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Don't Copy That Floppy! Gets a Sequel
theodp writes "Back in 1992, the SIIA released Don't Copy That Floppy!, a goofy video in which anti-piracy rapper MC Double Def DP convinces a young lad not to copy a game by appealing to his sense of right and wrong. Now, to address what it calls 'new generations and new temptations,' the SIIA has uploaded a trailer for a new anti-piracy rap video — Don't Copy That 2 — that will be released this summer. To underscore the video's it's-not-just-a-copy-it's-a-crime message, the new film is a tad darker than the original. A smug teen who's downloading files from 'Pirates Palace' and 'Tune Weasel' finds his world turned upside down when automatic weapons-toting government agents break down the door and take his Mom away in handcuffs. The teen finds himself in a prison jumpsuit forced to tattoo shirtless adult inmates who eventually turn on him, physically attack him, and make him run for his life back to his jail cell (image summarizing his plight)."
...with scare tactics!
Seriously though, the first DCTF was happy and upbeat (and for good reason, as many people simply didn't know that copying a floppy was piracy). What happened to that feel? Are we really at a point where we're so influenced by the RIAA/MPAA's ways of doing things that SIIA's first sequel in 17 years immediately jumps to scare tactics?
Maybe it's just me, but I see this quickly becoming one of those "You wouldn't steal a car" type of things - jumping to such an extreme that it becomes a satire piece.
Anyone got a link to the torrent?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGXavXZwRcg From the IT crowd (BBC) - an anti piracy ad. Except its for films. yet its a better video.
Forgive the youtube link, but a British TV show called "The IT Crowd" did a pretty good anti-piracy warning.
Is it just me or does MC Double Def "DP" sound like a black porn star's stage name?
A smug teen who's downloading files from 'Pirates Palace' and 'Tune Weasel' finds his world turned upside down when automatic weapons-toting government agents break down the door and take his Mom away in handcuffs. The teen finds himself in a prison jumpsuit forced to tattoo shirtless adult inmates who eventually turn on him
Huh, that's funny. Last I checked you normally don't get jail time for copyright infringement. Search warrants? For your computer maybe. Serving papers for a court date? Sure. Arrested on the spot? Don't think so. Jail time? Not to my knowledge. The only legal consequence the SIIA lists on their site are "significant fines for copyright infringement." Unless the kid was uploading unreleased Guns N' Roses tracks or orchestrating the huge operation of The Pirate Bay I don't think he'll be doing time.
... or realizes that it bothers his constituents that lives are being ruined over something that maybe isn't so serious that a person should be financially hobbled for the rest of their life or next seven years from bankruptcy or whatever results. Huge fines are enough to stop me from copyright violations but lets face it, you're not going to jail if you do it. You're not a hardened criminal with a rap sheet serving time next to murderers if you're convicted of file sharing. You're most likely going to settle out of court and be financially stunted.
Maybe they should do a little more research before they imply that you will end up in a gulag tattooing cartoon characters on convicts?
Don't get me wrong, I'd be fine with the kid (assuming he's 18+) getting a letter in the mail saying he has to appear in court and then a slow five year montage ending with him settling out of court and not being able to go to college or only attending a community college. That'd be pretty realistic. I still don't agree with it but that's how it works these days. Who knows? Maybe the over emphasized results will backfire on them and the general populace will see how unrealistic the charges are for copyright violation? I mean, that's not going to change until a politician looks bad taking a sack of money in campaign contributions
My work here is dung.
Can anyone provide a link to confirm that the SIIA is actually making this? The trailer jumped the shark when the kid started spinning the CD endlessly on his finger, so my first impression would be that it is a parody of the original.
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The message I get from this is, "Wow, movies and music sound like dangerous stuff. I better avoid them at all costs whether purchased legally or not."
Cory Doctorow talking about cloud computing makes as much sense as George W Bush talking about electrical engineering.
it's RIAA-porn.
to the "federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison" scene from Office Space? This is meant as humor, right?
Because we've seen that the RIAA will go after your family if they don't think they can get any money out of you; regardless of whether or not any of you even own a computer!
endorsing prison rape of children? Because that is what it looks like. There is a better way to fight software piracy.
Reforge the Fourth International, world party of socialist revolution!
If you make copies of intellectual property, liscensed video games ans software programs, you will be erased with state violence.
It is okay to kidnap and possibly kill people with state violence for things they do with ideas.
