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An anonymous reader sends in Monitor Man: "Monitor Man is the latest idea in Japan for advertising at sports matches. Seems to be quite popular with the kids, anyway... siliconshock writes "Here is a torrent link to a 10 year old educational video from the SPA (Software Publisher's Association), which tells kids not to 'copy that floppy'. The video contains oldskool screen shots from "Oregon Trail", "Tetris" and other games of the era. The best part is the rapper who is singing and dancing to a great anti-piracy song. Here is more info. The file is 16mb, and in case you were worried about this file being copyrighted.... 'The Software Publishers Association gives you permission to copy this video for the non-profit purpose of promoting the ethical and legal use of software.'" And [vmlinuz] writes "After recently hearing a few different versions of RMS's legendary Free Software Song, I decided to do my own version, considerably heavier. You can get it in MP3 and OGG format."
Linking an MP3/OGG File on /. beats everything up till now ;-)
Can someone please set up a mirror of the floppy video? I'd love to see it :)
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
it reminds me the excellent "Don't date robots" propaganda movie parody in the Futurama ep about (Kid)Nappster lol
You can find the WMV download link here. The music video is quite long and amusing. :)
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
First thing to come to mind when I watched that video ...
OH DEAR GOD!!
I believe I have been scarred for life musically.
I saw the "Don't Copy That Floppy" a few weeks ago and I have to say that my favorite part about it is that it says none-too-subtly that if you copy software illegally it will lead to the downfall of all technology and advancement of man kind. I mean, that's just ridiculous. I can understand people who think software piracy is a crime as bad as murder or whatever (even though I'm pretty firmly of the opposite opinion) but come on...
I recommend you go and GET bittorrent. On Windows, I recommend the Burst! client.
I just know that guy's first name is iMac...
Don't forget to also get the 1997 video "It Could Have Been So Easy"!
naive or naïve ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-v, nä-) also naif or naïf (n-f, nä)
...
adj.
1. Lacking worldly experience and understanding, especially:
1. Simple and guileless; artless: a child with a naive charm.
2. Unsuspecting or credulous: "Students, often bright but naive, betand losesubstantial sums of money on sporting events" (Tim Layden).
2. Showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment: "this extravagance of metaphors, with its naive bombast" (H.L. Mencken).
4. naive: noun, descriptive; historical usage, 21st century. Anyone who posts a link to an mp3 file on slashdot.org
I am a viral sig. Please copy me and help me spread. Thank you
Funny how at that time, no computer could really play any video (not enough horsepower OR space), and yet they would have us believe this rig could do that.
Oh yea, and I could tell rather quickly it was made by AOL. Now i just wanna copy all my floppies to spite the bastard!
This goes on for 10 minutes?!?!?!
I stopped it at about 3... I got the point... I will never copy that floppy again.
Thank god for CD burners.
After recently hearing a few different versions of RMS's legendary Free Software Song, I decided to do my own version, considerably heavier
...
So what did you do ? a Microsoft Windows song ? that'd be heavy
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
I remember seeing that in the sixth grade.
Hours later, in Gym, I met up with a friend of mine and caught a hold of the full Doom.
What caught my eye this time around was a screen shot that said, "Never Winter Nights." I sure hope that was a CGA/VGA version and not the version that eventually became the modern game, DNF has quite the ways to go before it's really really late by comparison.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Nice work Jono, giving the Free software song the metal treatment. Fantastic solo, too...but...what's going on with the drum sounds? Did you use a couple of old tupperware tubs or something? :)
-- And when Justice is gone, there is always... Force. --Laurie Anderson, "Oh Superman"
It amazes me that companies are allowed this unfettered access to our children in school to peddle such messages they desire. Is there a modern equivalent to this film. I would love to see it. "Don't rip to XVid" doesn't quite have the same ring to it....
----
Now if only SCO had made a video like this...
EGG, the Electronic Gamers Guild
'... I decided to do my own version, considerably heavier. You can get it in MP3 and OGG format."'
... soo where's the license to download it? Maybe a EULA somewhere??
/. to the RIAA now do we?
