South Park parodies iTunes terms and conditions
Summary: The ever-topical South Park took aim at Apple in the premiere episode of its 15th season last night. The show lampooned Locationgate and Apple's ridiculous 55-page iTunes terms and conditions.
The ever-topical South Park took aim at Apple in the premiere episode of its 15th season last night. The show lampooned Locationgate and Apple's ridiculous 55-page iTunes terms and conditions which Kyle casually agrees to -- without reading them first.
After "swiping his homework from his iPad to his iPhone" Kyle gets tracked and abducted by a crew of business casual g-men (complete with Apple clipboards and jackets). After being held in an Abu Ghraib-like cell with two other "accepters" they're converted into a Humancentipad live on stage at at a Stevenote.
Two more (somewhat NSFW) clips from the episode are posted over at TechCrunch.
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RE: South Park parodies iTunes terms and conditions
RE: South Park parodies iTunes terms and conditions
They also parodied the snob factor
Our new legal overlords
Alas, no episode of South Park or anything else will inform the Droidsters that they've agreed to the same terms.
RE: South Park parodies iTunes terms and conditions
RE: South Park parodies iTunes terms and conditions
I think that being portrayed as a controlling, authoritarian tyrant who wants to achieve complete control over its products and their users is a little more than just a light hearted 'parody'....it was in fact a fairly savage attack which demonstrates that concern over Apple's tendency towards totalitarianism is starting to become mainstream.
RE: South Park parodies iTunes terms and conditions
What concern? I do not have any concerns, maybe because I do not have an iPad? I don?t know, I could see the humor, and I do not think that people are that simple minded as to believe what they see on a show like SouthPark.
I wonder if you can watch this on an iPad?
You know, with Apple's policy of "policing" what is acceptable for the iPhone and iPad.
:)
RE: South Park parodies iTunes terms and conditions
Agreed, Doctor..... the fact is that the increasing 'known where you are every moment of the day' crap that the phone companies and Apple are doing is getting me very concerned. They should have a way to turn off all this location awareness stuff and/or not activate it until a person specifically says that they want to be monitored 24/7.
RE: South Park parodies iTunes terms and conditions
Let's see if Apple thinks it's funny. They made Ellen Degeneres apologize publicly on her show for a parody that was far, far milder than that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uma-p8c-r0A
As long as they don't use Apple's trademarked logo
they're cool.
RE: South Park parodies iTunes terms and conditions
Anybody with any common sense at all knows better than to fuck with the Comedy Channel or with Adult Swim. SP parodied Mormonism and nothing happened. SP even parodied *Scientology* and got away with it! Fighting a parody is like wrestling the tar-baby: you get yourself slimed and gain nothing. Fight a parody and that fight only leads to further parodies of the fight itself. Apple could never win, any more than Mormonism or Scientology could have. If SP can fuck over those two groups and get away with it, then it can fuck over Apple and get away with it.
Wrong kind of popular
it depends on what the parody is. Getting parodied for your charitable giving in a fun way is one thing, getting it for a "terms and condition" thing isn't so much.
RE: South Park parodies iTunes terms and conditions
RE: South Park parodies iTunes terms and conditions
Why...
RE: South Park parodies iTunes terms and conditions
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RE: South Park parodies iTunes terms and conditions