MPAA ant-piracy flic parody
p2p news / p2pnet: Q: What the hell is this?
It’s a FAQ for Abuse of Power, a parody of the MPAA’s anti-piracy video you’re forced to watch every time you rent a commercial DVD, and …
“This is just our small way of saying ‘Fuck you, MPAA’,” say the makers of Abuse.
And the FAQ goes on:
Q: Can I get a copy?
A: The video can be downloaded in various formats from the Internet Archive — show it, share it, burn it, we don’t care.
Q: What about copyright?
A: What about it? Our video is published under a Creative Commons license that allows you to do pretty much anything you want. If you’re worried about protecting the so-called intellectual property of the media corporations that originally broadcast some of the images we used, then you should log out and go to work for the MPAA.
Q: What are you trying to prove?
A: The tools and networks of the digital age offer great potential for participation, sharing and creativity, but media conglomeration and expanding copyright protections threaten our ability to speak using those tools. We need to educate ourselves about copyright law and resist the efforts of organizations like the MPAA and RIAA to curtail the rights of media consumers.
Q: And you think you can do that with a crap-ass 45-second video?
A: No, but we’re not alone. The conventional wisdom is that things will only change when there is movement on three fronts: law, technology and popular practice – we hope this video will encourage others to become more active as users, creators and remixers of existing media.
Say no more.
No.
Go here or here to check Abuse of Power, then go here or here for the MPAA video.
Then say more …
And, “If you like this video, please feel free to circulate it, copy it, remix it or make your own!” say the creators.
“Decide who the real pirates are. Learn more about alternatives to corporate domination of media. Resistance is not futile!
Digg this.
Also See:
didn’t adequately disclose – Microsoft sued over WGA, June 29, 2006
CNET News – Microsoft faces second WGA lawsuit, July 5, 2006
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July 12th, 2006 at 6:35 pm
i wasn’t able to view the clip even though i have quicktime, only that annoying audio plays but no image, anybody know where i can find a viewable copy?
July 12th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
nevermind found it on YOUTUBE, awesome clip!
July 14th, 2006 at 2:36 am
The video is encoded as Quicktime H.264, which requires the Quicktime 7 player — if you’re still using Quicktime 6, you will only hear the audio. It’s worth it to grab the new player because the video quality of H.264 is a LOT better than YouTube!