of how the loop from ears to brain is not quite perfect, try this "verbal illusion." Say the word "ace" over and over again, and it will morph into the word "say". What's really cool is if you keep going, then the word morphs again into... Well, you try it.
Walt
If you make an exact duplicate of something
You can't exactly "steal" it.
... the authors of that particular episode!
It would be very interesting to hear the opinions of the individuals involved with writing, directing and animating that particular episode. Was it entirely their idea? Did the episode come down as a direct edict from Disney executives? Who wrote it and why? Have these individuals ever used P2P file sharing programs? If so, which ones? Have they even ever used a computer? Do they think there is any legitimate use for P2P sharing of any kind or is P2P inherently criminal activity, guilty by default etc etc.
And if Disney forbids them from public comments, that needs publicizing as well.
Did anyone catch the credit list? Time to do some detective work.
1) This is not hysterical[1]. It might be hysterical if it weren't so deadly serious. Disney, for all of their happiness, is probably the number one master of propaganda; and always has been. Go watch the war films of the 1940s. Watch the anti-drug movies. See if you can find the anti-black movies of the earliest years. Disney is a manipulator.
...in a funny sense, that is
2) This is utterly hysterical. It is based entirely on hysteria--mass, unthinking response to carefully calculated images, designed to drive crowds.
Do you think that by recognising and avoiding being part of the 'mindless throng' you're safe? Go ask Pete Seeger about the 'witch trials' of the 1950s.
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"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
This reeks of the same type of brain-washing employed by the Nazi's in WWII: "Do what WE WANT, or else SUFFER."
It is similar to ads put out by various interest groups, such as:
1. Those ads which try to tell parents they shouldn't smoke in their own home if they have kids(the "Lets take it outside ads").
2. The add which showed a black man being dragged behind a truck and said that "because GW Bush doesn't support 'hate crimes legislation' he is just as bad as the KKK racists who dragged that man to his death."
3. The cabletheft ads: "Cabletheft: its a crime." These are the ads that feature a young girl telling the viewers "daddy says we get cable by that magic box" and then show a policeman coming up to the door and arresting the father, and him being sent off to jail.
4. The "insurance fraud" ads which show a couple of bruisers in jail, remarking on why they got there, and then some skinny guy saying he frauded insurance companies. Then the add proceeds to show the bruiser inmates getting upset because "he was the one who made their insurance companies raise their rates." The punchline is: "Insurance fraud: its a crime." The implication is that this man spends his days in jail being raped up the ass and beaten by the two ruffs.
These type of propaganda adds -- and now propaganda cartoons -- are sickening. The idea is to persuade adults to do as the interest group wants by striking terror into them in most cases.
In the case of this cartoon, its even worse: they're targetting children. They want to brainwash children into accepting *their* viewpoints. This is an attempt by the RIAA/MPAA to sway the younger generations from their natural tendancies to trade information freely, towards the RIAA/MPAA's nazi views, overriding the proper right of parents to morally educate their children.
In short, this is the RIAA/MPAA doing the same thing to OUR children that Hitler did to the children of Germany. Children were brainwashed, and used as tools against their parents.
social sciences can never use experience to verify their statemen
P...I...R, Arruuggghhh, we're at it again...A...C...Y..., Why? because we DON'T like you...M...ooo...uuuu...sss..eee.
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DMCA == Dis Mouse's Congressional Administration?
(off topic, but no ranting)
I apologise if this has been done (redundant) and to the moderators as well, but, you have to admit, being modded down as a "troll" every time I try to be funny gets a little annoying.
See it from my point of view, I post something amusing 1 post out of 10 is modded up, the rest down... as a troll... Ok, I got a warped sense of humor, but really now.
If it is one person...what is your beef?
If it is several, ok, point taken.
But modding someone down because you don't like or get their humor is like punishing a child for trying to expand their horizons.
Modding me down for being an asshole, I'd do the same.
Modding me down for trying/being funny...that is not right!.)
Ok, I'm done trying to sweep the tide with a push broom.
