MPAA’s Aggressive Anti-Piracy Propaganda
Written by Ernesto on March 10, 2007The MPAA is very active in recruiting America’s youth for their war on piracy. The deadline for the their anti-piracy propaganda contest just passed. SIFE Students from all over America spent weeks filming mind numbing anti-piracy PSAs, resulting in some really bad, but hilarious clips.
Piracy is the greatest obstacle the film industry currently faces, according to MPAA Chairman Dan Glickman. “We remain committed to educating students, parents and all consumers to aggressively tackle the threat of piracy,” he said.
Some of the PSAs created by these students are indeed aggressive and horrific instead of educational. Below is an example of a clip that was sent in by students from Kirkwood Community College, for this years anti-propaganda contest. But I’m not sure if I’m supposed to laugh or cry.
More anti-piracy PSAs can be found over here. For people who are interested in really good and educational PSAs, take a look at the winners of the Anti-DRM contest. That’s what I call creative.
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Lamest Thing Ever. American Youth is stupid to go along with it. I live in Missouri and I have never head of this bullshit yet. Thank God. I would just laugh at them.
I’m laughing, be sure of that.
Complete rubbish.
While a case might be made that “stealing creativity kills creativity”, I fail to see how downloading a movie or t.v. show is “stealing creativity”. Downloading is not plagiarism. Duh!
the hypocrisy is funniest thing, they robed a scene from independence day!!!
laughing, for sure!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5HaNcKFqCc
^^^ that is lamest…. ^^^
talk about propaganda, it’s trying to say that we are taking away freedom…
but wait, is this trying to say that the police are ugly people who will stab you and hunt you down?
hm, who kills creativity? rather the riaa
I left my mark on the comments for the videos but i think they deleted them
Stealing?
Like when they make me purchase a new license to view a movie on DVD when I already own a license to view that movie (purchased on VHS).
They’ve already stolen plenty from me.
the dude who made this video used copyrighted music from the matrix, the irony is killing me, rofl.
Dude Gayest thing ever gayed
Crap. Crap, Crap, Crap.
When someone “pirates” something it doesn’t kill creativity. Mostly anything “stolen” is only available because big corporate America is screwing people up the wazoo. The only reason I would “steal” anything is to see If I like it. If anything I’d rather test and dislike something then buy and hate it so much for wasting the money that I’d just give it a bad reputation to everyone I know. RIAA is nothing more than a bunch of stuck up, sold out music whores that want to take everything they can from the middle class. Music isn’t about money, its expression and when you forget that you lose your talent.
Interesting how corporate America suddenly becomes ethic-crazy when it comes to so-called “piracy”, and this just shows how out of touch they are with reality.
It’s nice to see that they think the crap they are churning out is “art”. Maybe if it really was I would pay for it and watch it, rather than just not watching it, pirating or otherwise.
shouldn’t that “I” for the illegal downloading really stand for idiots?
I was a member of SIFE and participated in this competition last year. First of all, I buried this article because of inaccuracy. This was not an aggressive move to force anti-piracy propaganda. It wasn’t even the MPAA’s idea. The fact of the matter is that every year, for the better part of a decade, SIFE students across the nation take part in an annual competition where they show off the projects they have worked on during the year. These projects center around specific topics including ETHICS which is what this project relates to. ONE STUDENT and his class started this project last year by contacting a friend who worked at the MPAA and purposed the idea to them. The student who put this project together was highly awarded for his participation in laying the foundation for this particular individual topic. This was simply a class project and not a political or cultural scam cooked up by the lawyers who run the RIAA. My video didn’t win last year, but the videos that did where quite good and funny. Also, please keep in mind that most of these videos where put together by business students not film makers, under a strict deadline, and while taking there normal classes. That’s, why most of them suck.
I’m not sure these videos will change the minds of hard core movie pirates, hell, i didn’t even buy into my own video and I have a stack of videos that I copied sitting on the desk in one of my shots, but changing a pirates mind wasn’t the goal anyway. The goal was to show that ethics are important to maintaining civilization and that although it is easier, cheaper, and the future of mass entertainment, coping movies or any other form of entertainment and sharing them is stealing and is unethical.
Since I’ve started downloading stuff from the internet I went and buy a lot more dvd’s, cd’s… I’ve discovered a lot of new artists and supported their creativity!
LOL!
How ignorant.
@k3vin
Alberto Gonzales has a job for you ratting out your fellow citizens. Go for it, buddy.
@k3vin
You have a LOT to learn about ethics. Go study.
How dare they use the music from the Super Burly Brawl from The Matrix Revolutions to push their propaganda…
The funny thing is they didn’t give credit to any of the “actors” or to the composer of the music…lol
I wonder if they licensed the background music ……..
I hope to dear god that they only did that for the money.
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