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MPAA to Launch Anti-Piracy Commercials
cfish writes "The MPAA is launching expensive 30 second TV commercials to preach about movie piracy. Featuring starving artists in the movie industry."
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But wait, I saw Pirates of the Caribbean yesterday and the moral at the end was something like, "Sometimes you need a little piracy in order to do the right thing."
But the MPAA says it's bad. Why must Hollywood send me conflicting messages?
Mike
Just don't pirate movies from the starving artists -- Stick to pirating movies from the filthy rich ones.
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You no the ironic thing about all this? You just KNOW someone will copy these commercials and throw them up on Kazaa and such.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
Let's hope the ads focus on those film stars most affected by video piracy: Jenna Jameson, Devon, Asia Carerra, etc.
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I wonder if they will count the costs of the commercials in the money they are loosing every year to piracy... You can be certain they're counting that and the hidden cost of hosting multiple "consultation sessions" in the Bahamas with their stripper/secretaries.
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Idiocy likes this makes me thankful that I am boycotting television. Why subject yourself to mindless drek filled with awful advertising when you can have the Internet? The Internet is much better.
I even found a service called KaZaA Gold. It's like the KaZaA you leeches use, but it's legit. For just $1.50 a month, I can download all the content I want -- including Hollywood films.
Why can't Hollywood embrace the Internet, instead of trying to shut it down?
A new Hollywood blockbuster starring Kevin Costner, about a lone movie pirate and his merry #movies men, who rip movies from the rich to drive click-through web site traffic to support the poor.
I can't wait to grab that off Kazaa and share with my friends!!
hey, that sounds pretty good. could you upload it to kazaa ;)
!(^((ri)|(mp))aa$)
Two kids are sitting at a computer. They are both listening to the CD. One says to the other, "Hey, that's a real cool CD." The other says, "Say, if you have a blank CD-R, I can burn you a copy." They put the CD-R into the machine. Suddenly...
...uh, I mean CD!" ...
.wma video of it at http://static.hugi.is/video/fyndin/dctf-1.wmv (dial-up user warning: it's a 15MB download).
Some black rapper reject from the PJ's jumps out onto the desktop screen and starts to rap. "Don't copy...don't copy that floppy!
For anyone who doesn't get the joke, there was a video released back in 1992 by (I think) the SIAA titled "Don't copy that floppy." It is the funniest 8 minute public service announcement video you will ever seen in your life. A rapper does this rap chanting "Don't copy...don't copy that floppy" after two kids try and use a Mac to copy a "cool game" onto another floppy disk. You just have to see it to believe it. You can watch a
Steve: Hey bob it's about time we sent out those stats on how much money we are loosing to file sharing. Could you get me some numbers.
Bob: No problem Steve. I figure we should have had a 25% increase in sales this year however those darn file swapers kept our increase to a modest 8%. Make sure the reported numbers reflect that.
Bob: And Steve while you are at it. Could you take a few million of the money laying around and make a comersial about how much file swapping is hurting the industry.
Thanks
Steve: No Problem. I will get right on it.
This is the AVI that Dan downloaded.
This is the sharer who hosted the AVI that Dan downloaded.
This is the cracker who sold ripped the AVI that the sharer hosted that Dan downloaded.
And this is movie star who shot herself for losing the money.
Downloading AVIs supports terrible things. If you download AVIs you might too.
Brought to you by the MPAA
Bob needs to give me a few bucks so I can buy myself a good spell checker. 'commercial' hrm
And have they considered that they will be giving ideas the 200,000,000 Americans who didn't even know that downloading movies was possible?
The nature of "peer-to-peer" file sharing sites like eDonkey, Gnutella, KaZaA, etc., open your computer to destructive viruses and worms and annoying pop-ups.
(...)
Network users have a back door to your hard drive while you're online, thereby seeing your personal, private information, such as bank records, social security number, etc.
Which is why the RIAA recommends you use Open Source P2P software such as gtk-gnutella and gnucleus. Remember kids:
"You can't hide a trojan
when the source code is open".
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
...if it stars Kevin Costner, then it has to make money, right?
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
>> ...the terrorists have already won!
Yeah, you can bet Osama doesn't use bittorrent.
There is just nothing better than having a coward point out your mistakes for you. :)
...as a starving Bill Gates in an anti MS piracy ad?
