[karajorma]

Next time, buy an official copy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17491344

Kazakhstan's shooting team has been left stunned after a comedy national anthem from the film Borat was played at a medal ceremony at championships in Kuwait instead of the real one.

The team asked for an apology and the medal ceremony was later rerun.

The team's coach told Kazakh media the organisers had downloaded the parody from the internet by mistake.

The song was produced by UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen for the film, which shows Kazakhs as backward and bigoted.

[StarSlayer]

Props to the girl who won, she kept it together pretty well considering how absurd it must have been.

[BloodEagle]

I object to the thread title. 

[karajorma]

One of the dangers of piracy is that you might not download what you planned to download. If you're going to pirate stuff you need to be really careful about that. These guys obviously just did a search for Kazak National Anthem and downloaded the first thing that seemed to work.

The simple fact is that if they'd gone out and bought it from an official source they'd never have had the problem.

[Spoon]

The simple fact is that if they'd had listened to what they downloaded before using it on the ceremony they'd never have had the problem.
Common sense is hard to come by these days, had they gone out and bought whatever there is no telling if they would have gotten the correct one either.

[karajorma]

Well if you buy 100 National Anthems, you at least have someone else to blame if the one you play is the wrong one, wouldn't you agree?

[NGTM-1R]

Well if you buy 100 National Anthems, you at least have someone else to blame if the one you play is the wrong one, wouldn't you agree?

And yourself for not checking, still.

[karajorma]

Undoubtedly, still it's a better to be able to say "It's not all my fault"

[jr2]

I don't think most national anthems are copyrighted, just saying... certain artists maybe copyright their performance of it, but I'm not sure if that's legal.  Isn't it 'public domain'?  I have to research this.

[NGTM-1R]

I don't think most national anthems are copyrighted, just saying...

I think the point of them is to be public domain, so...

In theory certain performances of them might be copyrighted, but I don't think the government in question would be terribly happy with that.

[karajorma]

Well, let's hope they never check Amazon.com then.

[Mongoose]

Any particular performance/publishing/what-have-you of a public domain work can be copyrighted, but as it's public domain, there's nothing at all preventing you from generating your own copy of said work and offering it for free.  What you're really paying for in these cases is the packaging, not the content...anyone can release a free e-book of the complete Sherlock Holmes works, but if you want a nice leatherbound edition, you'll have to shell out.

[Davros]

The spoof song praises Kazakhstan for its superior potassium exports and for having the cleanest prostitutes in the region.

fantastic....

[Dragon]

That's hilarious. Sounds like Poland is not the only country in which government is so backwards that it's officials don't really know how the internet works. Even I check the song I'm trying to download to make sure it's what I'm looking for, and of acceptable quality.

[BengalTiger]

Sounds like Poland is not the only country in which government is so backwards....

Welcome to Earth.

[Dragon]

Well, of course there are countries that have no internet at all. But I was thinking about countries which actually matter in the world. Most civilized countries I hear news from have some knownledge of how internet works. Oh wait. That doesn't include Poland.