Mmmm..O..OO..S..eeeeee
Have you read the moderator guidelines? Well, have you, PUNK? (and I want a Karma: Gnarly option)
One does not watch TV in order to learn how to think. One does not conform to others to learn individualism. Using TV to promote critical thinking and individualism is like letting the NAMBLA run daycare centers.
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Gamaliel of Chaos
I just kept envisioning the corporate memo that must have led to the creation of this episode. The Proud Family is easily the worst of the shows on the channel, so I can see why the producers kissed whatever they had to in order to survive! I laughed all the way through! :)
The Procter & Gamble / Satanism thing isn't so much an urban legend
as it is an outright lie spread by Amway distributors.
I peripherally know a guy who has got involved in Amway. He was always a little weird, and into these get-rich-quick schemes, but now it's like he's been brainwashed by a cult or something. Scary stuff.
True, but I would contend that the vast majority of it is illegal. The majority of people who used Napster "back in the day" were not people looking to get mp3's of CDs they already bought but didn't have on hand. Some people were indeed getting songs for a test drive of sorts - see if they like it and buy the CD if they do. That is still illegal and that's the part I'd like to have legal as I think it hurts both sales and consumers. Right now there is no guarantee that you like what you buy and if there was, consumers would have more confidence in their purchases and be less reluctant to buy CDs. Still, the guy sitting in the cubicle next to me has literally 1000+ mp3s and owns 20-30 CDs total - he is *stealing* - he's really defrauding the artists (and, yes, the record labels I hate at least as much as you do) of their royalties and the way they can keep working as artists.
I want to see my rights protected but I don't want to have to put up with people bitching that they can't listen to any song, on demand, without compensation for the artists. That's really what it comes down to for most people here - if you can listen to your CD or your mp3 songs that you purchased or burned off your bought CD, would you have anything to complain about that arrangement? As long as sound quality isn't compromised, I say no... and that's what some of the DRM companies are trying to offer. Be protective of your rights but be aware of others' as well.
We bitch when a company says something we don't like. We bitch when the government tries to restrict our freedom of speech. Stop bitching.
...to a video that our computer club watched over and over again in high school because it was so dumb it was funny. The video was called "Don't Copy that Floppy." Man, I wish I had that video so I could make it to an AVI and distribute it on the internet.
Basically, guy and gal were playing this "really cool" computer game on a Mac, when gal says "man, I wish I had that game. That is so cool." Guy says "Oh, no problem. I'll make you a copy." Suddenly, this black "rapper" jumps out of the computer screen and does the "Don't Copy that Floppy" rap. It's the dumbest thing I have ever seen in my life, because it made absolutely no sense and the setup of the "storyline" is so manipulated it's pathetic.
Anyway, in trying to make some kind of point out of this, ever since the internet has given way to the bending of copyright protection issues, corporations have been constantly trying to put out propaganda all over to try and reign things in. It never works, but don't tell corporate America that! (Otherwise, our high school computer club would have stopped making copies of games a long time ago).
I can see it now...
Next eppisode:
1) Girl discovers Open Source Software
2) Girl becomes obsesed and is labeled a geek
3) No one likes girl because she is a geek
4) Dizzysoft sells girl coppy of Mouse Doors eXtra cool Pro.
5) Girl becomes popular again because she is using cool overpriced software.
The lesson: Don't use open source software, if you do no one will like you.
Proudley sponsored by Microsoft.
-- Any comments seen here are not mine, but a mixture of alchohol and lack of sleep.
Remember that Disney has a history of propaganda - In the movie "The New Spirit" (a film commisioned from Disney during WWII), Donald Duck reminds Americans that it is their patriotic duty to pay their taxes on time (search for "Donald Duck" - believe me, it's there).
If it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
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I say, when they point out that the actual infringements are the problem, we should agree with them.
I strongly disagree with this. Notions of intellectual property are fundamentally hostile to freedom of speech. Period. There are no two ways around it. You know the DeCSS and reverse engineering arguments. Tie them together. The law is wrong. Sooner or later, they will lead to a justification for totalitarian control of information and individuals, if Dubya and Osama don't do that to us first. Copyright law is obsolete in the light of new technology, and if we do not force our legal system to justly adapt, we shall all be criminalized. All of us.
