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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."
With Apache too (set MaxClients to whatever you want in the config file). I think that person has simply never setup a web server.
This is one fact that many of us "old Skool" guys remember vividly and caused a large portion of no respect for any copyright.
If the SPA can condone and protect Outright raping of a programmer like they did with tetris... why should I honor ANYTHING that is made by them and their members?
Today as an adult, I am legal and honor copyright by avoiding all of the software from them and their members... by Using BSD and linux at home.
When did he even imply that?
He sounds to me to be a great parent, since he's taking an interest in what his kids are doing at school, and also thinks that if they're gonna be taught something, they shouldn't be patronised.
There's a difference to believing that sex education is a good thing, and believing that they should be allowed to do what they want.
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?