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Just when you thought people couldn’t get our country any lamer, just like a secret agent man with a backup pistol on his ankle, the TV industry gave out its secret weapon:

Yes, they are called “Icil Divo”, and go take a look at the comments for this video as people ACTUALLY praised them. Now let’s give this a deep thought for a second and realize that no wonder people thought ripping off people’s ideas are okay, when the TV industry itself is just a compilation of lucky douchebags with brains no smarter than merely garbage cans, yet they call themselves creative.

Ironically, why we push ourselves to make Indonesia into a better country with better education, it is probably one of those countries where education is taught in a backward manner. My next question would be what other dumb shit have you people done today?

Another day, another case. It seems that Indonesia is nowhere near piracy shortage, even from as simple as photographs on a damn book cover. So here’s the book:

It is called 101 Resep Minuman Hangat – Segar – Dingin by Ny. Naela Sa’adah, and the publisher seems to be IN AzNa Books. I would say that this looks like a shady publisher somewhere there in Bantul. As you can see in the cover, you can find the same exact and original photograph here.

Hey, book publisher, book author, book layout designer or whoever the fuck you are that are actually involved, I know that you are probably monkeys, because you don’t seem to get the idea of “asking first for permission”. But you see, unlike you, we humans have this bit of courtesy that you and your puny brain could not comprehend. And I don’t think I need to talk nicely to you anyway, because frankly I don’t even think you’d understand what I’m saying. Never in my life I see monkeys speak the language of man. And oh, have you seen these relatives of yours in Uluwatu, Bali? Yes, just like you, they seem to enjoy snatching things that don’t belong to them.

As for everyone out there who saw this in your local bookstore, I recommend that we simply not buy it. Why? Two simple reasons. One, I’m sure we’d rather buy books created by humans instead of monkeys, and two, if we buy this thing, then we are supporting thieves.

So, closing this post, I think we can all confirm that when monkey sees, monkey wants, therefore monkey takes.

Photos courtesy of @ditut. And yes, at this point actual monkeys would probably get mad at me for generalizing them with these… whatever they are.

Remember when I said that Indonesia won’t beat any country anytime soon in creativity? Apparently my statement clarifies itself after I saw what appears to be the Indonesian copy of the hit TV-show “LOST”. Yes, we should’ve seen it coming.

As I said in Twitter earlier this evening, the “creators” of this TV series is a bunch of fags. Worthless fags. What else do you want to copy next, huh? Heroes? 30 Rock? Fringe? 24? What did you say? You guys have no brains? Well of course you don’t.

Why do stupid assholes keep on copying movies and TV shows like this? It’s simple, stupid TV programs lead to stupid audience, stupid audience lead to stupid, crappy and fake movies and TV shows. And the circle repeats itself.

So let’s see, what is the dumbest animal on Earth? Worms? Goldfish? Insects? Lemmings? WRONG! The answer is these dumbfucks who thought that copying people’s ideas is such a wonderful thing. I’m not going to ask them to be ashamed of themselves, because apparently shame is something that they do not have or born with.

Photo credit by Andrayogi.

I stumbled across this image that appears to be a promotional poster of an event held by a church’s youth service. Seeing this, I am truly embarrassed, especially as a Christian. This is an example on why we seem to hold this “double standard” on how we treat stealing as a sin. Didn’t we all agree that the seventh commandment is “You shall not steal”?

When I see this picture, all I can think of is that it’s a direct rip-off of Michael Jackson’s “This is It”. No matter how you see it, how you think that you can get away because you did this for a religious cause whatsoever, it’s still a blatant plagiarism. And no, this is not a parody. At all.

So if you think that this is a parody, then you must’ve got it all wrong, as a parody is created to mock, comment, or poke fun on the original version. If you call this a tribute, what tribute? Does God want you to steal other people’s work? Do you even think that He will have this slightest pride upon you for doing this? Does he give you such little and puny creativity that you must steal an idea? That is preposterous. I believe completely that even if it’s only an ugly text in a photocopied piece of paper, God would appreciate that so much more because you didn’t include stealing as a part of the process.

Hey, creator (or should I say copycat?) of this “He is It” poster, you think you’re more religious than I am? Because I mocked you down for your religious and faithful effort to please God? Please, don’t be such a hypocrite when all you can do is stealing people’s work. You should be ashamed of calling yourself faithful to God. Yes, God inspires the praise, but He certainly did not inspire you to steal. This has got to stop, one way or another.

Trismedia, the website of Tris Hartanto, a member of WebPM, one of the mailing lists that I joined was recently ripped off by a Chinese company called Modest-Studio. This is a case where most likely, someone used a software that can download a website as a whole, and then claimed it as theirs. This is disgusting, this studio ripped off all of the site’s contents including the portfolio.

But all rippers are stupid, they are bound to make mistakes even for the cleanest rip. Take a look at the studio’s phone number. It’s a Chinese cellular number, and yet the studio is located in Jakarta, Indonesia? And on this page, it even still has Tris’ name written on it, but with a Shenzhen address.

Being modest is probably a good thing, and it’s probably a good name for a start, but this is way out of line. Shame on you, Modest-Studio, you fucking piece of shit! And you call yourself a designer?