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China Pirates Austrian Village
First time accepted submitter thecoolstacks writes "Knockoff Apple Stores are one thing...but a knockoff Austrian village? That's some hardcore piracy right there, but we guess leave it China to do what it does best. From the article: 'After a year of construction and a price tag of $940 million dollars, the Chinese have successfully recreated the Austrian village of Hallstatt in its entirety over in the Southern Guangzhou Province. And let’s just say not every Austrian’s a fan of having their UNESCO heritage site ripped off. But since China is Austria’s second largest trading partner, what are you gonna do?'"
Seriously? Pirated? How about mimics, copies, or "builds replica of". I guess the next time I build a table for a friend based on another design I'll be a patch wearing, one-legged, parrot lover too. Ridiculous!!
This has already been posted on the main page a good fortnight ago. The article is available here: http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/06/05/2332224/china-secretly-clones-austrian-village
Dupe.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/06/05/2332224/china-secretly-clones-austrian-village
To be fair, its more than a day or two. But only 2 weeks ago.
You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.
...going to be more difficult. The Chinese have two alternatives.
1. They can abduct thousands of people to populate their village or more likely
2. They're going to user their citizens as knock off Chinese imitations of Austrians. In which case, I am booking a flight to China to see this place immediately.
My kingdom for a donkey!
Seriously, how do articles like this get accepted in the first place?
China made a village in the exact style, placements, etc. of an Austrian village. Piracy? Piracy, hardcore, piracy is what China does best? What kind of baseless insult is that? Is this news, or some emotional butthurt editorial from an Austrian?
Does that mean that large parts of China Town ripped off China? Las Vegas ripped off France with its mini Eiffel Tower?
Get real. I can't even believe this is an article. Should not have even made it to Idle.
"China is Austria’s second largest trading partner".
Umm... I think you may have Austria and Australia confused. Austria is that tiny country in the middle of Europe known for the 'Sound of Music', the birth place of Hitler, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Josef Fritzl (serial incestual rapist), the alps ... but not so much for kangaroos.
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"What are you gonna do?" ... nothing? It's not like the Austrian town isn't still there in its entirety.
How about
Somewhat related - There's a golf course near where I live that re-created portions of famous golf courses from around the world, and got sued by several of them for this. And it was fucking ridiculous.
Ref. http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1995_1309260/lawyers-make-final-arguments-in-tour-18-lawsuit.html
You can't copyright a city. The city is not being passed off as the "original". It is not piracy by any definition of the word. And if it were every country would be in trouble. There are 30 Eiffel Towers around the globe. The Statue of Liberty is no different. Even the Taj Mahal has been copied. Does this undermines the value of the original? I don't think so. If anything, someone who visited a copy might be more willing to travel to see what the original looks like. That said, I don't see the point of copying a whole city, but maybe that's just me.
No, Austria and Australia didn't get mixed up. You don't think China could be their second largest trading partner, right after, let's say, neighbor country Germany?
Sig?
That's some hardcore piracy right there, but we guess leave it China to do what it does best.
That's some writing a small child would be ashamed of, but we leave it to Slashdot editors to fail at what they fail at best.
Nope. Unsurprisingly, the major trade partners are mostly their immediate neighbors and other EU member states. According to the statistical office of the austrian government, the most important trading partners are (export numbers in 2011):
1) Germany: 31.1%
2) Italy: 7.6%
3) United States: 5.2%
4) Switzerland: 4.9%
5) France: 4.1%
6) Czech Republic: 3.9%
7) Hungary: 3.1%
8) UK: 3%
9) Poland: 2.8%
10) Russian Federation: 2.4%
11) China: 2.4%
That's quite a bit distant from being the second most important trade partner, so I think it's very likely that someone confused the two countries:
What a dumb ass.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
You wouldn't steal a house, You wouldn't steal a city.
But you're free to build one exactly like it (more or less "copy it") and use it the way you like.
