Disney's Anti-File Swapping Cartoon

LordXarph writes: "Newsforge has a story about Disney's anti-file swapping episode of their cartoon "Proud Family." The synopsis is simply hysterical; I'm waiting for someone to write a gnutella servent called EZ-Jackster."

Looks like the 'giants of computing'...

[Glock27]

are going to do the right thing!

Tech giants pan anti-piracy mandate! [cnet.com]

It's good to see this, after all the press the evil big-media giants have been getting lately! :-)

299,792,458 m/s...not just a good idea, its the law!

If you think stealing copyrighted songs is evil...

[ekrout]

If you think stealing copyrighted songs is evil...you should watch the many infamous porn-related scenes in various Disney classics, such as the "Good teenagers...take off their clothes" line in "Aladdin", and the pen1s-shaped castles in "The Little Mermaid". This isn't a troll or flamebait -- do your research and you'll see.

Re:If you think stealing copyrighted songs is evil

[mdecerbo]

do your research and you'll see...

...that this is an urban legend [snopes2.com]; the line (which Aladdin mutters to Jasmine's pet tiger), is "Scat, good tiger, take off and go."

But the story got picked up by the same credulous
wackos who insist the Procter and Gamble logo is Satanic, and now it won't die...

Don't forget ...

[Hagmonk]

... how similar this is to the whole "Say no to drugs" campaigning that was sanctioned by the government for the longest time. Lots of kids programs featured episodes based around it - and did they work? No!

Have you seen Traffic? We all know that the drug problem is complex and non-trivial to solve. File swapping is the same. The solution is not to try and stop people from swapping digital content, but to figure out how free digital content can integrate with our lives.

The whole disney thing is 'spooky' of course (the contrast between disney's lovely family face and this underhanded propaganda is just fabulous), but perhaps not something to worry about.

Re:Wow

[MrBogus]

You missed the episode of What's Happenin? where the Doobie Brothers appear and lecture Rerun and the kids on the evils of "dubbing".

Where exactly did you 'check'.

[delmoi]

because I have a feeling you didn't 'check' anything, and you're simply spouting uniformed opinion.

If disney wants to take a shot at IP...

[zerocool^]

If disney [disney.com] wants to discuss IP, they'd better take a look at This site [thesecretofbluewater.com].

Basically, Disney ripped their latest fiasco, Lost city of Atlantis, straight from Nadia, queen of the see, a terriffic anime job.

And they say they had never heard of Nadia... Take a look and see what you think.

~z