I'm so sick of this whole argument. Look at history. Our knowledge threatens an established power base. Historically, that means that people are silenced in some manner. In all aspects of life and survival, threats are eliminated when possible.
The bottom line is that COPYRIGHT LAWS ARE OBSOLETE AND OUGHT NOT EXIST IN THEIR CURRENT FORM.
Non-commercial use must equal fair use, or we plunge into a new dark age. Oh wait, we already have our first scientist maryter....perhaps we are already there. A toast to Dimitry and the New Dark Age!
100% Disney Gayness.
Daddy would you like some sausage?
In the Lion king the lion puts his paws on the ground and kicks up some dust. The cloud of dust briefly forms the word "SEX".
kinda wierd and definetly worth the freeze framing.
Disney is full of perverts i guess.
Also, i dont care what anyone says, I did in fact hear the genie say "Take off their clothes" for myself in alladin.
And one more thing. When I was 17(ouch.. nine years ago) i worked for a small video store and we had a couple of copies of the little mermaid "penis edition".I don't give a rat's ass what disney said those pillars were, if they werent penises, why did they change the cover?
This reminds me a one of those Simpsons episodes where the school kids are all forced to watch some horrible propaganda video hosted by Troy McClure.
I'd like to see some starving musicians praying their music will get
downloaded sue Disney for this. All downloadable music isn't illegal after all.
Thanks for losing my target audience Disney, no more head-banging 6-year olds for me.
Now.. I'm not here to post a republican diatribe (I'm an independent), but rather to expell this notion that television has no effect/influence on children. The scary thing about Disney's propaganda cartoon is that it can have an influence on children. If television did not have an affect on the minds of those who watched it, then advertisements wouldn't exist!!
Rather than dismiss all of this, Disney should be called to the mat for such a shameless attempt to further their political agenda.
... for everyone on /. to start fighting this perversion of language. Downloading music is not stealing, it is copyright violation. And don't even get me started on "piracy". Words do matter, metaphors are the main way that non-geeks learn about this stuff. Everyone, start calling it copyright violation, when someone calls it stealing correct them, when a website calls it stealing email them. And remember, bad metaphors are double-plus-ungood.
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Why exactly is the copyright system wrong and why exactly do (or should) people have the right to freely copy other's copyrighted material?
Whether this cartoon is serious or a parody, there is a serious implication. The music industry as we know it could be destroyed along with our copyright system. That may or may not be a bad thing, but it is naive to believe that it is a good thing just because it allows you to get music for free. Ultimately there is a question of incentive and whatever system has to contain a way to cause people to want to create and distribute music and books.
I am very well versed in those psychological effects, I have studied them.
If you don't believe me, go and listen to it yourself. I brought my brother and mother into the room and said "listen" and they heard it, clear as day, without knowing what they were listening for.
As I said, go listen for it yourself and then reply.
If God gave us curiosity
Yes and this is not offtopic, mod up parent!
For refrence on Walt's anti-semetic, facist past, please see "Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince" out of print, but available used. (see link)
Also, you can hear a Real Audio movie excerpting the book. -Mike
Somehow, we've not only got to create these things, but we have to make Joe Sixpack understand that what we're saying is not hyperbole. Sadly, if we don't act quick, the media providers will do it for us -- only it will be too late.
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Disney said: we're going to use the music anyways, since you (i.e. Stravisky) are Russian and US does not abide by Russian copyrights.
For a reference look here (this is after a quick google search).
Now, what was it Disney said about "protecting the artists"????
...richie - It is a good day to code.
You have to know spanish to get this one (or at least the bad words)
:)
Say the word "Bronca" a bunch of times and you'll start to smile
BTW, it was no "verbal illusion" in aladdin, the fuckers at disney just get kicks out of confusing little kids. Kinda like the big hairy cock in Fight Club
I peripherally know a guy who has got involved in Amway. He was always a little weird, and into these get-rich-quick schemes, but now it's like he's been brainwashed by a cult or something
Well, I guess there are others out there that share my pain
I had a really good friend i worked with, he was kind of trekkie, definetly a dork, but a friend nonetheless.