Don't want you to be reporting all of
That version of Neverwinter Nights was an online game that was a feature of AOL. AOL actually had several, and some were pretty good, but they shut them all down a long while back.
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
I like the interview sessions wit the programmers:
"Lots of great things come in the boxes: manuals, upgrades, warrantees."
"You can just call us up and ask for help on your software and we can give you a hand."
I'd like to see this now. Call Microsoft ans ask to speak to the guy who coded the AI for Clippy...
What's my torrent doing on the front page of Slashdot?
I did get to see a late night Slashdot effect in action... Went from being connected to 20 seeds to about 110 leechers...
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
>> 'The Software Publishers Association gives you permission to copy this video for the non-profit
>> purpose of promoting the ethical and legal use of software
What if we just download it to laugh at it?
I watched it 10 years ago when it was on a random cover cd - all my friends were watching it! They said it was cool!
But I still can't get that damn thing out of my head - it's like the ring! It's always there, haunting me!
Not because we want it, but just because we're taking it!
Disrespectin' the folks who are making it!
I've got to stop the rampant piracy around here! I pledge to never copy another floppy.
Oh, CD's and DVD's too? Ahhhh... come back in a few years. I've got to... finish backing up... yeah, thats it. Backing up my software.
Twelve fingers or one, its how you play. ~Gattaca (Vincent)
It portrays a musical genius unseen since Michael Jackson lit himself a fire to protest pepsi advertisements.
Why these guys remind me V if I remove the moniter on their head?
Hum.... I need to sleep
I really like that orange jumpsuit. He even has orange chucks to match. Maybe I could join up and get one of those jumpsuits, ans a helmet and advertise in arcades, classrooms, and cafetirias.
Too busy staying alive... ~ R.A.
oh. Thank god.
Atleast we haven't heard any drama from the 3drealms front, so it still doesn't beat Battlecruiser3000AD for the most fucked up production time...
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
That must be one impressive video codec to fit the rapper and the interviews on that 1.44MB floppy! Auto-run too!
And the whole thing runs on the Motorola 68020 of the school's Macintosh LC!
...you could store that long of a video on a single floppy disk!
Natural-Selection Be
I am thinking, if you had a monitor attached to your head, wouldn't it be possible to use it to display stuff, like say, thought-bubbles?
or for the mute/deaf amongst us. I mean, who want's to learn to sign anyway.
Then, if it really can seriously display *thoughts*, i.e. grab things out of your head unaware - then how many % of the time would the said monitors display sex-related material when guys are wearing them?
Obviously there are video-conferencing application here too, and possbily making neck-chiropractors the next fastest-growing job-market in the world, but i will skip those for now.
My life in the land of the rising sun.
Anyone else notice that Pixar is mentioned in the credits?
Or
the fact that I remember it from when it was *new*?
Jeebus I feel old.
The anti-piracy clip that contains images from Tetris, whose inventor, Alexey Pajitnov never saw a penny from the Tetris sales. The software publishers took advantage of the fact that he, being a citizen of the Soviet Russia wasn't protected by the copyright law.
I think I know the soultion... You see, if files were on an FTP site, you could actually limit the number of simultaneous connections quite easilly. It can be done with HTTP, but not easilly, and not all that well.
/.ing, put your files on FTP, even if your files happen to be HTML doucments, images, Oggs, etc.
e so>e softwaresong.ogg
e softwaresong.ogg
The fact that every major distributor of files uses FTP exclusively should say something. You don't see Linux/BSD isos on HTTP very often, now do you?
Take my advice, if you want to survive a
Either that, or hack together a good system for limited the number of simultaneous users on your HTTP site. A good system could imitate spamcop.net... If you are overloaded, send them to a basic page that says so, and insert a meta-refresh tag... The more users, the longer the time for that meta-refresh should be.
You might have to wait a while to log-in to the FTP server, but you wouldn't have out-of-control bandwidth costs, you wouldn't swamp your line, and your server wouldn't be smoldering right now:
temp$ wget http://www.jonobacon.org/music/solo/jonobacon-fre
--02:00:40-- http://www.jonobacon.org/music/solo/jonobacon-fre
=> `jonobacon-freesoftwaresong.ogg'
Connecting to www.jonobacon.org:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers.