How else can he afford another solid gold Humvee? And diamond studded swimming pools? These things don't grow on trees.
> Huh, that's funny. Last I checked you normally don't get jail time for copyright infringement. Search warrants? For your computer maybe. Serving papers for a court date? Sure. Arrested on the spot? Don't think so. Jail time? Not to my knowledge. The only legal consequence the SIIA lists on their site are "significant fines for copyright infringement." Unless the kid was uploading unreleased Guns N' Roses tracks or orchestrating the huge operation of The Pirate Bay I don't think he'll be doing time.
Google the NET Act. Basically, it seems to have been intended to make certain types of file sharing into commercial piracy (and those have a prison sentence). I believe it added a clause saying that if you give someone infringing works with the expectation of getting some in return, that makes the activity "commercial." And this was passed in the days before BitTorrent, so I don't think it's ever been enforced quite like that. More likely they were going after big warez groups/ratio sites where you do things like that.
Anyhow, I don't think anyone has actually *gotten* jail time for what most of us would think of as non-commercial file sharing, but that doesn't mean it's impossible what with the copyright czars and RIAA lawyers in this administration...
A backlash against this nonsense is stirring and the RIAA types are making sure they have a firm grip on our legislators ears and wallets ahead of time. That's also why they want to go after the recording of courtroom audio, etc. Too bad they don't know about the Streisand Effect. A lot of people who were ignoring those recordings might start listening to them...
We need some public service announcement raps to improve the morals of the *IAA.
Don't litigate our children, the deceased, and the poor.
That song is just a dolla, not $80K, not more.
Get a businees model, for ya internets and tubes.
Or we goin' digital, without ya freakin fools.
Vanilla Ice available ?
The one of the news tickers in the video is describing the impeachment of the governor of Illinois a while back ... will the same thing happen to you if you pirate music?
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Thank God they got to me before I took a wrong turn in life!
This one's much better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32wmepTVM3I
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
Woah! I just learned that you can copy digital media!!!
To blatantly and deliberately mislead the public into believing something is a crime when it isn't.
"Production of propaganda with an intent to mislead" or something.
I bet it's already illegal in Germany.
How we know is more important than what we know.
I think I know where they get their inspiration. The description sounds just like the video for Weird Al's "Don't Download This Song": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz-grdpKVqg
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Yeah, watching that trailer my first response is "wow, they're douchefucks for doing that to someone over some media."
Don't copy that floppy was funny and appealed to your sense of right and wrong/interest in supporting content creators so they'll be around to produce more good stuff. This just sounds like trying to scare people into line. Which can work, but it does rather rob you of any moral high ground when your argument is "or we'll fuck you up, put you in prison, and go after your family."
Oh, yeah, from the perpetual pro-pot propaganda pushers.
Who would like everyone to believe that every hour of every day, in every city in every state in this country, there are evil, evil, police officers armed to the teeth kicking down doors of houses and apartments based on individual rumors of the presence of pot. Where of course then the innocent pot smokers are immediately hauled off to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison and sentenced to 5*10^30 years in prison for possession and repeatedly assaulted and ass-raped by gorillas, ostriches, elephants, and of course their cell mates - all of whom are convicted serial killers who will be released next week.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Do what's best for the corporation... or we'll throw your ass in jail.
What a joke...
Regardless of what it is about, it is the worst short film/clip/propaganda I have seen in a long time. That includes local (Costa Rican) commercials and Latin American soap operas .....
OMG .... shame on you for making me watch this
but when the rapping started they lost me.
A selection of U.S. companies from the SIIA Member Directory: Accenture, Adobe, AOL, Barclays, Bloomberg, CNN, Charles Schwab, Citi, Cognizant, CollabNet, College Board, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, Google, IBM, Infosys, Intel, Intuit, JPMorgan Chase, Lazard Freres, McGraw Hill, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Novell, Oracle, Reuters, Salesforce, SAP, SAS, Standard & Poor's, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, Time Warner, UPI, The Wall Street Journal, Wells Fargo Bank.
Yes, it's almost spot-on like the video from the IT crowd, yet it's from the same creators of DCTF. You are shown police state tactics with a scene that reminds me of Brazil.
We have come a long way, America.
That kid is named Blake, right?
They are intimating that you can end up in Federal "Pound-You-In-The-Ass" Prison for making a dupe. Nice! The industry just needs to realize that it's free advertising and treat it as such instead of endorsing child rape.