He got invloved in amway and now he sounds like a goddamn commercial for them.
I dont give a shit if they went online and call it quixtar now. Its still amway and its still a cult leading millions of innocent jerry springer watching kansas trailer park dwellers to hell.
What the hell do they mean "I have to spend money on soap anyways so why not make money on it?"
Fight the real enemy!!!!!!!!
Um, here is a clue, Disney: if you are going to use a movie in your propaganda, watch it first. It helps.
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I can just see that Exxon boardroom now...
"With our new Gushermatic2000 wells and MegaPipeline; we'll drain the ANWR in no time. We'll cut down all the trees too and piss on them for the hell of it. Muhahahahahah!!
Those meddling Planeteers will never stop us!!
I'm getting aroused just thinking about. Quick! Somebody find me a baby seal......"
I think the cartoon's creator's are pissed that you can find episodes of He-Man and StrawberryShortcake on gnutella/dc/fasttrack but no Proud Family. I guess no-one really cares. Hopefully, this episode will make the cut and all of this will blow over and the creators of Proud Family will no longer feel jilted.
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In practice, many of the points above are already implemented. I can find pretty much any song I want on gnutella/morpheus networks. All the songs I find are pretty low-quality (enough for preview, though). If the kazaa client removed all the annoying ads, and added a plain old button next to each download, saying "buy this song for $xx.yy", I would click that button and buy the songs I like. Doesn't look like that button is coming any time soon, though.When I buy a piece of music, I get the rights to listen to it on any set of devices I choose, and even (gasp !) whistle it while I walk down the street. I should also get the rights to give this music to my friend for his birthday.
I am only willing to pay for songs I want to hear. This means that I will not buy a bundle of 12 music tracks for $25 if I only intend to listen to one of them.
Similarly, I am not going to pay for a random song I have never heard, only to find out it sucks. I will only buy a song if I am able to preview it. I don't care about the quality of the preview.
I do, however, care about the quality of the actual product. If I am unable to buy the song in the bitrate of my choice, I am not moving.
I am fat and lazy. I would pay for the privilege of being able to download the song without moving from my chair.
I am also quite spiteful. I remember at all times that I am spending my hard-earned cash on pure entertainment - so my shopping experience better be pleasant. This means no popups, no ad banners, no spam. Just the song, please.
And yes, I am cheap. I will not pay $50 for a single song, no mater how much Sir Paid a-Lot the rapper wants me to.
Meanwhile, I stopped buying CDs, since the last 5 CDs that I bought only contained a single song that was worth listening to; and I had to spend some precious CPU cycles encoding it to MP3 so that I could listen to it. The hassle is not worth it.
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I found a more disturbing hidden message in the description of this cartoon: The cops showing up at the kid's house seemed to be used to make the watching children afraid of the authority they might anger if they use these services: REMEMBER KIDS, NEVER PISS OFF THE GESTAPO!
Can someone fix the link for this article? I clicked it and didn't find anything whatsoever about disney - just a blank article with a sidebar. I searched around on the site for a while but failed to find ay article with a reference to "disney".
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
jik-
Seriously, that was crazy stuff.
-Elendale
IANAT (I Am Not A Troll)
'I'm shocked... shocked to learn that gambling is going on in this establishment!", that is what the Inspector said in the movie "Casablanca" and the line immediately following that line was "Your winnings, sir...", as the casino worker handed the Inspector a wad of money. My point? You are naive in the extreme to think that this is blatant propaganda: WOW, you are shocked!! You are assaulted with blatant propaganda nearly every minute ot the day, and you call this recent installment of the usual propaganda shocking... Do I denounce this crap by Disney? Yes. Is your post inane? Certainly. Your perspective is narrow. You have to be hit over the head before you notice you are being hoodwinked.