And Austria won't ratify it too. So what?
Because Hallstatt is one of the main finding places for certain neolithican artifacts, which thus are called Hallstatt culture? It's like Neanderthal - everyone knows the neanderthals, but who actually ever was at the Neanderthal Train station or walked through the Neander valley, named after the german composer Joachim Neander (which ironically is a greek translation of Neander's original family name Neumann = new man)? Most of you only know the human species Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, whose remainings were first found there.
Much like this story, then.
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At 500+ years old, I'm fairly sure the 'village' is in the public domain
Oh God... the ninjas... they're turning into pirates!
Thank you for the image of a black clad ninja with a wooden leg and a parrot on his shoulder. Now all they need to do is to find out how to move silently while saying "Arrrrh!" at the same time.
The REAL "pirates" here are thecoolstacks and samzenpus.
They've taken a story already posted by Hugh Pickens and Soulskill, and they've reposted it.
What's a ninja/pirate's favourite blowgun poison? Cur-arrrr-ré.
And Red Bull, the croissant, coffee names so weird it would make even starbucks blush and a generally twisted naming scheme for food (a popular sausage is called a "Eitrige" - the ulcerous). No kangaroos though.
According to Statistik Austria, China had an export share of 2.4% ranking eleventh. The top three would be Germany (31.1%), Italy (7.6%) and the United States 5.4%. They do import a lot from China (rank 4) but less than 5%.
So yes, someone probably mixed those two up or didn't check the facts.
Built by the same people who made the replica Taiwanese sites? Is this a subtle threat to intimidate the Austrians?
If only they did that using 3d additive printing performed by adruino/PV cells powered drones swarm that are controlled using crowd sourcing trough a cloud.
That'd be hardcore....
Austria is being paved over with highways, strip malls, excessive parking, soulless suburbs and soviet style housing projects at breakneck speed. Our decadent and postmodernist elites plunck down atrocities like these (Kunsthaus Graz) into the middle of our beautiful town centers.
The income from tourism provides the only political motivation for some restraint. Funny how tourists aren't interested in any places or buildings that were built during the last 60 years. But even this concern is considered parochial and therefore under constant attack from the (pseudo)intellectual class. To preserve what is beautiful is disparaged as "wishing to live in a museum". A redoubled effort to build even more brutalist and grotesque structures on the other hand is alleged to bring a more "sophisticated" set of tourists.
Great civilizations imitate and learn from the achievements of the past and others and build upon it. The modernism and postmodernism of the West on the other hand seeks to wipe the slate clean and start from scratch. The result is perpetual dilettantism.
The Chinese are on the right track. I wish they would copy more or even build an Austrian town here in Austria.
In either case, bang goes the neighbourhood.
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
Oh God... the ninjas... they're turning into pirates!
Fail. Ninjas are Japanese.
So you're saying that the Chinese are copying the Japanese now too?!
The evil rotter, hang him from the highest mast, or a doorframe, whatever is closest. As long as he is hanged. The dirty pirate!
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Here's what pirates' attempts to move silently look like.
The linked site seems to easily exceed its bandwidth and the article is also quite bad.
Here's a better one from Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/05/china-austria-idUSL3E8H42VJ20120605
For those who understand German or just want to see a short video of the Chinese copy of Hallstatt:
http://www.spiegel.de/video/china-baut-oesterreichischen-ort-hallstatt-nach-video-1200461.html
Hell yeah!
UNESCO should be thankfull that there's a backup in case the original gets wiped by an eathquake.
It's the zombie like duplicate people that will really creep you out!
The loudest song about moving silently.
How about "Slashdot Pirates Prior Slashdot Story"
What's a pirate's favorite letter of the alphabet?
RRRRRRRRRRR
Aye, you'd think it would be the RRRR, but it's the C.
Old news.
I looked on google maps http://goo.gl/maps/1eta based on comments about the actual city name. I wasn't able to see anything special. Does anyone else have a better fix on the location?
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