First the ministry of culture drafts an awful copyright law that even their specialists can't interpret. Then they outsourced the PR and education to the hands of Finnish anti-piracy people. These people have produced a comic full of accusation and moral ethos with little facts. The script of the book was written by one of the most active copyright lobbyist in Finland. The comic book along with some slides is being distributed to school teachers to use to educate teens. While the material is meant for wide distribution, the PDF version of the comic has DRM, that forbids copying or printing of the file. Smart move guys for PR material... not!
In less than 24 hours after the piraattitehdas revealed the site a parody version of the site was born. Anne Hitek-Kerho sent me this comic which is a hilarious parody of the propaganda PR effort. Download copycontrollinarvoitus.pdf
Funny thing... my spelling-checker suggest that piraattitehdas should be written "prostitutes" : )
Sivulla 7 orginaalissa muuten opetetaan puhumaan kännykkään autoa ajaessa.. laittomuuksia opettavat..
Posted by: Ville | Friday, 27 January 2006 at 01:49
Fantastic! Haven't seen parody this good and to the point in a long time. My compliments to the artist.
Btw, there is an empty bubble in the third frame of p. 15. I think that "Vararikko" (bankruptcy) would fit in nicely. That's what the artists get out of this piece of... legislation.
Posted by: Anon | Thursday, 23 February 2006 at 19:46