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Disney has a history of propaganda. In the past, it's been war propaganda in the case of World War II. Now, in the growing war between large corporations and the consumers just out for a fair deal, Disney has chosen a side. How can they justify it? Here's how old Walt justified two anti-Nazi films:
As for "DER FUEHRER'S FACE," we feel that a public character such as Donald Duck, writhing rebelliously in the clutches of the Nazis, will bring the situation home to every man, woman and child in this country as plainly as though they were witnessing the discomfiture of their own grandmothers. For Donald belongs to them like a member of their own family, and we guarantee they will end up hating Hitler twenty times more than if they had gone through the same ordeal with some curlyhaired hero who is, after all, merely another movie actor
Replace Hitler with copyright law breakers. Wouldn't it be nice if they stuck to REAL ISSUES?
So is
ez-jackster.net
ez-jackster.org
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ez-jackster.net
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ez-jackster.com
just if some one wants to have fun with them
ezjackster.com(is taken by disney how funny)
Since you people vehemently defend the copying of music, do you also vehemently defend the use of drugs? Simply because there was a propoganda campaign against it?
My point is not that drugs are bad; I would be hypocritical to claim such (well then again, I don't consider marijuana a drug). My point is, when does propoganda become bad? Is there such a thing as "good propoganda?"
I dont think this counts (i cant remember which cartoons were done by who) but ANYWAYS, Ive heard Daffy Duck's color was black so that black people would be portrayed in a negative way. Ever seen a black duck?
A poster on OSDN has drawn a link between Disney and the extension of copyright and the fact that the copyright on Mickey was about to expire.
While this may be correct, it has been alleged deep within Operation Clambake that another major factor was that the late Scientologist, Senator Sonny Bono, played a leading role in introducing the legislation that extended copyright to 99 years, with the aim of protecting their revenue stream^W^W mysterious, Constitutionally-Protected Religious Sekrits.
Ignore the influence of this bizarre, delusional, fanatical organisation at your peril.
(Thank God/Bob for the [x] Post Anonymously button.)
Stealing is defined by the laws of the states and nation.
By our laws, things such as songs can be the property of the creator. As his property the law gives him the right to control its copying and distribution. Interfering with that right is defined by the law as stealing.
Plain and simple. Don't try to rationalize it.
We can debate whether this law is right or wrong, but we have to understand that this is a legal question. Personally, I agree that people should be able to control the copying and distribution of their creative works.
you are all gullible fucks.
I mean Divx, the encoding standard used by most Video pirates out there :) (think MP3 of video)
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and media manipulation since i watched CNN last night... truly shocking.
Not content with pushing racial stereotypes and 'christian' values they're even trying to protect their content, how nice... NOW WHERES MY KAZAA, ah right here...
We clearly all hate the record companies and their abuse of artists. But in all seriousness, if the situation is really that bad and artists aren't making enough money why are they continuing to sign with the record companies? The truth, although most open source people would be afraid to admit it is that the record companies are providing very effective marketing to artists.. albeit at an extremely higher price.
You probably think that we shouldn't support the record industry at this time and I would be forced to agree with you. It is moronic to pay $18 for a cd! Paying these high costs especially at a time when they want to eliminate fair use, only reinforces their current business model.
But, what I can't stand are people that do think that it is OK to download mp3's and listen to them without reimbursing the artist at all. What we need to convince the record companies to do is to downsize significantly (firing people is always hard to do) and to change their business model in regards to the internet, and of course to reduce their prices and to stop eliminating fair use.
I would argue that the internet is of course changing everything. But I still think that the artists deserve to charge whatever they want to sell their music at. I think that the copying of any copyrighted work without authorization is completely wrong. Do you feel that we should tell all the children that there is NOTHING wrong with downloading music online without reimbursing the artist?
Anyone that believes that they should have a divine right to download music and listen to it at their leisure without reimbursing the artist, clearly does not understand capitalism and what it is to be American.
If I decide to compose a trumpet virtuoso over the next year I deserve all of the proceeds from the sale of my music (aside from those that I have exchanged to the record companies in exchange for promotion on radio stations, etc.) If someone decides to hand out copies of my music for free or if file-sharing networks spring up to exchange copies of my music there is something wrong with this. After all why would I continue to compose excellent music if it was just going to be looted and stolen from me?
