Forwarding a post from the pho digital music list (end of this message). A Newsforge item that also appeared about this today reads: "--Disney Channel cartoon portrays music downloads as evil The Disney Channel cartoon series The Proud Family (http://disney.go.com/disneychannel/zoogdisney/shows/proudfamily/index_main.h... ) aired an episode on Oct. 5 entitled EZ Jackster. In the storyline, EZ Jackster is a Napster-like site, and the show's little heroines get addicted to the service and play a part in the downfall of the music industry. Disney is one of the backers of the SSSCA proposed legislation that is scheduled for a hearing before Congress Oct. 25. <http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/22/1636242&mode=thread The TV summary site, TV Tome, shows this synopsis of the episode in question: "After Penny spends $125 on CDs with her five-cent salary, she meets a boy, Mega, who tells her about a napster-like website he made called EZ Jackster. All weekend she was sitting at the computer, downloading music from EZ Jackster. Finally, Dijonay comes over and asks what she was doing over the weekend. Penny asks Dijonay if she can keep a secret, knowing that she can't. Penny tells Dijonay to tell everyone she knows about EZ Jackster. Her telling everybody about EZ Jackster has a ripple-effect all around the world. From India to Africa to Suga Mama! But rap singer, Sir Paid-A-Lot is threatened by this because he got a five-cents salary instead of his million-dollar salary. But suddenly, after wrestling, the news interrupted the next program telling about EZ Jackster. It shows a house of where the EZ Jackster-spreader lives. Oscar comments how ugly the house is, not realizing it was their house. Trudy is mad at Penny for stealing music so she takes away her computer. Later, Penny gets a call from Mega, asking if she is still using EZ Jackster. Will Penny listen to her parents?"--" [BEGIN PHO POST] -----Original Message----- From: PHO Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 12:06 AM Subject: pho: Tonight on Disney Well Pho Pholks Lara Lavi here from Very Juicy Records I relay this without passing judgement just sharing with you what I just saw this evening. I turn on the TV with my little 2.5 year old to watch some Disney show about an African American teen girl (The Proud Family - animated show) and here is the story line ( I think I missed the first couple scenes but here is the general jist. 1. Girl working at her antiquated computer her dad gave her in her room. 2. Mystery guy (cool hip hop looking dude in black) shows up at her window and supplies her with an up to date computer, takes her into "the Matrix and shows her a web area called Free Jackster where she can get all the music she could ever want FOR FREE, 3. The girl asks if this is illegal and mystery guy explains it is our birthright to have free music, creativity should not have a price 4. Girl gets addicted to collecting free music, her obsession leads to telling all her friends. soon the site is getting millions of hits from kids to grandmothers. 5. Next scene at the The Wizard Record Label board room where "Sir Paid Alot" enters to complain his royalty check was only five cents. This alerts The Wizard (head of the label) that there is a retail problem he needs to look into. 6. Teen Girl's house is surrounded that night by police and press and she is arrested for illegal downloads, gets a warning,. The news makes it clear that millions of people can;'t be stopped, Parents take computer away from girl and explain why free downloads is STEALING. - kind of an abirdged explanation of how copyrights work. 6. Next scene, Asian Guy's retail record store is empty, guy is crying on the floor. Teen Girl who happens to work at the store show up to work, aisian guy fires her for supporting all the free downloads 7. Next scene charts showing record sales are down down down to nothing because people get the music for free 8. Mystery guy shows up at teen girls' window again to try and convince her to go back to downloading but she says NO 7. Guy: "You still downloading?", Teen Girl: DOwnloading is stealin" Mr. Guy from Free Jackster: " I know you are afraid I am trying to show you a world without rules" Teen girl says no its wrong GOODBYE THE END [END PHO POST]
Forwarding a post from the pho digital music list (end of this message). A Newsforge item that also appeared about this today reads:
"--Disney Channel cartoon portrays music downloads as evil The Disney Channel cartoon series The Proud Family (http://disney.go.com/disneychannel/zoogdisney/shows/proudfamily/index_main .html ) aired an episode on Oct. 5 entitled EZ Jackster. In the storyline, EZ Jackster is a Napster-like site, and the show's little heroines get addicted to the service and play a part in the downfall of the music industry. Disney is one of the backers of the SSSCA proposed legislation that is scheduled for a hearing before Congress Oct. 25. <http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/22/1636242&mode=thread
