Anti-piracy Ad - Piracy. It's a Crime

[deadish]

That's a really fast download speed considering she's downloading a movie with 2003 internet.

[CometMedalChavez]

This is actually the highest quality I've ever seen this ad in.

Also, this piracy ad scared the ever loving shit out of me as a kid. Now it's just a really badass advert to me, with equally badass music, which interestingly, was actually pirated.

[baileymcnee]

Love watching a pirated copy of a anti-piracy advertisement with a pirated sound track ;)

[josiet]

I used to hate being forced to watch this and not being able to forward through it. Look at me now, choosing to watch it at my own free will!

[adamsinclair]

The font, the filter, the music... it's all just so gloriously early-2000s, to the point that this once kind of annoying mandatory ad has become iconic to anyone who grew up during that time.

[jake_dev]

Me in 2011:
Puts dvd in drive
Tv: Piracy, it’s a crime

[themysteriousoa]

When I was younger, I used to be terrified by this whenever a movie had this. Nowadays, when I come here to listen to the awesome music, I’m really enjoying it!

[pipster]

I saw this right after the Garfield movie trailer played each time I would watch a 20th century fox movie.

[mcbadrobotvoice]

This played before pirates of the carrabian and I mean that’s just funny

[tabthecabbit]

Little kid me: *wanting to watch a Pink Panther cartoon video*

The DVD: *unholy fear-mongering in an anti-piracy commercial*

[hopeoconnor]

That girl made a smart choice near the end of this commercial. Imagine what would've happened if she didn't cancel that film download.

[mollymyers]

considering how often this ad appeared, really did have the opposite effect, now didn't it?

[AManOnline.]

This works really well as an ad. It's memorable and gets it's point across. Can't ask for much more than that

[zorrovulpa]

“You wouldn’t pirate music and use it ironically in an ad for a campaign about piracy”

[jayyrigoy]

"Back in 2006, Buma/Stemra approached a Dutch musician, Melchior Reitveldt, to write some music for an anti-piracy ad, with the strict proviso that this music would be played only and exclusively at a local film festival. Mr. Reitveldt wrote the music, it was played, he got paid and all was well.

But then, in 2007, he bought a Harry Potter DVD and to his surprise, there was his music in the anti-piracy ad at the beginning. His composition had been taken and used without his permission. In fact, it had been illegally used on dozens of movie DVDs, both in Holland and overseas. You probably have one at home right now.

So Mr. Reitveldt went to the Buma/Stemra music royalty collection agency to clear up this misunderstanding, and ran into a brick wall. Nothing happened for a long time, and then pathetically small refunds were offered, and then they weren't paid in full, and the delaying tactics went on and on.

Finally, in 2011, about half a decade after the original theft of his music, there was a kind of a breakthrough. Supposedly, one of the directors of Buma/Stemra music royalty collection agency, Mr Jochem Gerrits, spoke to him personally, offering to speed things up. Everything would proceed nicely, if the musician, Mr. Reitveldt, would simply sell the contested piece of music to him, Mr Gerrits. The payout would be one million Euros, and Mr Gerrits would keep one third for all his trouble and hard work, and the musician, Mr. Reitveldt, would keep two thirds.

It's a bit like having somebody steal your property, you report it to the police, and after a lot a dilly-dallying, a senior police officer approaches you offering to give two-thirds of your property back to you, if you give them one third.

Luckily, the musician recorded the conversation. The crooked director of the Buma/Stemra music royalty collection agency had to resign. In June 2012, the court ordered Buma/Stemra to repay the money."

[largeformatmaster]

I used to think that there was a Rated I, not realizing that it's just an ad not to purchase pirated films.

[metalheadmermaid]

I had a random flashback to my childhood. I specifically remembered this ad playing on all my favorite DVDs. I wanted to see it again 🤣

[qwkpops]

child: *goes to watch charlie and the chocolate factory*




the dvd: *you wouldn't steal a car*

[guichabanaano]

I loved when this popped up while playing a DVD

[mngur]

rewatching the boondocks and they made a parody of this and it reminded me of how much anxiety it caused me as a kid. Genuinely scared me, it wasn't even the idea of getting caught for downloading movies but the music, fast pace, camera quality etc.