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MPAA to Launch Anti-Piracy Commercials

Posted by michael on from the need-more-money-to-roll-in dept.

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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  1. please don't confuse me! by sweeney37 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

    1. Re:please don't confuse me! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Please report to the ministry of love immediately, you obviously have something wrong with you.

      War is peace
      Freedom is slavery
      Ignorance is strength.

    2. Re:please don't confuse me! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I didnt see it, its rated ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

    3. Re:please don't confuse me! by Elvisisdead · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's funny. I bought a copy of Pirates of the Carribean from a guy on the street last Friday. No comment on the piracy lesson there....

      --

      "Want in one hand and spit in the other and see which one fills up first." - My Dad
    4. Re:please don't confuse me! by Gherald · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh, I see the problem now. You cheated by actually participating in a joint venture with real life people.

      I was proceeding on the assumption that everyone on /. is a loner =)

      --
      The unofficial /. digest
  2. Easy answer by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just don't pirate movies from the starving artists -- Stick to pirating movies from the filthy rich ones.

    --

  3. Re:hmmm... by FauxReal · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    --
    Deltron 3030 - Virus (music video)
  4. Prince of Thieves by PseudoThink · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  5. Re:hmmm... by Creep73 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. This is Dan by Keltus · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

    1. Re:This is Dan by kzinti · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

      This is the Hollywood studio that went broke over poor ticket sales because of the AVI that Dan downloaded.

      This is the actress who can't afford to buy crack because of the movie studio that went broke because of the AVI that Dan downloaded.

      This is the crack dealer who's starving because his customers went broke because of the AVI that Dan downloaded.

      This is the drug kingpin who was assassinated because he couldn't buy guns because of the lost drug revenue because of the AVI that Dan downloaded.

      This is the Betty Ford Clinic therapist who's been laid off because of the lack of business because of the AVI that Dan downloaded.

      Dan is one influential son of a bitch.

  7. Re:Three Things by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."
  8. Re:Cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would be hard to sell those gals as "starving" since they spend a considerable amount of time with their mouths full :)

  9. Here's the commercial by JustAnotherReader · · Score: 4, Funny
    Hi, I'm Blind Melon Daquari from the band "Blind Melon Daquri and the Contenental Breakfasts all star blues review" I just sold half a million CDs. But am I rich? No I'm not. And why is that? It's because of music piracy.

    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

  10. Quote from the ad tells who's to blame by cfish · · Score: 4, Funny

    Quote from the set painter in the ad:

    "(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. ... because we are not million dollar employees, at all. We are lucky if we can put together 12 straight months..."

    So the movie producers admit they are ripping off the workers? The workers get the leftover, which is nothing.

    (Nice orange mustache, though. )

  11. I got copies of the ads for download! by Colonel+Blimp · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll be selling the ads on DVD on the corner of Broadway and 34th tommorow morning. Ask for Vito....