In no way does The Movie Blog encourage pirated movies. Not even really bad ones. But apparently Wal-mart does.
Wal-Mart, which sells more DVDs than any other retailer, has been advertising on Pirate Bay, the Swedish-based company that indexes pirated movies available for illegal downloading on the Internet, Daily Variety disclosed today
Now to be fair, the piracy website that shows these ads are likely from an ad service that rotates the banners, and Wal-mart just happens to be on that list.
I couldn’t imagine Wal-mart’s ad executives being naive enough to think that they could curb piracy by advertising on sites that promote it.
It is about as effective as those health warnings on cigarettes packs. Those Surgeon General issued warnings that show sickly pictures of mouth cancer victims right on the box. No matter how bad the message is, the people seeing them have already made their choice and will not be swayed by them.
Either that or Wal-mart is giving in and we can expect to see foreign subtitled poorly packaged ripoff copies on their shelves soon.
