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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. Three Things by mattrix2k · · Score: 5, Informative

    1 From the Article: Stressing the importance of copyright protection, the campaign begins with an unprecedented television "roadblock" on more than 35 network and cable outlets on the evening of July 24, with each network donating 30 seconds in the first prime time break.
    Beginning Friday, July 25, every major exhibitor in the country will donate time to play daily trailers on all screens in more than 5,000 theaters across the United States.
    Sounds like a pretty huge campaign, gonna dwarf the EFF's efforts by a big margin.

    2 Here is the website of the campaign. There's even some FUD: 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.

    3 The article first said (in the badly edited future) it was the RIAA doing it, when it's the MPAA...I think it was a case of RIAA on the brain. :)

  2. Good timing... by graveyhead · · Score: 5, Informative

    The EFF has just begun a pro file-sharing. It is an awareness campaign which effectively cuts the RIAA out of the loop, called "Let The Music Play". Details here.

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  3. Re:Can someone rip an AVI of that? by professortomoe · · Score: 5, Informative

    The commericals can be viewed here. Only one up for now, but the rest will be up later I suppose.

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  4. Arr Matey! Amazon Women on the Moon had it first! by TWX · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Why must Hollywood send me conflicting messages?"

    you need to see Amazon Women on the Moon if you want to see really conflicting. Some "pirates" seize the MCA/Universal ship and steal the movies and video discs. It's an absolutely hilarious segment...

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