Comments on: Anti-Anti Piracy Ads

By: Laura from TriviaPot

Laura from TriviaPot — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:22:19 +0000

True… true… but they have to do something to stop it.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:16:35 +0000

Yeah those ads would be the first thing to go so the bootlegger could fit the movie on a cheaper 4 gig dvdr

By: tobor68

tobor68 — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:14:52 +0000

not only do these ads tick me off, but any ad that appears on a dvd; especially the dvds you bought. like some collectors editions.

but the real ‘issue’, if you will is the fact you can’t skip the fbi warning, or the studio logo, or sometimes the trailers. hitting menu doesn’t work, sometimes skipping doesn’t work, sometimes fast forwarding doesn’t work. it’s a crap shoot!! i hate it! it’s like some ‘watching’ tax i gotta pay some asshole somewhere.

after all these years of watching movies at home, we practically have the friggin’ fbi warning memorized. (at the end of the credits on some more recent dvds you can see the old-ripped-from-a-vhs fbi warning crawl!!)

..raging over.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:56:59 +0000

I own many legal copies of DVD’s most will not let me skip this shit. And if they do anything for me all they do is make me think I wish someone near me sold piret copies. They waste my time on a movie I paid for. the same can be said of going to the movies. The advert is usless since those who will piret are going to those who want quality will buy the copy. At least the ads on TV help reduce its operating cost. and hey diaper guy every one gets older some time.

By: Alain Saffel

Alain Saffel — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:39:28 +0000

Not every ad out there is targeted at you, so deal with it. These anti-piracy ads are targeted at people who might think about piracy, are actually doing it or are participating in it in some way.

The people who get upset at these kinds of ads probably are insulted by anti-drug or anti-crime ads too. Do you guys get upset about feminine hygiene product ads? “Hey! I don’t use those! What are those ads on the TV for?” :P “Hey! I don’t use adult diapers!” (But eventually you will.) hehe

By: Kneon Transitt

Kneon Transitt — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:12:48 +0000

Hilarious PSA from The Boondocks…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mn8gzgu8rQ0

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:36:50 +0000

One of the benefits of running a home theatre pc instead of a DVD player is I run a program that sits in the system tray called AnyDVD. This has an option to “Skip annoying adverts and trailers” & jumps straight to either the menu or main film when I put a disc in.

The anti piracy ads are basically poorly targeted. They’re telling people who have bought a product, not to go and get an illegal copy but to go out & buy it. Somewhat unnecessary you’ll agree.

I just hate unskippable anything. Shrug.

By: Robert(wolf

Robert(wolf — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:11:06 +0000

The poster made me laugh lmao

By: Gnislew

Gnislew — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:46:10 +0000

Yeah, these spots are annoying. We have some german versions of those and mostly you can't skip them on the DVD. It's the same when you are going to the cinema. In germany there are a lot of commercials shown before the main movie and there alwaya was one of the annoying anti piracy spots. I was always thinking: hey you just paid 10 € to watch the movie. Why they are showing this to me. Now there a new campaign in germany. It is not a anti piracy campaign but one chowing why movies are for cinema. This is a good one and unlike the anti piracy spots these new spot are also screened on tv. You can find the spots here

By: Michael Nischt

Michael Nischt — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:16:27 +0000

Finally. I always wondered how long it would take to ‘advertise’ this f$#%ing fact.

if truth hurts, the movie industry should prepare for a lot of pain ;-)