Retrying.
--02:08:40-- http://www.jonobacon.org/music/solo/jonobacon-fre
(try: 2) => `jonobacon-freesoftwaresong.ogg'
Connecting to www.jonobacon.org:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
Also, I dont think she will be an open source programmer. ;)
Jesus loves you, enough to run linux.
Speaking at Defcon 12 - Credit Card Networks Revisted: Pen
are you some kind of robosexual?
I always wondered what happened to MC Hammer after his downfall.
Oh, sorry, we had the 'irony' conversation the other day. mumble mumble...
.02
cLive ;-)
-- Trinity in high heels carrying a whip: The donimatrix - there is no spoonerism
I saw this video several years ago in one of my computer lit classes. It was funny then, and it's still funny now. I'm surprised someone hasn't sued Ms. Rosenthal for saying that I'm allowed to have a backup copy of my software. Uh-oh, I think I hear the DMCA knocking on my door. I've said too... AIEEEE
There also the Tompox mix.
BTW, here are other contributions to RMS art by Tompox
Trolling using another account since 2005.
(Not in US)While I was a kid my grade school teacher showed us a video on sex education. It uses very indirect approach to describe the act of sex - pollunation of flowers. We didn't know what the heck it was showing or ask much question about it.
Years later I was shocked to hear that they still use the very same tape to teach sex education for my kids. Needless to say, the whole class was laughing their ass off, and everybody raising so many questions that embarrassing the teacher very much, like - the role of bee in real life sex, the way of using condem on a flower, and the actual sexual position if we want to do it in 'flower way', etc.
Man, don't fool nowaday kids.
He's now employed by Microsoft. AFAIK they hired him just because he wrote Tetris (and passed their 5 hour interview of course :0). I bet he's a rich man now, albeit not from the royalties.
I saw it yesterday, and it really is great. I especially like the politically correct cast.
You say "I'll just make a copy, for me and a FRIEND!"
And he'll make one and she'll make one and where will it END?
One leads to another, then more then more
And noone buys any games from the store!
Then noone gets paid and they CAN'T make more
The posse breaks up and that CLOSES the door
So don't COPY! Don't COPY THAT FLOPPY!.
that 'don't copy that floppy' knocked my socks off. as an avid hip-hop fan i marvelled at their verbal acuity and sound knowledge of copyright law. i wondered how someone could be so versed in both legalities and dope rhymes.
then i saw in the credits that additional lyrics were provided by that virtuoso of beats, ms. ilene rosenthal, who you may recognize from the video as also playing 'SPA attorney'.
kudos to you ms. rosenthal. you are truly a renaissance woman. and i look forward to hearing what crazy shit hillary rosen puts together.
go get it
They don't give you permission to "copy this video for the despicable purpose of mocking the most venerable SPA organization."
I like RMS and have a lot of respect for him but what makes me laugh is if you go to the free software song web page on the GNU site and scroll down a bit. There's a link called "other humour",
OTHER ????!!!!!
No but, yeah but, no but...
and in case you were worried about this file being copyrighted.... 'The Software Publishers Association gives you permission to copy this video for the non-profit purpose of promoting the ethical and legal use of software.'
Ah that's good. So I may use it to show to my friends and tell them why this really isn't how it should be, because ethically, software should be free :-)
The Free Software songs music "Sadi Mona" is 7 beats per measure, what crazy barsted would use that. They should have got Dave Grohl to write it!
Don't Copy That Flopy
/mnt/floppy ~/myWarez
cp
There is also the Fenster song, very cool, at http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html.
Don't copy that floppy or....
"Welcome to the end of the computer age!"
30% off web hosting. Coupon code "SLASHDOT".
Wanted to find out what happened to our poor AOL developers and if they were currently on the dole, I did a quick seach on google. Unfortunatly not much can be found out on them.
However did find a 107Meg version and a more detailed explaination of the video at Ninja Culter the google cache is here.
Don't you feel sorry for the shmoe wearing this? He must feel about as good as a Mickey Mouse actor at Disneyland getting constantly kicked in the balls by hyper-active, sugar-crazed ten year-olds. It's like carrying a sign on your head that says to kids "my nuts are your punching bag and there's nothing I can do about it, because your parents can get me fired."
Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper to just staticly mount some flat-panels and have them centrally controlled via UHF or something? Oh wait, that's a TV. All this extra technology to replace something that could be done a lot cheaper and easier by using a little planning.
Also, is labor in Asia so cheap now that it costs less to hire someone to stand there than a 1" OD x 6 ft pole of aluminum? Might as well hire some people to fan you w/ palm-frawns too.
That's my 3.14159... cents
The biggest trick the devil pulled was letting lawyers become politicians so they can write the laws.
the site with the mp3 appears to be. anybody has a mirror?
It's the only thing besides the Google cache that's free and can survive the Slashdot effect...
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
These are TERRIBLE songs! No offense buddy. OK... I admit it. I could only get halfway through the Tompox mix. I couldn't put myself through the torture of trying out the others.
Wow, we managed to slashdot a bittorrent-link
This isn't a Japan-only thing. I saw a Monitor Man (actually, a woman) in New York city about 6 weeks ago on vacation. She was in Times Square near where the ticket center (name?) is.
Upon seeing her, I joked with my wife, "She was probably tired of men staring at her breasts all the time."
[PowerPoint] is a tool for capitalist presentation
Jesus holy christ, there's enough copies of Tetris, in SOME form or another, that if I DELETED THE SOURCE CODE of one a game an hour until Christmas, I'd only be halfway done.
Besides, who actually LIKED those other games Alexey threw together in those MS Software packs? I think in this case, copying would have encouraged him to STOP with that junk.
Anyone had guys dressed a bit like that walking around in their city? I live in Montreal, and a month before the Xbox was released, you had tons of guys dressed a bit like that, with an LCD on their head, an Xbox + batteries in their backpack, walking around downtown and showing in game demos of a few games.. It was pretty cool, too bad I didn't have my camera with me...
1: go to google ...
2: write: french military victories
3: press: I feel lucky
4:
5: zzzZzzz
(yes this can be compared with sex)
Apple sues Monitor Man for patent infringement, citing prior art.
Melinda Gates was the project manager for Microsoft Bob, which became Clippy. Doubt she did much coding on, but she did do a CS degree so hopefully she can code a little.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
But in another life Ilene Rosenthal was a piano teacher, which kind of means she's probably a more than handy musician. Dunno which posse she's down with, though :)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
I haven't seen quickies for ages. Bring back the quickies.
"I just can't sit while people are saying nonsense in a meeting without saying it's nonsense" J Watson, Sci Am 288:(4)51
of dictionary.com's Terms of Use... unless, of course, you obtained written permission from them.
It states:
3.2 You will not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit, any of the content, in whole or in part, found on the Site. You will download copyrighted content solely for your personal use, but will make no other use of the content without the express written permission of Lexico and the copyright owner. You will not make any changes to any content that you are permitted to download under this Agreement, and in particular you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any downloaded content
they rule ^_^
Hey, congratulations. You must be the one person who managed to download this before the server died a horrible death :-)
Perhaps you could post a mirror?
Yeah, the free AOL games were actually pretty good. The Simutronics games are still online and playable at simutronics.com (such as DragonRealms, Gemstone 3, Modus Operandi, etc.). However, they're no longer free.
The speed of time is one second per second.
I find it ironic that most of the floppies I copied were on used AOL Diskettes. It would be real kind of them to start sending CD-RWs in the post, but I won't complain about the Free DVD cases...
In case Slashdot is not aware, the afforementioned SPA video is STILL sold for 20 dollars a pop and, as far as I know, all copyrights on it are still held by the orginization that replaced the SPA (whatever its called, no one cares). In other words, Slashdot is directly linking (via bittorrent, which I suppose you could argue is not a DIRECT LINK) to copyrighted materials. Since when has Slashdot supported theft of intellectual property?
I did some quick research and found out some information on the people featured in the video here in my own review. This video was so bad that almost everyone associated with it has gone on to mediocrity.
Sooo this explains what happened to the video game scene on the macintosh! They copied that floppy and now there are no more games.
