#FBI anti-piracy

[flojo67]

[awobbles]

Note To Self:

Do not search up the “#fbi warning” tag anymore.

There will be more people talking about some cult than images of the fbi anti piracy warning.

[georgebbwbush]

i feel like fandom people think they will literally die if they don't sexualize high schoolers

[us-the-voices-and-more-voices-2]

everyday I am reminded that OH MY FUCK OH MY GOD OH MY FUCKING GOD PLEASE NO NO NO NO NO NO!

PLEASE GOD NO, I CAN'T SURIVE THAT PLEASE GOD NO NO NO NO!

[olderthannetfic]

I hate to be an asshole, but I’ve seen some posts along the lines of “I do NOT authorize anyone to feed my fics to AI!” circulate around tumblr, and I have to admit they all make me laugh. I’m neutral on AI fic myself, but if someone really wants to feed your fic to chatGPT, a disclaimer is not gonna stop them. Just like those anti piracy warnings on DVDs or anti cheating warnings on a syllabus, but this time with even less repercussions if you do it! (Like seriously, Someone put your fic through chatGPT against your will… and what’s your next step? Calling the FBI to report it?)

I’m a general believer that what someone doesn’t know, doesn’t hurt them. I’d be pretty wounded if someone put my stuff through AI and *posted it publicly*, so I really DO get it, or at least I TRY to get it…but if someone put one of my unfinished fics through AI and told the AI to finish it, and they kept it to themselves just for their own personal files… I wouldn’t care in the slightest. Hell, even if I KNEW I don’t think I’d care.

I can’t really “allow” or “not allow” people to do certain things with my fics. No one can. It’d be one thing if it was “I don’t authorize people to do anything *publicly* with my fics” (because at least reposts like that can be reported to AO3) but if it’s just between you and OpenAI. . . Who cares?

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If the DVD warnings are anything to go by, such notes just make people want to do it more in a contrarian way.

I think some of the fear and anger is because AI scraping is a hot topic. What kind of corpus is acceptable to use without permission or remuneration for what may become a commercial product?

But I don't actually think somebody running my fic through one of these is meaningfully adding to its issues around consent.

[stargirldotcom]

technology/physical/digital media graveyard (rip)

full movies on youtube, no ads, uploaded by a random person

“be kind, rewind”

dial up

blockbuster my beloved <3

fbi anti-piracy warning

beemp3

limewire

those fun ipod ads where the silhouettes were jammin out

wii

wii u

nintendo dsi my beloved <3

mii parade/purgatory

when netflix came in the mail

og iphone

purble place

v.families my beloved <3

the simpsons before they got bright

[dont-look-me-in-the-eye]

tell the story about pirating media!!

(hope you’re taking care of yourself friend :) )

there was this guy in the plaza that

bought dvds full price, ripped and burned a couple dozen copies, and sold them

for a fraction of the price.

i remember going there with my dad as a kid,

him getting shitty bollywood movies and me trying (and failing) to convince him to buy some kid's stuff.

we would get paan after, it was right next to that guy's shop.

it's closed now, dvds and blu-ray disks (remember those!) defunct in an era of streaming, replaced by a fancy dress shop.

the dvds are still in a box buried in my room, next to a disk reader that only serves to light up with strange text at night.

paan shop changed locations, still in the same area.

i wonder about change a lot. anyways

most of our dvds/cds/blu-rays are white with the name of the movie written on them in black marker.

i don't know what happened to the guy, but i know his handwriting, even still.

it's funny how at the beginning, there were always these FBI, anti-piracy PSAs,

"Piracy Is Not A Victimless Crime" - "The unauthorized reproduction and distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal..."

all watched on a white disk-with-name-written-on-in-sharpie, pirated by a man who i only know as "older brother", bought for 50c at 10pm.

it sure was nice.

[safety-pin-punk]

FBI Anti-Piracy Warning who??

Sorry I dont know her

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

Before I started collecting Disney VHS tapes and home media...

Growing up in the mid-to-late 1990s, most of my Disney VHS tapes were post-1994 titles. My sister and I only had a few of the Classics releases, the majority of what we had were from the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection. That included titles that were previously in the Classics line.

And as a kid, roughly 5, 6, whatever, I noticed the differences. I saw some cases had that shiny black diamond logo saying "The Classics", and others the glitzy castle and the "Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection" text underneath.

