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Olympic Web Site Features Pirated Content

Posted by kdawson on from the do-as-I-say dept.

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."

3 of 235 comments (clear)

  1. Is Slashdot an official Anti-China site now ? by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There are tons of things China has done wrong, but not this one !

    Is this a slow news day or what ?

    Geeeeesh.

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    Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
  2. Re:Chinese copies? by fractalVisionz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Has anyone though that maybe they got permission to make the copy? I would suspect that there would be permission and not just a blatant copy. Maybe I'm putting to much faith in them, but hey, no one has mentioned it yet.

  3. What is actually being copied here? by argent · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Are we talking about a copy of the code of the game, or are we talking about the look-and-feel copyright of the game play? Is this a matter of them downloading the flash and modifying it, or is this just a workalike?

    Regardless of the details of copyright law in China, or in the US, is this violation something we should be concerned about or is it something we would expect the LPF to be defending if it happened in another context?