The TV summary site, TV Tome, shows this synopsis of the episode in question:
"After Penny spends $125 on CDs with her five-cent salary, she meets a boy, Mega, who tells her about a napster-like website he made called EZ Jackster. All weekend she was sitting at the computer, downloading music from EZ Jackster. Finally, Dijonay comes over and asks what she was doing over the weekend. Penny asks Dijonay if she can keep a secret, knowing that she can't. Penny tells Dijonay to tell everyone she knows about EZ Jackster. Her telling everybody about EZ Jackster has a ripple-effect all around the world. From India to Africa to Suga Mama! But rap singer, Sir Paid-A-Lot is threatened by this because he got a five-cents salary instead of his million-dollar salary. But suddenly, after wrestling, the news interrupted the next program telling about EZ Jackster. It shows a house of where the EZ Jackster-spreader lives. Oscar comments how ugly the house is, not realizing it was their house. Trudy is mad at Penny for stealing music so she takes away her computer. Later, Penny gets a call from Mega, asking if she is still using EZ Jackster. Will Penny
In the next episode, Osama bin Laden makes a cameo, on Jackster's side of course. At 04:31 PM 10/22/01 -0700, Xeni Jardin wrote: listen to
her parents?"--"
[BEGIN PHO POST] -----Original Message----- From: PHO Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 12:06 AM Subject: pho: Tonight on Disney
Well Pho Pholks Lara Lavi here from Very Juicy Records
I relay this without passing judgement just sharing with you what I just saw this evening.
I turn on the TV with my little 2.5 year old to watch some Disney show about an African American teen girl (The Proud Family - animated show) and here is the story line ( I think I missed the first couple scenes but here is the general jist.
1. Girl working at her antiquated computer her dad gave her in her room.
2. Mystery guy (cool hip hop looking dude in black) shows up at her window and supplies her with an up to date computer, takes her into "the Matrix and shows her a web area called Free Jackster where she can get all the music she could ever want FOR FREE,
3. The girl asks if this is illegal and mystery guy explains it is our birthright to have free music, creativity should not have a price
4. Girl gets addicted to collecting free music, her obsession leads to telling all her friends. soon the site is getting millions of hits from kids to grandmothers.
5. Next scene at the The Wizard Record Label board room where "Sir Paid Alot" enters to complain his royalty check was only five cents. This alerts The Wizard (head of the label) that there is a retail problem he needs to look into.
6. Teen Girl's house is surrounded that night by police and press and she is arrested for illegal downloads, gets a warning,. The news makes it clear that millions of people can;'t be stopped, Parents take computer away from girl and explain why free downloads is STEALING. - kind of an abirdged explanation of how copyrights work.
6. Next scene, Asian Guy's retail record store is empty, guy is crying on the floor. Teen Girl who happens to work at the store show up to work, aisian guy fires her for supporting all the free downloads
7. Next scene charts showing record sales are down down down to nothing because people get the music for free
8. Mystery guy shows up at teen girls' window again to try and convince her to go back to downloading but she says NO
7. Guy: "You still downloading?", Teen Girl: DOwnloading is stealin" Mr. Guy from Free Jackster: " I know you are afraid I am trying to show you a world without rules" Teen girl says no its wrong GOODBYE
THE END
[END PHO POST]
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Xeni Jardin wrote:
In the next episode, Osama bin Laden makes a cameo, on Jackster's side of course.
Right. But in next week's episode, they rename it "Anthraxster."
No no no... That's the US Army's "thing": "The Army: looking for a few good spores." -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------
measl@mfn.org wrote:
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Xeni Jardin wrote:
In the next episode, Osama bin Laden makes a cameo, on Jackster's side of course.
Right. But in next week's episode, they rename it "Anthraxster."
No no no... That's the US Army's "thing":
"The Army: looking for a few good spores."
Gatorthrax: Is it in you? -- Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel 617-670-3793 "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato
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