-Kinsey
Both illegal downloaders and the music industry know that it is pretty much impossible to sue every filesharer. This knowledge is basically what keeps filesharers going. The only reason that organizations like the SIAA sue individual parties for ridiculous sums of money is to induce fear in the overwhelming majority of filesharers and thereby cut down filesharing as much as possible by pure psychology. Coupling this video with the real-life verdicts carried out on a few of the millions of filesharers will effectively cause many eleven-year-olds to piss their pants in fear and not download that album. What the SIAA doesn't realize that the average eleven-year-old that will actually be intimidated by this will probably not BUY any albums either, and that almost all filesharers will simply see through the scare tactics and filesharing will live on. Therefore, what this amounts to is just a ton of money wasted by the SIAA on a stupid music video that will at best serve to entertain the public on youtube. The SIAA made a good move with their first video from the 90s; they appealed to people's sense of morality, detailing how much work is put into a game and why it is worth it to support the creators. Though appealing to conscience wouldn't stop all filesharing, people would at least feel moved to pay for games (or other media) that they enjoyed, supporting an industry of quality. I do not know why they have resorted to useless fearmongering instead.
This represents Utopia for the RIAA and MPAA and SIIA weasels.
The new United States: Violence and corruption is entirely acceptable.
Pay taxes to kill Iraqis? Sure.
Many hours spent playing violent video games? Sure.
Government run by thieving banks? Sure.
Floppy Copy YOU!
Or like the anti-drug commercials that aired immediately after 9-11 that attempted to link smoking a joint with supporting Osama Bin Laden.
Seeing this really just made me think of "Don't Download This Song" by Weird Al, and that was a clear mockery of the system.
Anything can be found funny, from a certain point of view.
anti-piracy advocates should be banned! paid by our taxes to solve a unsolvable thing, it's not even a crime as not everyone is doing it. and saying it is so is just criminalizing others, and this pointing fingers will cause people to join torrent sites and promote piracy. the more you prosecute the more people will pirate, as counter productive as the war on drugs (also paid by your tax money...) the majority of people buy (end of story).
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how our tax money is put to good use in these perilous times with the portrayal of a swat-like raid on a software pirate. You know because he probably spends the money he saves, by pirating software, on assault weapons, hardcore drugs, and danky craigslist girls.
The IT Crowd was my very first thought!
It's sad though to see this VERY VERY satani *cough* satireistic movie become reality.
And doesn't the government get at least a little mad? Last time I checked their prison system wasn't supposed to be depicted like that...
Are they actually serious?
We've seen these tactics before - it's the same thing with people trying to stop us from shoplifting. What a bunch of douchbags. Walmart has plenty of money. And they use slave-labor in third-world countries. I should be allowed to stick it to the man. Screw them!
This video isn't about piracy at all. It's the perfect police state scenario, this ought to scare all those kids into voting for Libertarians instead of Democrats and Republicans.
Real operating systems come on torrents...and their organizers encourage you use them!
In Windows, as with the case of TCP/IP, it was a foreign body to Win95. Someone made "WinSock" and pirated the hell out of it, and later versions came as part of the OS as if it'd been there all the time. Moral: Microsoft didn't invent the internet: Unix did.
Later, they decided to build it in, but they butchered the standard. Instead of following the standard agreed-upon by hundreds of vendors, they detected when an IIS webserver was on the other end, and agreed to ignore the ACKs and NAKs. This wasn't the only time they munged the standard to make them look better. They also chewed up DHCP servers, because a Win95 host would KEEP TALKING AFTER IT LOST IT'S LEASE on an IP address.
So those parts have been thrown away, rebuilt, thrown away partly, given new logos, recompiled for marketing reasons and are as they are, today.
In Linux, TCP/IP was one of several standards adopted early on. Sure, *very* early they probably threw something away, but the development model is more about "polishing the apple" over, and over, and over again.
When you do that, parts of the OS, probably like login.c (inspired and running years before Linux was created, then with one major change when PAM came in) have been patched and matured to the point they need no more fixing: they've beaten all the bugs. Login.c is one of 100,000 files on my machine at this moment- they're all being polished into leaner, stronger, better files every time someone files a bug report.
Windows can't possibly do this. Never mind the stolen code from Sybase (now called Access, and largely re-written) every release, they have to *pay* a cadre of people to build something which has huge chunks that are fresh and buggy. Linux never does, and has an even larger audience to check for bugs, both before and after launch.
