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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. Starving artists?!?!? by DocStoner · · Score: 5, Interesting


    Hell, I want to see a commercial that shows starving Americans that were the result of the greedy corporations moving their jobs overseas.

    How about that to "enlighten" people?

  2. What these commercials are really telling us... by luugi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There's a bunch of free movies out there! All you need is a computer and an internet connection!

    Now everyone will know that it's easy to get them.

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  3. Re:Pigs! by El · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Adbusters has been trying for years to run ads telling people not to buy crap... guess how much success they've had finding a network to carry the ads? Yes, they're willing to pay full rate card prices, but so far every major network has refused to air the ads. Good luck getting ant-MPAA ads on the air! (Hint: Unless you're willing to spend more on advertising the the movie studios, which spend at least $30 million promoting every new movie, media is going to follow the money and avoid pissing off bigger customers to makes a small group of "nuts" happy.)

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  4. That does it by Daikiki · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Says the chariman of the Fox group "We feel very strongly about the need to communicate that [. . .] illegally downloading movies is a blow to creativity"

    This fron the people responsible for the term 'foxing' a show. I think Matt Groenig, Joss Whedon, and Ben Edlund, among others, may have a thing or two to say about what exactly constitutes a blow to creativity. Hint: It's not piracy. It's Fox.

    I'm so mad I'm going to go off and dwonload a pirated copy of Daredevil and NEVER WATCH IT!

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