The only Classics tapes we had until I was about 10, and started sorta soft-collecting these things... Were the 1992 releases of 101 DALMATIANS and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the 1993 releases of PINOCCHIO (which I count, for various reasons despite the diamond being nowhere on the packaging/tape label) and ALADDIN, the final title THE FOX AND THE HOUND, and...

This release of DUMBO.

As you can tell, this copy has seen better days. I probably mangled that protective plastic as a kid, lol.

That's the 1989 cover of DUMBO, but with the 1991 tape master inside. It opens with the 1989 Walt Disney Classics logo, a restored Buena Vista title card with the opening music intact, and it has the white ink-on-shell label. The copy was printed in May 1993:

While not our oldest Disney feature tape, technically, it was our oldest release. DUMBO was one of those titles that did not go on moratorium, so that cover was available from 1989 to 1994. Then the Masterpiece Collection cover, which re-uses the same artwork and slightly modifies it, replaced it. Someone must've gotten this Classics version of DUMBO for the two of us sometime in mid-to-late 1993, maybe it was a Christmas gift.

But this, visually, felt like the oldest tape of a Disney feature film in our collection.

For starters, as you see in the vid above, it had no previews. Every other Classics tape we had, had previews: 101 DALMATIANS, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, PINOCCHIO, ALADDIN, and THE FOX AND THE HOUND all had at least one preview, and a Feature Presentation logo preceding the Classics motion graphic intro.

Second, the FBI and anti-piracy warnings were red-orange, not green like on the other Classics tapes.

Something seemed "older" about this release because of that. I also want to make a weird-ass sidenote, and say that as a kid - the logo for DUMBO on this cover (in pretty much in the movie, proper) always looked like the Marshmallow Fluff logo to me. Those big, tall, blue serif letters... Something about the two registered and connected in my little autistic brain as a toddler. DUMBO and Fluff.

Our oldest Disney tapes, period, were all Winnie The Pooh. We had the Walt Disney Mini-Classics releases of the four theatrical Pooh featurettes, all of those VHSes came out in fall 1989, but our printings were from mid-1990 onwards. We also had the second grab-bag compilation volume of THE NEW ADVENTURES OF WINNIE THE POOH, that tape also came out around the same time. What else? We also had the Disney Sing Along Songs volume UNDER THE SEA, an August 1990 release that also opened with the red-orange FBI warnings and had no previews on it. And another NEW ADVENTURES tape, Volume 6, which came out in 1991. There's actually a photo of me, roughly a year old, holding that tape - sitting around somewhere, lol.

So that DUMBO one seemed the oldest, and it also helps that the film itself was the second oldest out of all the ones we had in the Classics line. PINOCCHIO first came out in 1940, DUMBO in 1941, it just added to the vintage-ness. This was waaaaay before I looked up the order of Disney films, what their release dates were, etc. That would become a thing for me when I was around 8. I'll also add that those FBI warnings use the font Exotica Bold, which gives Golden Age of Hollywood aesthetics. Yep, it all ties together.

Whenever I was at someone else's place, I'd notice that their Disney VHSes were... Ones I didn't have, ones I didn't even know existed. I'd also notice these at my local video rental stores.

And that, there were "Classics" versions of titles that I associated with the Masterpiece Collection: CINDERELLA, BAMBI, THE JUNGLE BOOK, like wow! They all had different cover artworks, that looked older than the ones I was familiar with. And they all opened with that Sorcerer's Apprentice Mickey Mouse introduction! These actually existed! That *blew* my mind at age 8-ish!

Then one day, I saw an earlier version of DUMBO. The 1985 cover artwork, with the pink spine... Though it was a later issue from late 1986.

So there was *another* Classics version of DUMBO? That also blew my mind!

Then a few years later, in around mid-2005, I came across a fan page dedicated to these releases. Back when information wasn't as commonplace as it is now. The person who made up the page thought the line began in 1988 and ended in 1993 with ALADDIN, that's how outdated it is now. And there I saw... That cover of DUMBO, again. That's right, that thing existed! That older pink DUMBO cover...

I wanted to get it.

And I got it shortly thereafter. This was around, I want to say June-August ish of 2005? I was like 12 and 3/4... and from that summer onward, I became a full-fledged Disney VHS collector.

