Friday, September 11, 2009
Media Anti-Piracy Video Sequel Just As Bad As Original, More Offensive
Posted by Jon Blistein on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:30 PM
In case you couldn't tell by the collapsing music industry, "Don't Copy That Floppy" has surprisingly failed to make an impression on the youth of yesterday (so much for getting them when their young and impressionable). So seventeen years later, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA, formerly the SPA) has brought back MC Double Def DP and his anti-piracy jams to raise the proverbial awareness roof on illegal downloading and copyright infringement in the twenty-first century. And, oh my god, is this video beyond ridiculous. Apparently seventeen years ago, copying a floppy disc would only put people out of jobs and destroy technology; but today, you can also get arrested, spend time in federal prison, and have your mother attacked by a SWAT team while in she's in pajamas and curlers. The rest of the video is more or less an embarrassment: there are dancing Klingons and a nonsensical reference to the game Doom, while the video itself looks like it was shot on the budget of a really, really cheap porno (green screens galore!). But the worst part—which is saying something—comes towards the end when three black inmates assault the recently convicted pirate with broomsticks in prison. Ah, racism.
It's pretty useless to discuss the resounding failures of "Don't Copy That 2"—the video pretty much speaks for itself. Although any attempts to curb internet piracy at this point are going to be completely futile: It's simply much too rampant. With any luck though, groups like the SIIA, RIAA, and MPAA will keep making this horrific videos and continue to slowly implode. Or maybe they could try working out some legitimate compromises instead of simply suing anyone that gets in their way.
In the meantime, I'm gonna go download me that new Jay-Z album. You know, just because.
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