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morgue-xiiv · 2 years ago

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It JUST hit me how incredibly stupid the antipiracy ads in front of films were. Because like. I knew the were stupid, they were yelling "do not do this crime!" to EXACTLY the people who had just chosen NOT to do this crime BUT a lot of those people probably didn't know that crime was possible!

How many people saw an ad saying "downloading movies for free online is illegal" in front of a film they paid to see and thought "wait you can download movies for free online? Oh I'll start doing that then".

This was invisible to me as a kid cos I thought everyone knew how to torrent shit, but now the next generation only knows iPhone hot chip and lie, I realised like. They literally just advertised piracy to our less savvy parents.

"wow thanks for paying to see this film, did you know you didn't have to do that? Like you can just go online and pirate stuff. It's free! And you won't have to see this stupid bossy advert! JSYK it is stealing so make sure you cover your ass and don't get into trouble :)"

I hope they've updated the ads to show the lawbreaking kid getting a VPN before illegally downloading the film so it's stayed contemporary.

#this is media commentary btw #if it sounds like I'm saying get a vpn and torrent stuff that's just because I'm commenting on media #I would never advocate for anything illegal #I paid for netflix and prime and paramount plus to help support the artists who make content #then I found out they don't actually get a noticeable ammount of residuals from online streaming #Interesting fact that #you would think companies would want to pay artists residuals #that way they can guilt customers into paying for a service to “support artists”#But hey I guess they love piracy that's why they kept advertising it to us as kids

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