DJ Keoki made a song called.. ready for it..
"Pass it on"
not a super beat, but interesting to see apparent approval of the direction music appreciation is heading.
...but you have to pay RedEraser $300 per Sharpening Incident.
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Your mouth is like Columbus Day.
Same with the dust that was in the movie... The Lion King? (I don't remember which movie it was, could have been Alladin was well) that spelled out "SEX" if you played it in slow motion
Actually it spells SFX - the name of the company that did many of the digital effects in The Lion King. This has been confirmed by them - don't have a url to hand but IMDB is probably a good start.
--- Hot Shot City is particularly good.
I think there was a Simpsons episode where Homer hooks up cable TV and Lisa reminds him of the fifth commandment (thou shalt not steal) - completely missing the point that Homer's use of the TV does not deprive anyone else of it and so is difficult to describe as 'stealing'. I haven't seen this episode, so I could just be making it up.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
Anyone think that it might be the execs jackin all the money? Obviously this shiz happens in the real world, but in the wonderful world of propoganda, it's always 'their' fault.
This post close captioned for the thinking impared.
Even if it isn't good teenagers take off their clothes..
Scat, good tiger?
WTF?
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Euuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuw. Brown chocolate ain't tasty!
1. Maybe the Corporate Mongrels at Disney believe subtle brainwashing of 5 year olds will prevent future diminishings of their millions. I am sorry BUT 5 year olds dont buy much music. The Teen -20's crowd buys the most - the same crowd that use file swapping the most.
2. While there will always be a way around copyrights, the corporate world will have the ability to make it inconvenient enough to be a pain in the neck for the massive technically illiterate crowds. Look at napster - once the technology got easy enough for the masses, it was destroyed. Yes you can crack DVD encryption, but only techno nerds can figure out how or figure out where to look.
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MS: ALL YOUR
...is still available. C'mon - someone register and have fun with posting links to all the "Di$ney sux rox througa straw big-time" sites.
All of the above. ;-)
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
Disney's "Digital Reefer Madness", with music composed and written by Lars Ullrich...
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
Actually little messages like this are probably a GOOD thing. Make the public feel GUILTY about stealing software, music, and video and maybe cowel us into doing the RIGHT thing, buy our own copies! If we all respected the copyrights of others maybe the idea of the government putting hardware and software into our computers to FORCE us into doing the right thing would go away. Also things like MACROVISION and COPY PROTECTED CD's would never have surfaced if people were honest. It's because of greed on the consumers part that our rights to fair use have been take away. Mind you I'm not saying that the media companies greed hasn't played a part in this. (Such as wanting to own a piece of the MP3 market, or rather to CREATE a PAYING market for MP3's instead of letting people create their own via fair use of CD's they already own).
The funny thing is, they don't even *explain* their position. They just take it for granted that labels not making money and record stores going out of business is a BAD thing. In that same vein where is all the buggy-whip propaganda? "Oh no kids! All the bugy-whip stores will go out of business! Please don't drive cars! It's communism!"
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
A couple was arrested for using marijuana, (Drugs are bad, Mmmkay) and the police gave them a chance. They need to convince kids to not use drugs.
The girl went to the blackboard and draw to circles, one 10" sized and other 50" sized. And said, "This big circle is you brain before the drugs, and this small circle is your brain after the drugs. Don't do drugs"
The boy then went to the blackboard and using the same two circles said, "This smal circle is you ass before jail, and this big circle is your ass after being in jail
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Where is the funny?
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I know life isn't fair, but why can't it ever be un-fair in MY favor!?
They're an elite band of commandos, protecting Truth, Freedom, and the American Way! They are...
The Super Secret Security Corps of America!
Yes, the SSSCA fight hard to protect children everywhere from the evil forces of the Fiendish Terror Protectorate and the Insidious Razor-Claws, led by a dark and evil overlord known only as the "New Teller". These foes try to corrupt our nation's youth, brainwashing them into stealing Intellectual Property from good, law-abiding corporations everywhere!