I get $1.20 off of every CD I sell. With 12 songs on my CD it means every time you pirate a song it cost me 10 cents. For every hundred thousand of your downloads I lose $10,000 !
Of course, my record company gave me an advance of $100,000 that I have to pay back. And then they made me pay for the recording studio where I recorded my own music. That was another $100,000.
Oh wait, They also made me pay for their mid level marketers to pay that money-that-looks-like-but-isn't-really-payola to Clear Channel to get my songs on the radio. That was another $200,000. And of course I have to pay the rest of the band. Not to mention the cost of going out to tour to support this new CD.
Oh yeah, and I don't even own my own songs any more, or my voice, or the recordings of those songs, or the cover art, or anything. In fact, my music is now legally known as "Work for hire". And if I don't like how I'm being treated I can't leave my record label without their permission.
Oh, and the record company that sold those albums? They made about 3 million dollars of profit.
So how am I suppose to pay off my $400,000 debt to the record company if you keep pirating my songs? So stop it. mmm-kay?
Thank you
If they put these commercials right behind the FBI warning on those VHS tapes and DVDs and didn't let you fast-forward through them, I bet that would deter all those scurvy pirates.
...for you to pirate. (C'mon, you know you would...)
the movie industry has starving artists? Where are these people, the north pole? like give me a break.
-- DuckWing
is it going to look like this?
http://static.hugi.is/video/fyndin/dctf-1.wmv
Quote from the set painter in the ad:
... because we are not million dollar employees, at all. We are lucky if we can put together 12 straight months..."
"(piracy issue) well I don't believe it affects the producers. I mean it does affect them but it's miniscure to the way it affects me.
So the movie producers admit they are ripping off the workers? The workers get the leftover, which is nothing.
(Nice orange mustache, though. )
Then cut to an assembly line worker at Sony. "My company paid the DVDCCA license fee, in order to get a piece of the DVD player market. If it weren't for useful legislation like DMCA, you would be able to buy a DVD player from just anybody. That's not fair, and it's un-American."
Then cut to a a guy who sells timebase correctors: "When you pirate, you make it harder for the guys in LA to buy legislation that requires your equipment to implement Macrovision, the technology that keeps your video devices from displaying a bright picture on your TV when they're connected upstream from the VCR. If everyone did that and the laws were no longer funded, then nobody would buy my TBCs anymore. I would be out of a job."
Then cut to a grave headstone that says, "R.I.P. 1937" and a voiceover: "Though I died over sixty five years ago, thanks to the Sonny Bono extension act, my life still has meaning and I have incentive to have written all my stories in the 1920s. When you pirate, you undermine the funding for the laws that makes this possible. Don't let my spirit die in 2018. Don't pirate."
Then cut to Lars Ulrich: "As you probably guesses, The Industry is working on a successor to audio CDs as you know them. These will require proprietary licenses not just to play, but to produce as well. This will help to raise the barrier to music publishing. You don't want just any band to be able to publish music in the same format as the big labels, do you? The record companies help you, by filtering out the bad bands so that you are left with just the cream of the crop, such as my recent 'St. Anger' which all music afficionatos agree is a masterpiece. When you pirate, you undermine the format, thereby undermining this useful selection process."
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
...that someone would have taken the opportunity to take a jab at the MPAA and point out the error in the big splash graphic: "You're threatening the livlihood (sic) of thousands", but then I realized that it would imply that the typical Slashdot reader would
a. have read the article, and
b. know how to spell
"Featuring starving artists in the movie industry."
Hey, We'll see Macaulay Culkin again!
I'll be selling the ads on DVD on the corner of Broadway and 34th tommorow morning. Ask for Vito....
I think the best summary of their case is the fact that both of their examples of The Magic of Movies!!! are from the '70s. Why yes, I do remember the chills I got from Jaws. That's probably why I got so depressed after you people made a third goddamn Mummy movie. Wait, no, you put the head of a wrestler onto a giant flying scorpion. That'd reduce me to a blubbering wreck even if my viewing experience were limited to The Cable Guy, and for that matter, every goddamn movie since 1989.
Amount Lost to Pirates: 1.5 Million Dollars
Price Spent on Advertising: 10 Million Dollars
The Look on the face of the 16 year old kid the MPAA busted: Priceless
It'll be just like Americas war on drugs, you certainly can't buy drugs in America anymore can you?