Random Humor

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."

Comments

Blue's News mentioned this on July 4th...

[antdude]

You can find the WMV download link here. The music video is quite long and amusing. :)

For those of us without bit torrent

[Anonymous Coward]

I recommend you go and GET bittorrent. On Windows, I recommend the Burst! client.

Re:For those of us without bit torrent

[Anonymous Coward]

Regular Bittorrent?

Re:Oh man. Don't COpy That Floppy...

[TheOnlyCoolTim]

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

Re:The best part of "Don't Copy That Floppy"

[broeman]

As just seeing this, it reminds me of a simular approach from the anti-piracy group in Denmark (aka MPAA-clone) some years ago. Showing some television commercial with frat-boys downloading music on the internet. Many segments of the country (they were trying to market it to parents) including youngsters and parents felt strong against this image of young people in Denmark, and they recalled the commercial. Software has been and still are a issue of pirating, from Commodore 64 in the 80's to windoze today ... well, OSS will pervail ... Join usss now ... shaaare the ... (singing while listening to Fensters version, please put your hands to your ears when you read this).

Re:Irony?

[Anonymous Coward]

The credits of the video name and thank the software companies involved, and I'm sure that they were used with full permission.

Why make a comment like that up? Any evidence that "many of the companies who fight piracy ofthen break the laws that they are trying to enforce"? (beyond your crazy allegations involving this video)

More info about the video.

[will_die]

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.

Re:More info about the video.

[will_die]

Tested the link and got the wrong article.
Here is the correct google cache of them article.

Where are they now

[Torgo's Pizza]

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.

I have the files

[[vmlinuz]]

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