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Award-Winning Ad Taken Off Air In Australia
bol_kernal writes "An award-winning advertisement on Australian TV for the new Hyundai 4WD has been pulled from being broadcast after stations received 80 complaints from concerned parents. The ad consists of a small child, age around 2 years, cruising down the road, window down, arm out the window, in his new Hyundai 4WD. He sees a girl of the same age standing on the side of the road, pulls over picks her up, and they go to the beach together. All in all it's cute, funny, and very well done. The ad aired late in the evening (8:30 pm or later), but it was pulled due to concern from parents about the copycat risk. What I want to know is, where has the responsibility of parents gone? Is the world becoming so serious — or so frightened — that fantasy is no longer allowed?"
Tips and tricks for posting off-topic comments: 1. Do not use you karma bonus. Not only will mods overlook an off-topic post with a score of 1 but it limits your karma loss... 2. Hadn't thought this far when I started the post. Now, should I listen to my own advise?
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'Display Eater' writer admits hollow threat
Code will not eat your Apple
By Nick Farrell: Monday 26 February 2007, 06:43
THE WRITER of the Apple software Display Eater has admitted that his licence contained a hollow threat when it threatened to destroy the personal file of any one who installed it with a dodgy code number.
On Friday we wrote how Karsten Kusche, who works for another Apple software maker Briksoftware, discovered that Display Eater's licence threatens that if you try to use a pirated serial number with Display Eater, the software will delete your home file.
If you go to the webpage of Reverse Code [http://reversecode.com/], which makes the software, the developer says that the whole purpose of the licence was to create a scare campaign. He though that if people feared sticking in a pirated licence code number he would not have to waste time writing copy protection routines to be broken over and over.
He admitted that the whole idea was a mistake. Some people started buying multiple keys, which he never intended, and when the protection was in place, people who did not even know they had committed piracy or what piracy was were left in the dark.
Legitimate and prospective users started fearing the program, which he never imagined. He said he now has plans to make the software free, and or open source. He has since released a free key which will not eat your Apple.