"There are tons of games for the Mac...War Craft 3.... photoshop"
...unfortunately no one can be told what The Mat^H^H^HGoatse is...they must experience it for themselves...
who started singing that in my head??
It had a nice beat.
I remember seeing a video in a computer class way back in high school about these kids that wrote a video game and, in the process of getting it published, gave a copy to a friend. That friend made copies for everyone else and, next thing you know, it was everywhere and never got published.
Has anybody else seen this video, or know where it can be found on the net? I would love to see it again. I remember it being pretty lame, but as long as we're being nostalgic about piracy...
Ahh... the memories of the high school computer lab. Those were the days!
Check out the entire program!
A sample question from the student worksheets:
4. Jacob's father has been out of work for a long time. "If only my dad had some word processing software," Jacob tells Shawna, "he could make good money helping people write their resumes. But, we can't afford the software." The next day Shawna drops off a copy of her own word processing software. Shawna says, "I hope this helps your dad." What would you say?
"Thanks for this copy of OpenOffice.org, which is totally free and legal for me to own! Without the help of thousands of Open Source developers the world over I would not now have the opurtunity to make myself a little cash and dig myself out of this pit of dispair!"
Do I get a Gold Star, Mr. BSA sir?
Hi all,
I am the guy who wrote the Free Software Song metal version. I have the files on my home server. If you have a server you can put the files on, mail me at jono@jonobacon.org and I will mail you them.
Cheers,
Jono
--- Jono Bacon - http://www.jonobacon.org/ Writer - Web Developer - Musician
This video actually illustrates some interesting points about why game copying is increasing in popularity, rather than decreasing. Listen to the BSA lawyer talking about your rights as a gamer; listen to what the game company personnel say you get when you buy a game. These include: A) You can make a backup copy; B) You get (implicitly free) technical support; C) You get real manuals; D) You *own* a copy of the software; E) You get warranties. So that was ten years ago. What's the current state of gaming? I'm not a gamer. I'm 31, and I wasted my twitch years playing with Solaris. I've gotten into some games over the last year or two, but mostly Warcraft and Starcraft, and some console games. I was shocked, appalled, and INSULTED when I found out that I had to put the CD in the drive to play the game. I put the CDs away in a safe place and never access them again unless something bad happens -- I don't want to handle a CD every time I play a game. Not to mention I can't even make a backup CD and use it due to all the copy-protection cruft on game CDs. Thankfully, about 30 minutes of work got me to gamecopyworld.com and from there I managed to get Starcraft working w/o a CD. But the problem is that once Blizzard has forced me to resort to piracy (or the appearance thereof) to use a game I purchased in what I consider to be a legitimate way, the difference between legitimate ownership and piracy is significantly reduced. Tech support? Come on. Some companies have good technical support, but I've honestly not found that many of them. Trying to get help from Technical Support is likely to be expensive (if only because you're dialing long-distance) and the chances, these days, of getting someone who actually knows something in the first-tier organization is ... minimal. You get vastly better support on-line from a community of players.
Manuals? I'm reminded of the Dilbert strip that has the PHB say "well, we're going to release the product without a manual and count on someone coming out with a 'For Dummies' book for it." THAT'S A JOKE. But it's also reality. I ended up buying the Starcraft battle chest (or whatever it was called) so I got the SC and SC:BW strategy guides from the 3rd-party publisher with it, which is good, because without them, the game is severly lacking. I mean, come on -- the manual doesn't cover things like rate of fire and *RANGE*. How can you have a manual for a game that involved ranged attacks that doesn't explicitly address range? And don't get me started on WCIII -- where the 'Blizzard approved official strategy guide' ALSO doesn't cover things like range and attack speeds.
Owning a copy of the software? Ha. When was the last time you heard an industry rep use that language?
And don't get me started on "This game may melt down your computer and if it does, well ... tough. There's no warranty on it" warranties.
I pay for Red vs. Blue. I pay for Snood. I paid for UltraEdit. I pay for software whose producers treat me decently and fairly and see me as someone to court and respect and have a relationship with, rather than as their enemy, as someone they must fear and restrict and limit because otherwise he'll cheat.
Want me to respect you? Start by respecting me.