Where's this lead?
At some point, Microsoft won't be able to release a version more stable, or more bug-free than your garden-variety Linux. 20+ years later, and we're STILL fighting an ever-growing batch of malware of various kinds, we're STILL being told the new version will be stronger and we're STILL requiring a third-party program to help Windows make it through the day. And sometimes that's not enough.
Cisco makes routers that make sense of the "Windows Networking" that seems to have never figured out how to leave a subnet.
Banks all over the world, flush-n-fill each and every PC in their employ every night because it's more likely to let them miss viruses. They're real data is on non-Microsoft servers. More and more, guess who that is?
So yeah...continue with that horse-n-buggy thinking that has scared real creative geniuses out of the PC marketplace for 15-20 years. Help along that product-liability suit or that cadre of stormtroopers who comes in looking for pirated software and leaves with a $100,000 check a month later, after bringing your business to a halt.
My operating system was made *on the internet*, programmed by fellows with compassion and vision. Won't you leave your horse and buggy world and try something new?
--- For a good time mail uce@ftc.gov
Sounds like an average day working tech support.
Maybe RMS could create a parody that goes like "Copy this...., this is NOT a crime". I'm sure it would be a big hit.
I thought I would point out the many inaccuracies in this film:
1. The mother was fighting back to the evil paramilitary force that, without warning, smashed down her door and entered her house. She would have been shot because she clearly "endangered" the armed men's life.
2. ANIME ANGEL TATOOS? In an American prison??? I doubt there are any anime nerds in lockup...
The phrase "copycrime" really reminded me of "thoughtcrime" from 1984, which isn't a good message propaganda should be sending...
every time you dl a game the SIIA kills a kitten
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfqkdh5Js4
He already made a jingle AND a video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i57g21Z8Kc
I guess maybe it wouldn't have made the same impact ...
He's already registered in ours.
-NSA
Good point! So many people here are using the terms interchangeably. It is as if these people think that the two words are synonymous!
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
I thought commercial software companies all died in the 2000 bubble. Except for specialist areas where nobody wants to copy it anyhow.
BTW http://www.archive.org/details/StorageD1984 :
At about 4 minutes in, an Interview with Alan Shugart, Founder of Seagate.
Some of his statements in there:
We will not see the Floppy Disk beeing replaced by semiconductor memory.
This is the part where it really relates to "Don't Copy That Floppy"-Video:
Question: "You see this size (3,5") replacing the 5 1/4 inch disks?"
Answer: "No I don't. I think there's a marketplace for the smaller size..., but I don't think that they'll ever replace the 5 1/4 inch mini floppy, because all those programms are written on mini floppies, and you'll never gonna be able to in your wildest imagination transscribe all those programms onto smaller disks. It isn't gonna be done.".
" Adding comments has been disabled for this video.
" I wanted to comment on the video too! They are restricting my freedom of speech! I should turn them in. Criminals!!!
MC Lars' "Download this Song" also comes to mind :P
Hey, I can follow instructions.
"It's 2006, the consumer's still pissed
Won't take it anymore so I'm writing a list
Don't try to resist this paradigm shift
The music revolution cannot be dismissed"
"You know, we just wanted a level playing field.
You've overcharged us for music for years, and now we're
Just trying to find a fair balance. I hate to say it, but...
Welcome to the future."
I listen to both RIAA and non-RIAA stuff if I like the music, tangential business/politics nonwithstanding.
It wasn't just commercials. I know of a person who could not get accepted into a sober housing program because they had an open criminal case that included an aspect of supporting terrorism. What was the crime in question? Possession of paraphenalia, to wit 1 "Felix the Cat" Bong. Seriously. The guy couldn't get into a program designed to help people stay drug-free because he was "caught" with a device used for smoking marijuana, and therefore clearly helped fund the 9/11 attacks. The fact that it was Felix the Cat added just enough surrealism to keep me^H^Hhim from totally losing it.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
that video is so, so sad, i really wanted to cry, but couldn't cause i was laughing so hard..
You would think that every marketing graduate would know that scare tactics turned PSA deliver some of the best unintentional satire created by man. I'll wait until it's in Netflix and do a double feature with "The Day After Tomorrow."
An anti-piracy video that portrays the RIAA/MPAA/Law Enforcement as being a bunch of over-reacting psychotics? Sounds like a pirate-party recruitment video.
