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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 ;-)
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.
Regular Bittorrent?
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)
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adj.
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1. Simple and guileless; artless: a child with a naive charm.
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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
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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.
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....
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Now if only SCO had made a video like this...
EGG, the Electronic Gamers Guild
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?
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.
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?
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.
Oh, sorry, we had the 'irony' conversation the other day. mumble mumble...
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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
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
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.
They don't give you permission to "copy this video for the despicable purpose of mocking the most venerable SPA organization."
With Apache too (set MaxClients to whatever you want in the config file). I think that person has simply never setup a web server.
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.
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
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.
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