12/10/2005

Animal Crossing Speaks Out Against the RIAA

The folks at Nintendo have included a jab at the Record Industry in Animal Crossing: Wild World for the DS. It amused me anyway.




This can be seen by listening to K.K. Slider's song in the basement of the museum. After listening to the entire song he will give you a copy of the song and the above dialogue takes place.


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Haha!

Awesome.
 
kewl
 
Meh, artists have said that about every patron or sponsor for centuries. Hardly a "jab at the RIAA". You're reading into it too much.
 
well they also didnt show the part where k.k. slider said hes giving you a "bootleg copy" it is a jab at the RIAA.
 
that was totally awesome!!
 
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.... wtf was that?
 
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Ur so gay Cheesegod -_-;;
 
Hah! That's hysterical. Nintendo's never done anything to prosecute NES/SNES/N64 rom distribution, have they?

-Jonathan
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Actually, last year some guys made these "Power Play" things that looked like N64 controllers that had all the NES games or most of them on it, and never got permission from Nintendo. They shut them down. But besides that, I don't know.
 
yams yams yams yams yams yams yams yams yams yams yams yams
 
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Digg 0wnz Cheese God hahaha
 
"Nintendo's never done anything to prosecute NES/SNES/N64 rom distribution, have they?"

Actually, they did for a while, but recently they've stopped.
 
cheesegod this is spokker jones and your site is very nice
 
I FOR ONE AM APALLED BY THIS FLAGRANT AND EGREGIOUS VIOLATION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STANDARDS.

I PROPOSE A UNILATERAL BOYCOTT OF ANIMAL CROSSING DS
 
You misspelled "against."
 
lizard dude, artists have _never_ said this about patrons or sponsors, because it doesn't apply to those: patrons or sponsors are willing to pay a certain sum to support the creation of art, but they don't put a price on art, they don't dictate how much you have to pay to experience the work. it's not a jab at the RIAA in particular, but at all big media conglomerates (the term 'industry' says it quite plainly) that supress free creativity if they don't get a sizeable cut.
 
I am going to buy Animal Corssing just for this!
 
This is a wonderful thing. Thanks, Nintendo. Because music industry fat cats SUCK!!!
 
There's a basement in the museum?
 
"There's a basement in the museum?"

Just like at the Alamo.

When you first go into the museum take a left straight down the steps. There's an overpriced coffee shop down there, and if it's Saturday night, so will K.K. Slider.

And, just to clear things up, I do not seriously think Nintendo id about to lead an anti-RIAA movement or anything. I just found it funny and decided to post it.
 
You can remove any other comments (this included) but please, PLEASE, do NOT remove yams' comment. It was (slightly wrongly) quoted in that New York Times article. Therefore, yams pwns all.
 
Don't worry, the yams are here to stay. For some reason I found it amusing, as well as the fact that it was included in The Times article as well.
 
It is sating that K.K. wants to just be a wandering musician, no magers or corparte deals. Also,

Cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese.
 
hooray for free music
 
K.K. Rox!!!Cats SUCK BIG TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I LOVE AC:Wild World!!!& Kingdom Hearts 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
KH2 KH2 KH2 KH2!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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YAY BABY!!
 
YAY BABY
 
I LOVE ROXAS SOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!
 
why do you think this is funny? you guys have a very bad sense of humor. all he means is that he wants to give you his music for free. and to whomever said that they thought it was funny when he said he gave you a bootleg, you have problems.
 
I agree with K.K
 
Umm roxas luver get out of dis site cuz itz about Nintendo ds not ps2 sheesh u r stupid
 
Late, obviously, but oh well.

The "bootleg" is not a copy of the song, but rather something like the MUZAK version of K.K. Slider's songs. The boots suck in comparison to the live versions, there aren't even any vocals. It's like those awful MIDI ringtones we had to deal with in the beginning of personalized cell phone technology. Maybe the words indicate a potential jab, but there's no real jabbing going on in this (awesome) game.
 
I love k.k slider and his songs especially "i love you".If you have animal crossing you will know he is there on saturday's at 7:30pm.he is well worth seeing and will give you a cd at the end if you have a boom box..go on see him...
 
Haha, nice. I myself use LimeWire all the time :D

So, I got AC:WW a year ago, loved that line from the start...

*Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb rhubard*

KUDOS.
 
what do you type to see this?
 
Now we are waiting for the echo...

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