> ...forced to tattoo shirtless adult inmates who eventually turn him on...
Wait, did that just say...?
> ...forced to tattoo shirtless adult inmates who eventually turn on him...
oh. ok. right.
Honestly, there's very few PSA that don't send me into a rage. I see that one with the kid who dropped out of High School trying to buy a wallet and this Asian couple laughing at him, and I just want to slap every member of the Ad Council.
Not only was High School a waste of time for me, that only caused me pain and sorrow, but, and this is important, I find the use of the two store personnel speaking in a foreign language to be racist and discriminatory.
That PSA should be banned.
Anyways, stealing is not necessarily defined by depriving one person of an experience or possession, it's defined by obtaining said item without giving the original author or owner the compensation requested for your copy.
Are you sure? IANAL, but here's a few definitions I found from different legal texts around the world... (bold emphasis mine)
I certainly won't argue that piracy isn't a crime, but it definitely does NOT appear to be "theft"...
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So my investment banker and my money manager are both on that list.... Now what? If you were to avoid all those companies you would screw yourself over.
Since democracy is an abject failure due to corporate spending power I forward the idea of disregarding the law. No taxation without representation was a past war cry, perhaps we can rally under a new one when we hit the copy button.
I like the name. I want it. Tempting to setup a server in Antigua and get some trackers running.
You know this is a record company executive's fantasy of what should happen to everyone who downloads MP3s. That's what this video is for: it's not for us, really. You know him and his Ivy League buddies had a hearty laugh at the screening in his office, and then he said, "Put that out there where people can download it - for free! Ha ha ha" and went back to torturing kittens or trading derivatives or whatever the fuck he does with his time.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Does anyone know of any good "learn how to tattoo" torrents?
Yup, sounds like Amerika.
I bet if I showed this new video to the average 12 year old, they'd think it was some kind of internet sketch comedy thing.
Funny, this whole thing makes me think of the IT Crowd piracy video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wRxfz_6E7o
was this video made in 1990?
Deep Purple sued because they failed to pay royalties to themselves. . . ??!!
http://russiatoday.com/Art_and_Fun/2009-07-03/Deep_Purple_ordered_to_pay_royalty_to_themselves_.html
For me the only ethics in software is being able to share it with your friends. Did your mother teach you nothing?
You know what is truely ethical?; Marking something and then sharing it with the rest of the world!
And the only thing that is truely attacking the digital age are the proprietary software vendors and the pro-copyright bodies.
Now get the fsck off my lawn!
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I used to buy games for the PC because it was the easiest and fastest way to play a video game. I wouldn't have to wait several hours/days to download a pirated game, run through several days of trying out various hack and patches. And because I like to play the games again in a few years, it had a good chance of working with a newer version of windows once you downloaded the latest patch.
Now I don't buy games for the PC, because it takes days of trying out various pseudo patches or because some games have various digital rights managements that only gives you a limited number of installs (Bioshock - which I bought and have never played), or something equally stupid with the latest DRM. I theorize it now easier to play a pirated game then it is to get a legal copy to work.
Steam is the future of game distribution, but that's the thing. I am willing to run my games off Steam, but I don't want my PC to be cluttered with a dozen products like Steam just so I can play the games that Steam doesn't distribute.
Right up until the end I thought it was a moderately funny (ok, not even that funny) CollegeHumor video or something. Then I realised it's serious. Holy shit. Who are these people? They're among us, but they're not like us. They have no sense of ... ridicule? Shame?
They're not human.
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Rappers, appealing to a sense of right and wrong? Surely, this story is a fake.
Funniest response this story. :D
Due to the similarities between this and the 90's video I believe there is a case of copyright infringement, maybe the creators of this vid should be gang raped in jail instead of kids downloading tracks. I would also like the designers of the video to have their hard drives checked - they appear to be into kiddie rape...
Not that I'm a fan of rap in general. But I do not think that I should take my moral guidance from rap musicians.
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
What really strikes me is how well this current fumbled outing into marketing to youth culture really demonstrates the inability to understand that culture and what might motivate its members.
We already had ample indications that the recording industry, as a whole, was seriously struggling with the paradigm shifts of the digital age but this really does suggest floudering at a much deeper level of connect with their customer base.
