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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?
This one's much better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32wmepTVM3I
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
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.
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
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)
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.
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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.