I didn't know viruses could do that
I cannot believe how fucking retarded this is. It’s a flash animation/movie presented by the Business Software Alliance about a girl graphic designer who happens to be a malicious evil software pirate by night. And one night (apparently via Hotline) she downloads ‘a virus that steals her design portfolio.’ Then she’s transported inside her computer to fight off the virus. She magically picks up money on the road video-game style and uses it to buy liscenced software, which both kills the virus and enables her company to become a giant corporation. Where, I’m assuming, her young slave-like underlings who make minumum wage must illegally copy her software for their own freelance gigs on the weekend. Or something similar, I’m sure.
Don’t get me started on how making money for a real designer isn’t just like driving down the road, let alone that the tiny amount of money our heroine pays and the massive library of software she ends up owning don’t even come close to matching.
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holy shit! where did you find this? unbelievable.
although i loved the thinly veiled references to pitfall, if the BSA was going to try to teach a moral lesson about licensing software, then meg should have had to pay more than $250 for it. c’mon, when’s the last time you saw a top end product from adobe for $250???
I probably should have mentioned that I found it via Kottke.org.. but then Will would have gotten mad at me. 🙂
holy shit! where did you find this? unbelievable.
although i loved the thinly veiled references to pitfall, if the BSA was going to try to teach a moral lesson about licensing software, then meg should have had to pay more than $250 for it. c’mon, when’s the last time you saw a top end product from adobe for $250???
I probably should have mentioned that I found it via Kottke.org.. but then Will would have gotten mad at me. 🙂