Anyone else old enough to remember Al Franken and the "One Man Mobile Satellite Uplink?" Hopefully the Monitor Man is a bit easier on the neck!
http://www.journalism.ubc.ca/thunderbird/frontpage /franken.html
By the taping of my glasses, something geeky this way passes
Hi all,
Here is a mirror of the Free Software Song:
OGG
No space for the MP3!!
Jono
--- Jono Bacon - http://www.jonobacon.org/ Writer - Web Developer - Musician
But I'm working on it. Somewhere between steps 3 and 4 are "finish full-length CD," "sell CDs" and "go on tour". I'll probably incorporate Bitpass into the whole equation soon, when bandwidth costs get out of control.
But "An Association Named Sue" written by Slashdot user Yo Grark and myself, about free music, will always be free as in beer. Check out the lyrics:
The RIAA says I'm a theif, because I download mp3s; I got nothing but this hard drive space to lose,
But I know it's a fact that if I had much more, they'd take it away from me in court, saying that their actions protected their revenues.
Well they must think it's quite a joke, and it gets a lot of laughs from lots of folk; it seems I've downloaded my whole life through.
Hell, I never even thought of it as wrong, cause I'd buy more CDs after hearing more songs; I tell ya, it had nothing to do with their revenues.
Well, I grew up quick and I grew up l33t, my hacking got hard and my wits got street, I'd roam backdoor to backdoor to hide my name.
But I made a vow to the moon and stars that I'd search the databases and systems far and kill that connection before it got too lame.
Well, just finished with a shell I had since July, I kissed my DSL connection goodbye and I battled a round of security with big blue.
Went to a cybercafe in case they pulled the lud's, and there at a table, spewing FUD, sat the dirty dog that "protected" the RIAA's revenues.
Well, I knew that snake was a lawyer so bad from the way he jumped up and down so mad when he saw that KaZaa Lite was installed on every PC in the room.
He was big and bent and gray and old, and I looked at him and my blood ran cold and I said: "If you're defending your bands, how come all the money goes to you?"
I was so pissed off I hit him between the eyes and he went down, but to my surprise, he come up with a lawsuit in his hand.
But I called right back and I marked him the theif, and he forced the conversation into the non-witnessed street. Acronym'in and a' cursing, I made my stand.
I tell ya, I've stolen identities of tougher men but I really can't remember when, he tricked like a snake, brought out a Pocket PC and filed
another suit, he said I'd pay for this fuss, he went for his digital pen and initialed first, he stood there lookin' at me and I saw him smile.
And he said: "Son, this world is rough and if an association is gonna make it, their legal gotta be tough and you know, to keep the music monopoly along
we'll crush independents until they die, we'll overexpose until you buy and from those sales major labels go on strong."
He said: "now you just fought one hell of a fight and I know you hate me, and you got the right to report me now, and I wouldn't blame you if you do.
But ya ought to thank me before your case is tried, for the l33t circles and coding sk1llz in ya eye cause I'm the son-of-a-bitch that forces you underground when I yell "Sue."
I got all choked up and I threw down my Palm and I thought about his crooked law, and I saw that everytime he sue'd it's true.
My hacking gets better, and my ski11z get l33ter every time I find a P2P that's sweeter, but in the end, whoever wins, we all still lose.
Cause the RIAA has got control over music, congress and America's soul and if you want to download, copy or even use
any music you've bought and paid for, without fail, you'll be fined or put in jail, all in the name of their goddam revenues.
I think about him now every time I see, a young coder writing stuff that's free, and if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna teach him...
to fight the corporations from a legal and political standpoint, so he won't have to hack, and support free music with all his back, and maybe after a generation or two
their greed'll thin, and freedom will win, sampling songs won't be a sin, and we'll have taken and farmed all their grounds to sue.
c-hack.com |
Googling for dctf-1.wmv reveals... **HTTP MIRROR** http://static.hugi.is/video/fyndin/dctf-1.wmv Remember kids, don't hammer the server! For the song, someone has already posted an OGG mirror...
Sheesh, the only thing less appealing than that would be some fat, smelly GNU hippy!
