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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)."
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.
Is it just me or does MC Double Def "DP" sound like a black porn star's stage name?
it's RIAA-porn.
You mean it's not?
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.
This one's much better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32wmepTVM3I
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
You Bastard! Now I'm going to have that song in my head for another six months!
Just to put it into perspective. Al Queda is pressuring farmers in afghanistan to grow poppies to make cocaine. There is a large effort to convert to convert the farmers to grow something else like saffraan.
But cocaine!= weed, but there is some truth in that message.
Sounds like an average day working tech support.
Which works exactly again them. It tends to make young people take them less and less seriously. You might as well run a PSA against teen age sex by convincing young men there are teeth in young women's vagina's and their peepee's will turn green and fall off if they touch themselves.
Of course nobody takes them seriously anymore.
If it works anything as well as DARE has, I predict the Pirate Party will sweep the midterm elections in 2022 and we'll be singing "Arr to the Chief" in 2024.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
Wait, that's not true?
Woo Hoo! Hold my calls!
No crime has been committed. Where the fuck do you live? Saudi Arabia?
How we know is more important than what we know.
Does anyone know of any good "learn how to tattoo" torrents?
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
There was a recent piece of "journalism" in australia that tried to make a tenuous link that "if you buy a DVD at a flea market you are funding terrorism", sigh.
09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
I think you underestimate how long Cheney has been around. Where do you think we got the oil in the first place? Cheney had the dinosaurs slaughtered.
Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite (TM)
Throw it into a DARE program (anti-drug education for those outside the US; called VIP in some areas of Canada) targeting 10-year olds who don't yet understand its stupidity, let it sit for a few years. Bingo, a generation of well-trained consumers who think free information is pure evil.
Have you looked around the schools today? 10 year olds are too busy seeding so they can get more out of those private trackers. While stoned.
Actually no, it would be a disastrous thing for humanity since the very first I am going to use my replicator for is to churn out a billion strong army of 50M long venomous flying crocodiles with a taste for human blood.
So I would guess that they don't even understand the meaning of the word irony.
On several levels.
But then, why would metallurgists work for the RIAA ?
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
Hold on just one second. You mean that, because I downloaded this copy of Ubuntu for free, and maintain it with free software, that there will never be a new version of Ubuntu! Oh no!
Except, and bear with me here, I had Ubuntu when it was 5.10, and they are currently planning the release of 9.10. Also, when I dl software straight from the Ubuntu servers I'll get a few hundred KB/s, but on Windoze I get a few tens of KB/s.
It must just be like all those artists that give away their work for free - really we all know that they are SECRET MAGICIANS, funded by OSAMA BIN LADEN in order to BRING DOWN THE CORPORATIONS THAT LOVE AND PROTECT US!
To be judged a success nowadays, films have to make a profit pretty much immediately upon release. By the time they go on sale as DVDs they are a massive commercial flop if they haven't made profit. Music should be free because it costs practically nothing to produce - many musicians play music at a stunning loss, and still keep doing it - Christ, I've spent a couple of grand easy on musical equipment, and have made £~100. Games should be paid for, because they are expensive and hard to produce, but if I bought every game I wanted to play I wouldn't have any money left over to pay my electricity bill, rendering the purchases pointless.
Be smart, help people!
Which works exactly again them. It tends to make young people take them less and less seriously. You might as well run a PSA against teen age sex by convincing young men there are teeth in young women's vagina's
Of course not... not with gums like that! Sheesh.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
DARE cracked me up. The essential message was "Kids, if you ever smoke a joint, you're going to end up dying in the gutter." Especially funny now, considering that our last three U.S. Presidents were all avowed "druggies" (by DARE's standards). Maybe they should create a new "Kids, if you don't toke, you'll never get to be President" campaign.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I am so calling my wife on her bluff now! ;)
-Xen