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Olympic Web Site Features Pirated Content
An anonymous reader writes "Despite all the emphasis on protecting Olympic copyrights in China this year, the official web site of the Beijing Olympics features a Flash game that is a blatant copy of one of the games developed at The Pencil Farm. Compare the game on the Olympic site with 'Snow Day' at The Pencil Farm."
I decompiled it, there's no similarity.
All the graphics are different.. you don't even need a decompiler to see that.
Here's the main routine of the Chinese game.
And here's the routines from the other one.
Even without understanding action script anyone can tell they are completely different.
And besides, why would you bother ripping off the code for something so trivial? Any decent Flash jockey could re-write this game in an hour or two.
How we know is more important than what we know.
I hate to piss in the porridge, but we're talking about a government that kills people for daring to express an unpopular opinion! It murders babies (near and full-term abortions) to enforce a one-child-per-family policy, and has hundreds of other draconian policies to protect its power structure and closed society. You think it's going to give a damn about a copyrighted game? They don't and won't.
One more time. This is Communist China. They kill their own people. They don't care about rights