-- Gaxx
... is a PSA that warns viewers that the content of most PSAs are rarely objective and are often funded by organizations trying to push their own agenda. (Some of which may actually be worse than the crap they're PSAing to us about.)
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It's weird that Microsoft isn't there.
Since the original video had the developers of AOL's Neverwinter Nights, will this new video feature the developers of the current generation's cutting edge MMORPG?
Don't copy those World of Warcraft CDs! Every time you copy a World of Warcraft CD, Vivendi loses money! A lot of money!
Copying a floppy NEVER was "piracy", and never will be!
First and foremost, it as fair use.
THEN, in case you are giving it to someone, without having a license to do so, is copyright infringement. Which has nothing do to with stealing, killing, sinking ships, or anything like that!
And then it STILL does not hurt anybody, when that other person would not have bought it anyway.
Which by definition makes it no crime.
A real crime has to hurt somebody in some way. Everything else is no crime, but a law that only exists to give some people an unfair advantage.
Which makes that law, that is hurting the people that are punished because of it, by definition a crime.
This is how things really look. But it seems you have already bought their newspeak dictionary.
Which makes me want to sink some "ships", killing some people. Especially those with the **AA on their flags.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
The type of people this is intended to intimidate/scare away from getting into piracy couldn't buy anymore software than they already do, and any of them already committing piracy world likely remain unaffected. From an economical point of view the means that the youngsters using this software are indeed having a 'free lunch', aka increased consumer surplus, but not at the cost of producer surplus. I don't know what kind of moron they report to, to (need to) produce such a fire-and-miss from the behemoth that is the anti-piracy gun. Surely this is another anti-piracy parody, but then again they do tend to be pretty unintelligent to begin with.
I get "Pirates Palace", that refers to The Pirate Bay, which suggests that "Tunes Weasel" also refers to some major download site. The obvious reference is to iTunes and Firefox (also known als Iceweasel), but I can't believe that they would imply that iTunes is illegal.
Weasel could refer to IceWeasel which is another name for Firefox. I'm sure there's a bunch of people around that think that Firefox is somewhat fishy because people download it.
Another possibility is that it refers to Waffles, which is almost an acronym of Weasel.
Am I missing something or is competition really that fierce that they will even attack iTunes?
I had no idea Neverwinter Nights was a game back then. And an MMORPG to boot. I was living in the C64 world until 1997 so I had no real desire to keep up with the PC world. I was/am a very big an of the gold box D&D games and I feel totally and completely cheated!
MC Double Def DP wouldn't be able to get into your PC in the first place!
The *IAA's want to become the next SS/KGB/Stasi, using paramilitary actions as a way to keep the dollars trickling into their dying business models.
The truly scary part?
That suits in both Hollywood and on the Beltway believe that this is a viable way to treat the American people.
Some days it's just not worth
chewing through my restraints.
Watch it here and watch it again, till you email it to Riaa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wRxfz_6E7o
How about a 'you wouldnt risk your career working for riaa as a lawyer would you, who would hire you next?'
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
The description of the video sounds like Weird Al's "Don't download this song" video.
Air France would deny the plane had them there and that they really are scuba diving in the Atlantic.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
The summary is leaving me confused. Is this an amateur video satirizing the RIAA or is this really from an anti-copyright infringement group?
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This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
I wonder if the next 50 Cent could get street cred for music swapping:
Went onto Limewire
Got caught swappin' songs
Got five years in prison
And some tats on my arms
Then add some f-words and n**ga references for good measure...
It made a really cool bong!
Hey, is there a Maddof connection here?
Why is goggle part of this, is it possible to even pirate google software? I bet its impossible.
Stupid twits, probly joined because they were playing golf with some ceos.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
With Michael Jackson dead, I guess we need something else to scare the kids to sleep.
So now they (the RIAA et al) are openly and explicitly threatening our lives? Does this mean the gloves are off? Is it open season on xxAA executives?
I have the Don't Copy That Floppy VHS tape in the original packaging if anyone wants to buy it...
It's a crime (DMCA)! Please, we appeal to your sense of right and wrong.
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
I never want to see any footage from a speedo camera.
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Is that a rip-off Tardis interior I see (I guess they didn't want to pay for the rights)? Interesting that they choose a property which I got into by downloading (that was the only way to watch it at the time) and have since spent hundreds of dollars purchasing Doctor Who DVDs, CDs, books, and collectables.
I love how they use the coercive threat of prison violence. These days it's just accepted as fact that the prison system is completely and utterly broken beyond repair.