Join us, every Saturday morning at 9:00am, as we cheer them on: "Go, go, SSSCA!"
(Note: "Go, go, SSSCA" is a copyrighted phrase owned by the Disney Channel. A fee of 10 cents will be assessed for each utterance of the phrase. The Super Secret Security Corps of America(tm) cannot be timeshifted in any form. The use of a recording device in conjunction with this performance constitutes theft under United States Criminal Law.)
someone already mentioned capatain planet here--a disturbing experiment by Ted Turner to propoganda'ize the youngsters of america.
Do you remember the episode where they went to the alien planet where everyone wanted to have more than 2 kids because their religion or culture said it was okay. But by the end the guy realized that having more than 2 kids was like killing everyone on the planet, and Captian Planet saved the day by helping the fella to determine to have a small family and denounce his crazy religion (slight exageration there)
The proud family is Disney's attempt to meet the Jr. WB network market (young african american children) it appears somewhat 'stereotypical' to me.....I haven't noticed any of their white oriented programs attacking file sharing. It's the evil racist conspiracy of Eisner and the mouse (who really is a demonic possesed puppet pulling the strings of eisner and the like)
Where is Jesse Jackson when you need him?
With the way every content company is a big megacorp that makes TV shows, movies, and music, it's very possible that they could completely inundate kids with messages that file sharing is the same as stealing, and stealing is bad. If it happens often enough, kids will absorb the message without thinking about it. The only reason it's so scary that all the media companies will all start pushing the same message is because they all have such a huge vested interest in pushing this particular message.
Mr. Spey
Cover your butt. Bernard is watching.
Disney should do something on the evils of 'opensource' and the GPL Empire next
*SIGH*
for a company that seems obsessed with hidding erected penises, dildos, and whispered messages like "hey kids, take off your clothes", this seems to be an odd departure.
was the 'ez jackster' logo shaped like a strap-on?
That is scary. Next thing you know they'll put out blasphemous movies and start paying doctors to kill babies! I think we should boycott Disney.
Fade the scene to a room next door where a line of customers are bent over...
Unix is user friendly, it's just selective about who its friends are.
I remember when I was a kid, I saw a Disney cartoon which was like this one, only it was encouraging people to invest money in corporates, and how wonderful corporates/investment is.
Does anybody else remember it?
"... Will Penny listen to her parents?"
Wow! A Disney production where the parents aren't dead? Groundbreaking!
Thanks for the link(s)! Can't believe I missed that set of strips. Boondocks is the best cartoon that is printed by our local paper. I guess I'll have to start reading it daily (online of course - dead tree news is just a Sunday thing).
To understand what's right and wrong, the lawyers work in shifts ...
Unless linux comes up with a viable version of
DRM that allows legitimate fair use( making compilation cd's from music you previously purchase is, file swapping isn't) eventually the
powers that be will steamroll a solution which
will have nothing to like about it.
Should file swapping be sacrificed for more legitimate types of fair use?
Absolutely.
I don't won't the computer world remade in the
RIAA 's image just so people can steal music.
Any train of thought that thinks different is
just monumental rationalization.
I saw this play called "Bitch Stole My Ruby Red Slippers" which was a parody of the Pop Music Industry based on the "Wizard of Oz". In it, "The Wizard" was the head of the record company. Coincidence?
Not to be picky but the gauls had a celtic culture related to the better known celts in the british isles.
The romans had a tendancy of calling all non-romans barbarians. It's a bit too subjective a term.
I just happened to be looking for something to watch, and believe it or not out of all 200+ channels this was all I could find. It was quite funny, maybe someone will post a divx of it on gnutella? ;-)
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"WE" also think you are a complete moron.
This is old hash. Disney drew from the same inspiration that Nadia drew from : 2000 Leagues, Jules Verne aesthetics and plain old adventurism. Artistically Disney did a far superior job of it too, AND unless you're a kid, or easily entertained by toons (like me) Nadia's certainly no better than Atlantis, indeed the story line may be better developed but we're not talking Mononoke here.... Just get off it