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{{comic | {{comic | ||
| number = 2405 | | number = 2405 | ||
− | | date = December | + | | date = December 31, 2020 |
| title = Flash Gatsby | | title = Flash Gatsby | ||
| image = flash_gatsby.png | | image = flash_gatsby.png | ||
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by a green light. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. It's hard to enumerate why the moments that the copyright expires and flash is no longer officially supported, are not exactly the same, but randall seems to expect us to do this. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | This comic unfolds over the last few seconds of 2020 and the first few seconds of 2021. [[Cueball]] is attempting to do something requiring the overlap of two eras that only abut | + | This comic unfolds over the last few seconds of 2020 and the first few seconds of 2021. [[Cueball]] is attempting to do something requiring the overlap of two eras that only abut. |
− | ''{{w|The Great Gatsby}}'' is a classic novel written by {{w|F. Scott Fitzgerald}} in 1925. Copyright law in the United States of America, where ''The Great Gatsby'' was first published, was retroactively extended several times in the 1990s and early 2000s, causing the copyright on ''The Great Gatsby'' to extend [https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/595567/why-the-great-gatsby-isnt-public-domain until the end of 2020]. In 2021, it finally | + | ''{{w|The Great Gatsby}}'' is a classic novel written by {{w|F. Scott Fitzgerald}} in 1925. Copyright law in the United States of America, where ''The Great Gatsby'' was first published, was retroactively extended several times in the 1990s and early 2000s, causing the copyright on ''The Great Gatsby'' to extend [https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/595567/why-the-great-gatsby-isnt-public-domain until the end of 2020]. In 2021, it will finally enter the public domain so that it will become legal to make a copy without violating copyright law. |
− | {{w|Adobe Flash}}, formerly known as Shockwave Flash, is a web plugin that was commonly used by many websites in the late 1990s and 2000s. | + | {{w|Adobe Flash}}, formerly known as Shockwave Flash, is a web plugin that was commonly used by many websites in the late 1990s and 2000s. However, it was repeatedly exploited by hackers, incurring heavy costs on {{w|Adobe Inc.|Adobe}} as they tried to update Flash against these attacks after rushing features out before stabilising them. Newer technologies are now able to provide comparable features with more compatibility, more community involvement, and less risk, so support for Flash is being phased out by most web browsers. Adobe is officially discontinuing Flash at the end of 2020. Therefore, a Flash version of ''The Great Gatsby'' will become legal at the very moment that everyone should stop using it. |
− | + | In line with Adobe's decision, [https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap#TOC-Upcoming-Changes Chrome is blocking Flash in January]. This will make [https://www.newgrounds.com/games entire internet culture histories spanning many years of making and engaging Flash experiences] unusable for most people. | |
− | In | + | In this comic, [[Cueball]] suggests that the withdrawal of Flash supports occurs a second or two after the copyright expiration rather than simultaneously with it, presumably implying that the withdrawal of Flash support takes human intervention rather than occuring automatically (e.g. via an at or cron job), whereas copyright expiration requires no action, it simply happens at a given point in time. |
− | + | The title wording does multiple work with a number of possible meanings to it. It's the 'Gatsby' book via the medium of the electronic Flash format. Because of the briefest of availability (at best, a single moment), it appears and disappears again 'in a flash'. Being 'flash' is a very apt description of the millionaire Gatsby character himself (just as 'flash the cash' is being ostentatious). And, if the endeavour is not actually as legitimate as hoped, the word has also refered to felonious behaviours and forged copies. | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
+ | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | + | :Off panel voice: 3... 2... 1... Happy New Year! | |
− | :Off | + | :Cueball: Ok, It’s up! |
− | :Cueball: | + | :Cueball: Annnnnd... support was pulled, it’s down again. |
− | :Cueball: Annnnnd ... support was pulled, it’s down again. | ||
− | :[Caption below the panel | + | :[Caption below the panel] |
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Fiction]] | [[Category:Fiction]] | ||
[[Category:Internet]] | [[Category:Internet]] | ||
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