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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."
Choice of characters, better graphics.
How date they!
Seeing as I'm replying to myself here, let's make it 3 for 3.
The original work is 353,472 bytes. The copied material is:
icecube 758 bytes
cloud 3464 bytes
splash sound 5423 bytes
bell sound 1783 bytes
poof sound 1783 bytes
bling sound 1783 bytes
song 42967 bytes
total 57961 bytes
Which is 16% of the original work, and the majority of that is the song which was used in neither the original work, nor the derivative..
In any case, this is small enough to be considered fair use.
How we know is more important than what we know.
A sentence about the IOC's affects on your Uncle's hotel followed immediately by disparaging comments related to the IOC through info about China. No conflict of interest here at all. It's a very concise business case against the IOC and to win favor for your poor Uncle's hotel. I expect many /. mods are trying to get a free night there.
Welcome to the world of slashdot "consistency."
It's ok for scrabulous to copy scrabble because some slashdot users personally like scrabulous as compared to the "old economy" "dinosaur" company of Hasbro. it's not ok for china to copy this game because in this case china is the "old dinosaur bureaucracy" compared to the hip flash developer.
slashdot: home of situational ethics.