Associated Press DRM diagram demystified (with cuss-words)

In the comments for today's earlier post, Associated Press claims to have discovered magic anti-news-copying beans, BB reader Dequeued points us to this marvellous remix of the Associated Press's DRM system (click through for the whole glorious NSFW thing!).

AP: Protect, Point, Pay

[#1 posted by kaosmonkey, July 29, 2009 8:51 AM]

Eat a dick, Helvetica!

Mad lols

[#2 posted by Meteornotes, July 29, 2009 9:05 AM]

That was amazing.

[#3 posted by nerd, July 29, 2009 9:06 AM]

Seems sensible, I say we go for it.

The irony may not be translating, but I'd like to point out that Arial is considered by true font ballers to be a ripoff of Helvetica, with nearly identical glyph dimensions.

[#4 posted by zikman, July 29, 2009 9:08 AM]

some fucking clip art....

now that they mention it, what typeface is that?

[#5 posted by Duffong, July 29, 2009 9:11 AM]

I thought the original was confusing. This is just reinforcing that I have no clue what's going on.

[#6 posted by Anonymous, July 29, 2009 9:12 AM]

I love it when a burn is this severe - so rarely do I get to laugh and wince simultaneously.

[#7 posted by Anonymous, July 29, 2009 9:25 AM]

beautiful.

[#8 posted by kyderdog, July 29, 2009 9:27 AM]

It has a huge freaking analog hole in it.... If I can read it I can retype it....

[#9 posted by Anonymous, July 29, 2009 10:44 AM]

Unicorns go into a chromed oil drum? LOL!

[#10 posted by rarr, July 29, 2009 11:02 AM]

@8 To fix this your eyes will be gouged out with a spoon before you get a chance to read it.

[#11 posted by KurtMac, July 29, 2009 11:16 AM]

LOL. I thought the same thing on the original about the beer keg/radioactive waste barrel at the end of the flow chart. I still don't know WTF it is suppose to be!

[#12 posted by MrsBug, July 29, 2009 11:31 AM]

I love this so much I want to marry it.

Oh, and Rarr @#9, genius, bro.

[#13 posted by Anonymous, July 29, 2009 11:43 AM]

Kurtmac: it's a "data-stack", the soulless corporate flowchart symbol of "stored data".

[#14 posted by Avram / Moderator, July 29, 2009 12:30 PM]

I thought it was one of those barrels from Doom. The AP can shoot at it to blow up bloggers who try to send readers their way.

[#15 posted by Anonymous, July 29, 2009 6:06 PM]

The bullet points at the bottom are the same! I thought that "Royalty Settlement" etc.. was a joke until I saw the original:
http://www.ap.org/media/images/APnewsregistry.jpg

[#16 posted by Anonymous, July 29, 2009 8:43 PM]

So how does the AP make money? I don't get it.

[#17 posted by teapot, July 29, 2009 11:59 PM]

The AP are really stoopid (they deserve that spelling) if they really spent "millions of dollars" on this technology. Did anyone tell them about OCR (optical character recognition)?

If you can scan a page and use OCR to get editable text, then why couldnt people just do a screen cap and then run it through OCR? .... They could.

Nice waste of money AP, you have made a new enemy. Anyone remember those little problems of MASSIVE WORLD HUNGER AND POVERTY??? ...Probably a better way to spend millions of dollars.

Just like I downloaded & shared all of Metallica's albums when they sued napster (even though I mostly hate their music) - I will now work to abuse and mess with AP's copyrights wherever I can.

[#18 posted by Anonymous, July 30, 2009 2:08 AM]

How does the AP make money? Mostly from subscriptions from other media and organisations that pay them for the right to publish or use their stories. News agencies don't sell ad space themselves.

I work for a smaller national news agency in Europe and am beginning to feel like a polar bear on a rapidly shrinking iceberg ...

[#19 posted by Axx, July 30, 2009 11:10 AM]

LMAO. Wow. I'm glad I first heard about this text-based DRM from this diagram.