Hollywood anti-piracy flicks, then and now
p2pnet news view | MPAA News:- The entertainment cartels long ago started misusing the word ‘pirate’ as a pejorative to be applied to anyone refusing to buy corporate ‘product’.
With many a Yo and plenty of Ho’s, Hollywood in particular has been desperately trying to create the belief that it’s being driven to rack and ruin by evil file sharers relentlessly posting new releases on the P2P networks.
Somehow, Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney always seems to forget the inconvenient truth that most high-quality flicks which wind up online come from Hollywood insiders, not from kids with cams or even all those sophisticated criminals with high-end recording and dubbing gear, tripods, and so on, who somehow set up in cinemas without the management noticing.
But, “Piracy is isn’t just a big problem for the entertainment industry execs, it also keeps creative types like Andrew Lloyd Webber awake at night, and is a focus of Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report,” say Patrick Smith and Robert Andrews in paidContentUK, going on that the British film industry has launched a new campaign.
The “touchy-feely” new ads are, however, “in stark contrast to the hectoring, scare tactics of yesteryear,” they say, and with that in mind, they’ve come up with a hilarious video retrospective of anti-piracy campaigns, two of which you’ll find below.
Illegal DVDs. What criminal activity would you like your money to go to? From the MPAA’s ‘Farcical Approaches to Copyright Transgressions,’ or ‘Federation Against Copyright Theft’.
Or how about “When the lifting the veil on a criminal underworld doesn’t work, just make viewers feel cheap and embarrassed,” says paidContent, featuring the original Nigel ad where a grizzled folk singer gets his point across as Nigel tries to enjoy a quiet pint.
Credit where credit is due and intentional or not, the major Hollywood studios are always good for a laugh — ask failed MPAA boss Dan ‘The Joker’ Glickman (above right).
Hear him chuckle as he looks for a new job.
JN
April 8, 2009
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April 14th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
See, this is why nobody takes the industry seriously anymore. It’s one thing to outright insult/intimidate people with propaganda on DVD’s they’ve already paid for, but consumers can smell bullshit like this a mile away.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
One more reason why the pirate model works better. Pirated copies don’t have such BS in them for you to put up with. Only the paying customer gets the royal treatment in BS-cinema.
One only needs to remember, they are coming off a record year in profits with three constitutive record breaking profit months, and hoping to hit yet another all time high in profits.
P2P is still running, just as it always has. So piracy is not effecting the bottom line. BS low quality movies, are something else.
April 15th, 2009 at 10:41 am
The Nazi’s would have been proud of the morons who came up with the first video, bunching
drugs
violence and
child pron
in the same spot, piling on the BS 3feet high on a silver spoon and asking everyone to say aahhhhh.
Cant wait till the parodies start
April 15th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
F.U.C.K the MAFIAA…
April 15th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Ye I have no problem downloading movies, music, and tv shows from the MAFIAA. I even give them all to my friends and family also. I urge you all to do the same. ConvertXtoDVD is good on windows for making a dvd from avi. Give them out yo everyone you know including work colleagues.