Even if agents were to bust down your door and arrest you, computer crime such as stealing mp3's, applications, etc.. is classified as "Non-violent". This means if you do have to do some jail time, you basically do it in a minimum security resort.
Use Linux.
You are free to:
Copy it.
Give it to a friend.
Put it on a website for anyone to download or copy.
I say things which affects my Karma negatively. (and I don't care) For instance; All religion is false.
They already did that, almost verbatim. Not sure if it was in all the theaters, but I recall seeing at least 2 or 3 different shorts from the "little people" who work on films talking about how piracy won't hurt the studio executives, but hurts them a lot. Must have been 5-8 years ago if I recall correctly.
Hasn't this been tried before? Although the remake is much better. For some reason people believe it, even if it isn't true, just make a commercial or better yet a movie about it.
what torrent i can get this video from?
thanks
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I think I'll buy the latest game, crack it's copy protection, make 1000 clearly marked copies, and leave them lying around on school campuses. Fuck the software companies, fuck the RIAA/MPAA, and fuck copyright laws.
... while I was downloading stuff through their unsecured WiFi.
Have gnu, will travel.
A smug teen who's downloading files from 'Pirates Palace' and 'Tune Weasel' finds his world unchanged when he, like millions of others, is never contacted by the authorities because, well, they have better things to do with their limited time and reduced budget than enforce expensive-to-prosecute file-sharing laws. The smug teen plays the files, deems them worthless crap and is glad her money was not wasted on artless, DRM-encumbered drek peddled by out-of-touch media distributors preying on artists they despise and teens they treat like godless terrorists. Later that day, she is molested and murdered by someone who HAS NEVER ILLEGALLY DOWNLOADED A FILE and who is never apprehended by the authorities because they are distracted by having to reply to repeated requests to enforce file-sharing laws.
No, Cheney is a dinosaur: Cheneysaurus Dickus.
...why some (most?) people seem to think it's okay to download something simply because they can. Am I the only person left who finds it morally objectionable to obtain something that I very well should have paid for? If I want a CD or DVD or video game, I go to the store and buy it. If a new NIB copy is too expensive for my tastes, I hit up the local resale shops. If that's still too much, then I rent or borrow it to make sure I like it and am willing to invest in it. Otherwise, I wait until the price goes down. Perhaps I'm up on my moral horse again. Perhaps I'm just wrong. Or perhaps I'm one of the few people left who still sees things properly in this up side down world.
Oops, when I said "the US has been pushing for a directive", I meant the EU. A European Union directive.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Seems like this could be interpreted as a way for nerds to be gangsta. Keeping it real.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
I am pretty sure I already saw this basic plot line on a South Park episode.
Bring back Sirius Punk!
Some one needs to make the response video: Greedy RIAA representatives being hauled in front of the guillotine...
After long and careful consideration, I've decided that the "Don't coppy that floppy" advertisement has merit. I will no longer duplicate floppy disk media.
It may take another 25 years or so to evaluate their next campaign, but rest assured, I will give it careful consideration!
Weird Al already pre-empted this movie.
With this sole exception, everything you said is dead on balls accurate. For future reference, you can die from Alcohol withdrawal but not from heroin. In fact, this is one of the many reasons Alcohol is a much more dangerous drug than heroin, assuming properly regulated doses.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
This reminds me of the death throws of the viruses I was removing from a buddies computer the other day. You could see the programs fight AVG to the death. A million pop-ups warning me about the horrible things that were happening to the computer as it was being cleansed of the bullshit.
In 21st Century America the RIAA are the new Luddites. Yay! That mean's that it's just about over.
Bill Clinton redefined lying and you want people to stop cheating, lying, stealing and whatever? Good f-in luck. When you have high-school polls that show students unanimously agreeing that they must cheat in order to 'get ahead', its over. We've been screwed since the 1980s with this new generation of do-nothing parenting, "I never say no to my kids" whackos, etc. Get past it, theft is here to stay forever.
... what will deter those illegal downloaders who like Prison Rape?
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
A smug teen who's downloading files from 'Pirates Palace' and 'Tune Weasel' finds his world got flipped turned upside down and I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there.....
but Novell is on there
lmao , the last one helped too ... doesn't darwin predict the extinction of any who do never adapt their oneway tactics ?
Free speech was meant to be free for all... how can anyone grow up in a nanny state ?