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."

Comments

You got it wrong

[Jack Malmostoso]

These are Summer Olympics, that game is called "Snow Day". How could it be a copy?

Yawn!

[Stephen Samuel]

Knockoffs from China... What next? Lies from the WhiteHouse?

They should be grateful

[gijoel]

Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery.

attack of the clones

[Anonymous Coward]

i wonder if the website is being routed through their knocked-off copies of cisco equipment too?

i'm just waiting to find out that their athletes are clones of americans, but with cheaper parts and crappy build quality, that say strange things due to mis-translation of the manuals.

Social Commentary about China's pollution?

[reidconti]

Seriously, can noone else see this game as a hilariously ironic commentary on China's futile attempts to lower pollution in order to have blue skies for the Olympics?

Of course this: http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8874472Economist article seems to not be loading right now, but they even have a blue sky monitoring scale which counts days without brutal amounts of smog, and are trying to figure out if they can somehow control the weather.

Re:Not just a copy...

[fatphil]

I can't verify that because the chinese one works on flash 7 (which I do have installed), but the "original" runs only on flash 8 or above (which I don't have installed). So hoorah for the chinese for making more portable games, and ptooey to the original author who was unable to animate a few freaking sprites without using version 8 of the flash API.

Re:Bullshit.

[mrboyd]

The funny thing is that the chinese source code looks cleaner than the original. If I had to choose a company by looking at those two samples I'd probably go for outsourcing in china.

Smells like trouble for the US job market :)

Re:Copyright doesn't work like that

[Workaphobia]

Quantum, I think you forgot to log out and post anonymously before trolling, or perhaps you have some sort of split personality. Please explain what you're talking about.