Feds use seized domains for anti-piracy video

[Gerry]

ICE Uses Seized Domains for Best Anti-Piracy Video Ever

* By David Kravets Email Author
* April 27, 2011 |
* 1:59 pm |
* Categories: The Ridiculous, intellectual property
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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau is hoping to lay a little guilt on movie downloaders by dramatizing the stark human toll BitTorrent inflicts on Hollywood boom mic operators … or something.

ICE released the above 76-second public service announcement to YouTube late Tuesday, and began promoting it on 65 of the 120 domains the agency seized in its anti-piracy program “Operation in Our Sites.” Visitors to dvdcollects.com, for example, are greeted with an ICE message that the domain has been seized, and a link to the video.

“The public service announcement,” ICE Director John Morton said in a statement, “will help raise awareness that American businesses, and American jobs, are threatened by those who pirate copyrighted material and produce counterfeit trademarked goods.”

The public service address shows a peddler on a New York street giving away free movies he said were downloaded from the internet. Beside him stands a soon-to-be unemployed worker. ”What’s more important,” he asks, “the movie or this human being?”

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[Cartoonz]

false logic... the assumption that if one does not download a movie that they will pay for it is just a wee tad inaccurate.

 

[Nathan King]

That video is ridiculous. I like this version better.

 

[StianStian is verified member.]

There's only one anti-piracy movie that counts:

Don't Copy That Floppy

 

[Nathan King]

There's only one anti-piracy movie that counts:

Don't Copy That Floppy

Hahaha...it's a good thing people stopped copying discs...we dodged a bullet there:

"The discs become fewer
The games fall away
The screen starts to shrink
And then it will fade
The computer world becomes bleak and stark...
...
Welcome to the end of the computer age"