For those of you who prefer Gnutella, here's a magnet link:
magnet:?xt=urn:bitprint:I222WLXEM5JZ7PTBFSALQA7LBW X5LCNV.MFCP752L3CMH7QTS57USLQ6VKSKU5ZUSNZLO3GI&dn= dctf-1.wmv
Merely cut and paste into magnet-capable P2P apps like Shareaza
And it actually has sources!
Have at it
...I've already finished my download.
This site clarifies Monitor Man in English. Sort of.
"Suntory starts to promote their products with "Monitor Man". Monitor man is who put helmet with LCD display which show advertisement on his head."
I think it's catching on here in the U.S.
My girlfriend and I went to the new Sony movie theater in Georgetown a couple weeks back and they had 3 people walking around outside with the very same contraption attached to their heads displaying movie trailers.
Most passerbys just pointed and giggled but there were a few people who actually stopped to watch the trailers.
I can't imagine how embarrasing it must be to have some guy standing 2 feet in front of you staring at the screen on top of your head. God awful job.
The horse is dead. Either fuck it or walk away, but please stop beating it.
This movie reminds me more of Alex DeLarge from A Clockwork Orange... maybe it was the top hat. Don't copy the floppy! I have a pain in me guliver!
...how Queen Latifa got her start. Now I know.
There are 01 kinds of cars in the world. The General Lee, and everything else.
I saw this in a CS class maybe 8 years ago? It was a Technology and Society class, we all learned about how NOT to copy THAT floppy. That song is stuck in my head forever, this article isn't helping! Thanks Slashdot.
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Likewise with Fed which I think is now at http://www.ibgames.net/
also no longer free
Oh BSA, your cacophonic rapper playing on an 68020 processor without an FPU has opened my eyes. I will never again copy a floppy. In fact, I won't even use one, and I quite hopefully will never see one again except perhaps in a RAID device. From now on, I will only copy CDs, DVDs, books, Reagan's economic policies, the sound of a dying giraffe, and just about everything other than floppies.
Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.
I rememeber a friend telling me how he watched what must have been this video in school.
5 years ago he was in an introductory computer course and he had to watch it. I remember the day he was complaining about it. He paraphrased some of the rap like "Don't copy that floppy its against the law!"
At the time I almost couldn't believe a video like that existed--now there is proof, wow!
This post is both on topic and kinda funny. looks like some loser has it in for you.
The best part is the rapper who is singing and dancing to a great anti-piracy song.
...you could have explained that you meant "a black guy who is moving spastically and non-lip-synchronously to an incredibly horrible anti-piracy farce 'rap'" before I wasted my time downloading all 16MB of this mindless propoganda.
At least qualify your definition of 'great', like so:
"To me, 'great' is a synonym for that feeling you get when someone else throws up in your mouth".
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Isn't that the (copywritten) THX sound "Deep Note" when they put in the floppy? The one that Dr. Dre used and got sued for... I wonder if they got permission ;)
And if you really really want to play it it's available here. Seeing as how it's an offline rip of an online game, you can't save or anything. But from a historical perspective it's interesting.
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What's the point? Is this some sort of evil social engineering experiment or what?
404 on the mp3, wtf....
Until I can open a piece of software, try it, and return it and get my full money back with out any hassel I'll have no problems copying software to see if I like it. It's silly we can't try any software to see if we actually enjoy it at the prices they are at now.
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First I thought it was weird that the "game designers" are people from AOL, which AFAIK (at least at the time) was more of an ISP. But probably they had the odd game on their pages.
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A much more interesting thing is that later they thank "all the companies that donated software". In other words, they didn't pay a cent for any of the software used to make that video!
The ENIAC Demo Competition
We used to say (in parody) "don't floppy that copy" in reference to putting any important data on floppy because floppies are so unreliable.
It is interesting how many things in the video turned out to be downright false:
1) Piracy will end all software development.
2) The only motivating factor in software development is profit.
3) Every pirated copy represents a lost sale.
4) Oregon trail ran on a Mac LC.
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The disk protector (M.E. Hart) now works for a a company called Strategic Interations Inc. http://www.strategicinteractions.com/pages/who/bio s.html Funny how google finds things like that.