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If you're watching television, it doesn't matter if the characters are drug-smuggling, whore-mongering, granny-beating, world-destroying murderers: the illegal downloading of movies and music is guaranteed to morally offend them. Any good character who doesn't fall in with this philosophy will learn their lesson by the end of the episode. Expect physical theft to be used as a comparison and/or a plot point. When you start a commercially released VHS tape, DVD, or Blu-ray Disc, they usually open with verbose, unskippable screens from the FBI or Interpol warning the viewer massive fines and time in jail can happen as a result of piracy. Many DVDs also include a PSA in the beginning about how piracy is wrong. In the most extreme cases, this segment can't be skipped... sometimes the disc can't even be stopped while it's playing. Ironically, the person who's logically most likely to see it is someone who legally paid to own a copy, because those who end up distributing these downloads like to edit them out. In Europe this can lead to three almost identical warnings in German (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), two in Dutch (The Netherlands and Belgium) at least three in French (France and Belgium and Switzerland again), two in Italian (Italy and, you guessed it, Switzerland), two in English (the UK and Ireland), a number of very similar Slavic languages as well as a number of similar warnings in the Nordic countries. The unintended side effect of browbeating legitimate paying customers while pirates don't see these warnings anyway has also led to subversions where DVDs will thank the viewer for paying for the movie. Keep Circulating the Tapes and Abandonware are related concepts. However, in regards to this trope, they are usually ignored. This is because companies that are the victims of such types of piracy often give subtle glances that they don't particularly care, may even actively encourage it, or have ceased to exist and so left the material in limbo, and tends to be virtually unsellable anyway, since it is often obsolete systems and formats that were commercially viable in the day but are now barely supportable now. Information Wants to Be Free, on the other hand, will usually pose a clear danger and demand swift action. Not that it will help much. Not to mention, people typically don't complain about Keep Circulating the Tapes and Abandonware anyways, since it's not hurting any business if the market's non-existent in the first place. See also New Media Are Evil, Even Evil Has Standards, Felony Misdemeanor, Copy Protection. See Digital Distribution for a form of media which can be tarred with the same brush. For the common catalyst on both sides of the argument, see DRM. Similar arguments are occasionally made against Fan Fic by authors, complete with the analogy to stealing cars. Also, see Internet Counterattack for one example of what happens when the pirates throw tantrums, as well as Flame War for what happens when pirates and anti-pirates collide online. This has resulted in a major shift in the way music artists actually make a living. The paradigm used to be you made money from selling albums and tours were to promote your new album so people would buy it. Nowadays the inverse is true—you make money from touring, and releasing an album is a way to encourage people to come to your shows. Just compare the relative costs of albums and tour tickets since popular music began. It should be noted that there are degrees to this. Most artists are okay with free distribution of live tapes or other material that isn't going to be officially released. Some artists are okay with free distribution of material that isn't out yet but will be in the future. Very few artists are okay with for-profit distribution of their officially released material. For the opposite trope, see Digital Piracy Is Okay. This is far from being a Discredited Trope or a Dead Horse Trope. It's more of a Cyclic Trope given how public opinion swings on the issue of copyright protection at any given time. Given you can now download a car... For the other kind of present-day pirates, who are generally agreed to be pretty evil, you want Ruthless Modern Pirates. noreallife |
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In the pirated version of Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman's glider cape will stop working after a set point, making the game unwinnable. This yielded an epic moment where one pirate asked on Rocksteady's forums how to fix the "bug" and was told "It's not a bug in the game's code, it's a bug in your moral code." This ultimately backfired when the buggy behavior starting cropping up in legitimate copies. | |
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One Dork Tower strip had Matt puzzled as to how his favourite game system was going bust when everyone he knew owned all their products. It turned out that nobody he knew had bought any of their products. | |
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Adventure Time treats this trope as seriously as they do everything else. Finn and Jake are in the habit of hosting movie nights for their friends, but when the FBI warning about unauthorized public performance is pointed out to them, they react in horror and refuse to show any more movies, because they can't get permission and heroes don't break the law. The main reason they can't get permission in the first place is that they just so happen to live on a post-apocalyptic Earth, several thousand years after the civilization that made those movies (and the FBI warnings) was destroyed, and they've been finding the tapes in the rubble of old cities. | |
