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Still as hilarious as ever. I'm a fervent anti-pirate, but I'm considering pirating just because of this video. Good job "DP". EDIT: Look, even Translation Party agrees with me. | |
I... I can't even tell if they're being serious. It's so bad that there is no way they're actually meaning any of this. | |
You should copy, it keeps money from evil corporate pigs, who would just sit there and watch someone die when they have the money to cure them. | |
Something tells me they cant be serious making this | |
I think Jason was writing on the information side of the disk. Hmm... If there was a TV show version of this I'd watch it. | |
Quick, to the iTunes store! | |
I was thinking that too. My first thought was actually that they didn't know how piracy works and assumed all you had to do was write the name of the game you wanted on a CD. | |
If only this was real. If an annoying black man appeared on your monitor and started singing a terrible rap every time you pirated something, piracy would never be a problem again. But this was probably the last thing I expected to see today. | |
Do they honestly think this will work? | |
It's a pity the anti-piracy ads like that only appear in legal versions. | |
Haha, that was great. And true. Not sure what the Klingons were doing there, though. Are Klingons known for digital piracy? 0.o
....... What? | |
You wouldn't shoot a policeman...and then steal his helmet! This is one of the stupidest ads I've seen since...oh...The anti-smoking ones, anti-drink ones and this stunning beauty, the UK version of Don't Copy That Floppy Stunning. | |
Woah, really? How do they intend that to work? "Man! Hip Hop and Klingons, super rad! I am totally never gonna download anything again" or "My brain just fried, I won't be able to download anything again :(" No seriously. I hope they are playing on some form of camp value here. If not then it's just really really sad. And if DP isn't a joke I... just please let it be a joke. | |
I like the end of the video where it offers a reward of $1 million for reporting piracy. Hey SIIA! The pirates are right HERE! Now, where's my cash? | |
... IT'S NOT JUST A COPY IT'S A CRIME. WHAT Original is 100x better, this one sounds like they tried. Oh well. | |
Um... the dude was writing on the wrong side of the disks. I can't imagine those copies would work. | |
I don't think this is going to help stop copying. Just keep persecuting pirates with fines and such. | |
Well piracy wouldnt be such a problem if they stop trying to isolate markets and jack up profits artifically. Is there anybody who can explain to me the purpose of region coding DVD's past attemping to fracture markets to set independant prices? Or why in an age where information can circle the planet in seconds I still have to wait 6 months to watch the new SoA on Sky. | |
Consider this: If the first Don't Copy That (floppy) had been a complete success, wouldn't it have deprived us of this treasure? Surely the only way to ensure there will be another sequel is to keep copying? | |
God. No. The stupid educating the stupid? xD I wonder how many more parents will hate the Internet after watching this. | |
This is just fail on so many levels. | |
Is this serious. Because I dont think it is. It cant be. That trancsends cheesy and corny straight into just dumb. | |
if you dont copy then you dont backup. and if you lose your backup you wont be happy :( | |
Actually the CEO's are not effected, it the guys working lower down. | |
eehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... Maybe they should put this into the games if you, say, download illegally, like the Batman: Arkham Asylum charade. | |
A few things came up in my mind after watching this. Firstly, to BSheba: No, girl, I'm sorry. No one has ever, ever, EVER, bootlegged your music. You know how I know that? Because you got a "featuring" credit on Don't Copy That 2. No one would ever tell you that they had bootlegged your music because that would mean they would have to admit having listened to you. Secondly, I've learned two things from this video: A heavily armored (albeit unarmed) FBI agent is easily cowed by a women with curlers in her hair wielding a wooden spoon, and that apparently in federal prison, you are mercilessly taunted and chased by the cast of Stomp. I'd also like to point out that they're really only attacking people who sell pirated stuff, most of whom are apparently setting up websites for doing so. They're not confronting the common pirate, who's distributing and downloading everything w/o any monetary gain. | |
Superpowers demonstrated by "DP" in this video: Does he sound like the perfect comic-book villain to anyone else? | |
Count me in as well Orannis. | |
This isn't focusing on that, its focusing on the distributors of copied software. Also likely why they chose who they did for the end interview.
I really want to see this happen now. Or I will make it happen next time I'm running a crazy campaign of sorts. | |
just by hearing that I want to copy the song to my ipod Irony at it's best | |
One of these things seems more important than the other. Copyright infringement is a civil offense is it not? I'd say he went to jail for freaking stealing bank accounts. Not bootlegging. (Companies don't care much about bootleggers anyway, P2P's far worse for them.) | |
I think the promo for this that was linked a while back was far better. Incidentally, from this it seems to make the distinction that pirating stuff and selling it is illegal but it doesn't seem to daemonise pirating personal copies. | |
Hahhaha, Great video. Was the little girl laughing when they put her mom in the patrol car? Thats fucked up | |
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Don't Copy That 2 Hits the Tubes
After months of waiting, it's finally here: Don't Copy That 2, the new video from the Software & Information Industry Association that warns against the evils and dangers of copying software.
The SIIA announced in July that a follow-up to the 1992 PSA Don't Copy That Floppy, a video featuring the raptastic talents of D.P., aka MC Double Def DP the Disc Protector, would be released in September. The cheese factor in the original video was off the charts, a fact the SIIA appeared ready to capitalize on: A promotional trailer for the sequel featured the world's worst SWAT team chasing somebody's mom and a pair of file-sharing Klingons.
Now, right on schedule, Don't Copy That 2 has landed on YouTube and while the cheese remains intact, the video ends on a bit of a dark note with a brief appearance by Jeremiah Mondello, who is currently serving a four-year term in a federal penitentiary in Oregon for using stolen bank account information to create fake eBay and PayPal accounts, which he used to sell pirated software.
Also interesting is a cameo by id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead and what appears to be a two-second flash of Rage in action. It's hard to make out, though, and then the Klingons started dancing and I got distracted. The important thing is this: Don't copy that!
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