Anti-Piracy Campaign Shows You 'Killing' Look Alike Pop Stars
from the that's-convincing dept
There have been some really ridiculous "anti-piracy" campaigns out there, but this one is really quite impressive. TorrentFreak has the details on a site, called FreemusicHK.com, that pretends to be a site for downloading unauthorized music. However, when you actually do go to download it, instead you get to play a little flash game where you get to "kill" look alike pop stars on the cover of their albums. Of course, the pop-stars aren't just lookalikes, but name-alikes, too. So, it's Any Winehouse, instead of Amy. It's Madownload, instead of Madonna. It's Biur, instead of Blur. Copy Play instead of
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So they don't have to listen to the customers, in their (failed) logic.
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Trademark infringement!
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Kill?
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So let me get this straight...
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I'd say aim for the chests, but those are probably the silicone on the women will probably act as shielding.
Aiming for the stomach might work...but my aim isn't the greatest, and hitting things that thin has always been tough.
You know, this might be more difficult than I thought. We might need the big guns.
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Did someone sack the link?
Were any moose harmed?
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Wear fur? We throw paint or pig blood on you.
Copyright infringement is murder!
next we will see the RIAA stealing cars out of the drive ways of suspected copyright infringers.
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The flash game doesn't play at all for me. Guess I'm .0something a version off for flash.
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KILL eh?
one can only hope the morons of the world realize that all you have to do is look what popular shows ALWAYS USE cops and fbi as heroes
im sick of that, its so far from the truth that its not funny any more.
and you do realize that tin foil hats actually enhance govt waves to your brain n thus control.....
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P.S. stargate universe
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@9
and maybe they will start just blowing up houses of infingers
cause they are terrorist plots against the motherland er hollywood er someone....
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The idea of a *Chinese* music magazine starting an anti-piracy campaign in the first place is amusing enough as it is, but add on to that the fact that all the artists in that site are (supposed to be) western (white stripes, blur, gorillaz, madonna, amy winehouse etc...) sets off some weird signals in my head.
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if it sounds too good to be true...
This kind of stuff would not even be an issue if the music industry sold what people actually want to buy at a reasonable price.
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Actually, it is - fire up your Limewire clone or Pirate Bay-style website, search, click, download, listen. Thanks to regional restrictions, artificial scarcity and release windowing, it's often easier to get a free "pirate" copy than it is to download the real thing by paying for it.
"This kind of stuff would not even be an issue if the music industry sold what people actually want to buy at a reasonable price."
Indeed.
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They should really make a game like this
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Best game ever
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I wonder what kind of viruses loaded on my computer while I played that flash game???????
Maybe TD and TF got played?
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Aha! Thanks. Updated the post.
Yeah, Moby probably would not be happy given his previous rants about the RIAA.
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RIAA lawyers
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Copy Play != Coldplay
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Bono is in there?
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We have a population in the US very conditioned to believe what they hear most repeated in the media. Since it's media companies that are pushing these restrictions, it was easy for them to accomplish the change in the mind-set.
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There have been some really ridiculous "anti-piracy" campaigns out there, but this one is really quite impressive.
ME : glad your impressed. But on "copyrights and Artists" , you Mike ,, are also "bewildered" ,, "out of sync with society as a whole",, "strangely ignorant of human history and philosophy on the matter",,, and "just plain nuts! !!".
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