SOPA Gets Taiwanese News Animation Treatment

from the hitting-the-big-time dept

Mon, Nov 28th 2011 11:48am — Mike Masnick

Want to know when a bit of news has really hit the mainstream? It's when the Taiwanese company Next Media Animation does a computer generated animation of the story. These videos have become a media sensation. Guess what they just took on? Yup, the battle over SOPA, which they animate by showing Hollywood lobbyists seeking to attack the internet, and showing not only how tech companies teamed up to fight this, but that internet users are pushing back. Amusingly, they make use of the imagery from the UC Davis pepper spray incident to show how Hollywood and the government can "knock out" sites under SOPA.

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Filed Under: animation, grassroots, news, pipa, protect ip, sopa, taiwan

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Anonymous Coward, 28 Nov 2011 @ 12:00pm

If these internet companies depend upon illegal activity to make their money, then they need to adapt and find a better business model.
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- Kevin H (profile), 28 Nov 2011 @ 12:06pm
  
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  If these content companies can't figure out how to use the internet as a tool to make money rather than a competitor then THEY need the better business model.
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- Marty, 28 Nov 2011 @ 12:13pm
  
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  What illegal activity do you speak of? It can't be drug smuggling, since the music labels have that covered. And it can't be money laundering and tax evasion, since the movie studios have been doing that for the longest time.
  Wait, do you mean copying things? That hasn't been an illegal activity since the dark ages. What century is this, the 17th? Wait... I'm traveling back in time, aren't I?!
  Oh fuck, I should have known it. Stupid Biff always messing with the controls.
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  - Anonymous Coward, 28 Nov 2011 @ 1:50pm
    
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    What about Hollywood Accounting? How they can make so much money and still claim a loss so that they don't have to pay their artists anything.
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- Marcus Carab (profile), 28 Nov 2011 @ 12:17pm
  
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  Yup, that's Google & Facebook for you. Totally dependent on illegal activity. There's practically nothing else on those pirate websites.
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- Richard (profile), 28 Nov 2011 @ 12:27pm
  
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  If these internet companies depend upon illegal activity to make their money, then they need to adapt and find a better business model.
  
  You think you're clever or somehow have apoint here - but actually you just look stupid.
  
  The point is that SOPA would disrupt perfectly legal business models.
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- Richard (profile), 28 Nov 2011 @ 12:38pm
  
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  If these internet companies depend upon illegal activity to make their money, then they need to adapt and find a better business model.
  
  Bad news for locksmiths, insurance agencies, security firms and the makers of DRM then....
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- Anonymous Coward, 28 Nov 2011 @ 6:51pm
  
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  >If these internet companies depend upon illegal activity to make their money, then they need to adapt and find a better business model.
  
  Should've told Rupert Murdoch that, mate.
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SD (profile), 28 Nov 2011 @ 12:06pm

English version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNPFsv9Ecgk

Kinda disappointed the Chinese panda didn't make an appearance...
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Anonymous Coward, 28 Nov 2011 @ 12:44pm

Wow, this is almost as lame as Nina Paley's dogshit.
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- weneedhelp (profile), 28 Nov 2011 @ 12:59pm
  
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  "Wow, this is almost as lame as Nina Paley's dogshit."
  
  At least it was free. Imagine if you payed for it, played it for 5:33 hours completing 5% of it only to find out a crucial element needed to get past where you are does not work. Then spent 2 hours trying to find and empliment a fix that does not exist yet, and the company that sold you this defective POS could care less because they already have your money. Thanks EA. I will be joining our pirate friends and downloading a DRM free copy that works.
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- Anonymous Coward, 28 Nov 2011 @ 2:38pm
  
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  When the trolls stop trotting out their talking points and switch to one-liner ad-homs, you know you're winning. Keep it up!
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- abc gum, 28 Nov 2011 @ 2:49pm
  
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  "Wow, this is almost as lame as Nina Paley's dogshit."
  
  Heh - and I thought that was your shidoobie.
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- The eejit (profile), 28 Nov 2011 @ 3:17pm
  
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  You're about as eloquent as an un-potty-trained labradoodle and with all the good graces of an un-potty-trained labradoodle.
  
  This is a news company telling their view on SOPA. The company has often hilarious takes on world news.
  
  Grow the fuck up.
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  - A Guy (profile), 28 Nov 2011 @ 3:44pm
    
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    I wish I could get my dog to use the toilet. That would be awesome.
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gorehound (profile), 28 Nov 2011 @ 3:58pm

This is Awesome !!!
It is the funniest thing I have seen in years and more funny than an MPAA Comedy film !!!

+1
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