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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."
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...
Bullshit, I got a P60 with 16MB of RAM and a 500MB hard drive that year. I could play videos. It was hot shit.
Also, what about Amiga? They had fullscreen video editing at that time.
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"
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.
Anyone else notice that Pixar is mentioned in the credits?
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.
Satire is a protected Fair Use right... :-)
Gilad.
Gilad.
Well. BitTorrent is very nice. But it still doesn't work for all of us. Some of us are behind firewalls and the only way out is through a proxy. And:
a) I haven't been able to configure a proxy in any torrent client. Burst has a page for proxy settings but it reads that those settings don't do anything at the moment.
b) How about proxies that don't let connections to any other port than 80 for HTTP and 443 for SSL.
Normal links would be nice, thank you. Most of the nerds in here will click on the torrent link insted of the 'normal' link anyway, so only us crippled will need the normal one.
There also the Tompox mix.
BTW, here are other contributions to RMS art by Tompox
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