[fagcrisis]

i love the fbi anti piracy warning on the illegal stream

[mostlysignssomeportents]

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[abiital]

fbi anti piracy but it's YOU WOULD CAR HAMMER EXPLODE A CEO

[artg211-donovanle]

Weekly Explorations #9: Scan Lines

Process #1: Rays

Characteristics: Bright, Golden, Intense

Process #2: Shadow Play

Characteristics: Dark, Puppet, Manipulated

Process #3: Scan Lines

Characteristics: Linear, Retro, Low-Resolution

Chosen Topic: Scan Lines

Why? Scan line were once a reminisce point in our lives and has been slowly been forgotten overtime.

Keywords:

Old

1990s

Static

Linear

Creation

Snapshot

Mask

Summary:

For this week's weekly exploration, we had to choose a design from the Shapes category where I chosen scan lines as my design choice. Scan lines were once a popular thing among CRT displays on TVs and gives a sense of nostalgia for those who seen them back in the early days whenever it was for the VHS tapes or DVD discs played on a small grey digital box that makes static noises if you touch the glass.

Application: Adobe Photoshop + Illustrator

Creative Concept:

My concept is something that everyone has seen in the early days and has always been the scare factor for young folks. The FBI Anti-Privacy Warning seal dominates every beginning of the VHS or DVD where people probably brush it off as an advisable warning for those who dare try to copy content. But several years later, this has slowly faded away and the FBI actually everyone use the Anti-Piracy Warning seal for free, and without registering for copyright protection, which I didn't know about.

[hellohowyme]

When I become the unopposed supreme emperor of the USA(or the world im not picky) I will be doing the following:

Establish the Bureau of Fossil Finding

Break up Google and Amazon

Ban Facebook and ticktock

Leave Twitter alone cause whatever Musk's trying to do is funny

funding will be appropriated for fossil digs

Sell off surplus military hardware from police to the public, funds will be used to provide fossil to hospitalized children

ATF will be shut down for being a useless organization, funding will be appropriated for fossil digs

FBI will be downsized, extra funding will be appropriated for fossil digs

CIA will be closed for redundancy, useful agents will be transferred to military, funding will be appropriated for fossil digs

Lockheed Martin will be given a yearly budget to develop a fight jet with a cruising speed of mach 4, stealth capabilities, a nose mounted laser gatling, and nuclear air to air missiles (not to mention look slick as hell). The C variant will be able to be dropped from obit

All troops and equipment will be brought back from overseas, the budget savings will be redirected to Paleo genetic research

The post office will be funded by selling cocaine, it will still be illegal

Prison will be abolished, instead convicts will serve out their time at the labor camps fossil digs

The death penilty will be replaced with the more controversial chamber where all the robots scream at you penilty

Imigrants who want to become citizens can volunteer for and complete ten years at the fossil digs

PepsiCo will be contracted for anti piracy navel operations

As a condition of it's continued existence New York city is only allowed to nominate suitable large subway rats to elected office

If Canada does anything to annoy me Alberta will be anexed(just Alberta), the citizens will be recruited to to exterminate invasive species across the country

Introduce a new dollar standard backed by trilobite fossils

Move all of area 51s secrets to the secreter area 69

Issue licenses to smuggle to the cartes on the condition they police the border for us

News org are required to have a community notes directly below the headline

If 60% or of a medical insurance companys customers agree to form a lynch mob they can kill the CEO with no legal repercussions

If a citizen spend s more than 8 hours a day on 4chan they will be abducted to the 4chan cyber warfare bunker at area 69

Middle school will not be required, students can instead opt to go on an adventure

When negotiating prices for medical devices and drugs the buying party is allowed to bring a hitman (for emotional support)

Minimum wage is set by the unions

Hospitals are not only required to post their prices publicly but must also offer a 10% senior and veteran discount

All new public buildings inexplicably have a stoat relief carved into the stone work.

[king-of-wrath]

Wretch was caught off guard by the hug, but reciprocated---even though he couldn't reach all the way around her.

Briefly glancing over one of the racks, he found a VHS tape he liked and pulled it out. "Oh, here's a good one!" he exclaimed before inserting it into the VCR. After the FBI anti-piracy warning disappeared, the Dreamworks logo came across the screen.

"The animations are beautiful and the water looks so real. I dunno why the studio stopped using it and went to computer graphics, especially since the movies that had it were really good."

@king-of-wrath

Lucatiel was sporting a new outfit she had just bought. Humming along as she made her way. She stops short, feeling something hit her in the rear. It was abrupt and followed by the sound of something or someone hitting the ground. She turns to look, a concerned look on her face.

"Oh dear! Are you okay sweetie? Do you need a hand?"