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Don't Copy That Floppy! Gets a Sequel

Posted by timothy on from the not-the-jailhouse-fantasy-I-signed-up-for dept.

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)."

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  1. So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone got a link to the torrent?

  2. A better video by Aphonia · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. DP by tnok85 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it just me or does MC Double Def "DP" sound like a black porn star's stage name?

  4. So, basicly, by Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny

    it's RIAA-porn.

  5. Re:BILLY MAYS HERE... by Zero_Independent · · Score: 5, Funny
    Even if they had to do this campaign, did they really have to tie it into DCTF? That can't possibly lend them credibility. 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.

    You mean it's not?

  6. This sounds familiar by Boawk · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

    Sounds like an average day working tech support.

  7. Re:BILLY MAYS HERE... by EdIII · · Score: 4, Funny

    Instead they made themselves a joke again.

    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.

  8. Re:BILLY MAYS HERE... by Kadin2048 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  9. Re:BILLY MAYS HERE... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    Wait, that's not true?

    Woo Hoo! Hold my calls!

  10. Re:BILLY MAYS HERE... by QuantumG · · Score: 5, Funny

    No crime has been committed. Where the fuck do you live? Saudi Arabia?

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  11. Re:The new U.S.: Violence is entirely acceptable. by Repossessed · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  12. Re:BILLY MAYS HERE... by Fred_A · · Score: 4, Funny

    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 ?

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