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An episode of the family sitcom series Smart Guy started out with this Aesop with the main character buying pirated games from a person he met online. Said character immediately jumps off the slippery slope by revealing he only pirates games so he can seduce little boys. The moral? Either "People who pirate software are pedophiles" or perhaps "if you pirate software, a 30-year old man will try to rape you." | |
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A bit of a twist on the Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog DVD: the FBI warning changes to reveal a warning from the Evil League of Evil itself, only allowing evil use of the DVD. | |
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Metallica — more specifically, drummer/co-founder Lars Ulrich — became notorious in the early 2000's for their hardline stance against peer-to-peer downloading, to the point of (technically successfully) suing Napster. Ulrich and the band have chilled out on digital media significantly in the following decades (from releasing music on streaming platforms and giving free digital copies to concert attendees) but the sheer unpopularity of their crusade led to even more of their songs becoming downloaded, not to mention many potshots throughout pop media. | |
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Both played straight and parodied in the intro for the Film Cow Master Collection DVD (from the guy who did Charlie the Unicorn). Disguised as an unskippable video on why piracy is wrong, it's actually nonsensical (and entirely skippable). | |
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Antihero for Hire mused on suddenly being strafed with mini-nuclear explosions: | |
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Space Ghost Coast to Coast plays this for laughs at the beginning of "Knifin' Around", with Space Ghost's failed attempt at copying a Radiohead CD. At worst, Thom Yorke was only amused at the sight of the supposed CD burner blowing up. | |
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Gaming Wildlife, a production of Channel Awesome, has released videos about video game piracy and emulation, which in general come off as paid corporate-sponsored propaganda videos. The videos make such wild claims as "people who pirate games are naturally bad at games" and generally try to guilt, shame and insult anyone who doesn't pay money. | |
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Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games features a mission where you raid a shack of armed software pirates, recovering the master CD of the game you are playing. | |
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In Bones The team learns that their boss once was in a 70s blaxploitation flick and absolutely have to get their hands on a copy, but the film is out of print. The following dialogue ensues: She ends up contacting the director via email, who finds the last remaining print in his garage, and sends it to her by mail. |
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Presented with a patient who has shoved an MP3 player up his ass, House plays this for humor when he passes the dirty work on to Dr. Cuddy — along with the message that the RIAA wants her to check for illegal downloads. | |
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Robotboy did a weird take on this: in one episode, Gus used Robotboy to pirate an unreleased video game, which messed with the poor robot's brain and caused him to hallucinate that he was a character in the game and surrounded by hostile aliens. Not having learned his lesson after the initial few outbursts, a later scene had Tommy getting a call from Gus and refusing to let him use Robotboy to pirate another game. | |
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The Simpsons: Not exactly digital piracy in the sense of downloading movies/music, but when Homer got stolen cable (cable, now, being digital for many North Americans, though arguably not at the time), this trope is played remarkably straight. Even the guy who hooks up the cable is later shown to be stealing car stereos and breaking into houses. Homer, who's shown to have stolen from Moe's and work and is an unabashed alcoholic and Jerkass, comes to view this (although only after Lisa and Marge guilt-tripped him to the point he gave in) as a kind of evil even he can't support. In "Funeral for a Fiend", commercial skipping is treated as something akin to piracy... somewhat... It all starts with Homer going out to buy a battery, but he gets it for free because he used the choice of buying a $200 TiVo with subscription. After installing it, the Simpsons, especially Marge, start getting used to skipping commercials. But then Marge falls asleep and has a nightmare with Keith Olbermann warning against such a terrible action, so she starts watching all commercials. It is then that her woke-up family meet her in the living room and a new restaurant ad appears; they like it, so they happily go to the restaurant opening. When they arrive there, they discover an empty room and the restaurant owner ties them up in chairs. They had fallen into Sideshow Bob's newest murder plot. So, Digital Piracy Is Okay and you shouldn't watch TV commercials so you don't end up killed? In "Steal This Episode", Homer sets up a movie theater showing pirated movies in his backyard, but Marge rats out the operation to the FBI. After hiding in the Swedish consulate, because they have a lax notion of copyright, he gets arrested and put on trial by a large group of Hollywood stars and producers. However, after it's pointed out that it's a David vs Goliath type of situation, they let Homer off, and even make a movie out of the whole story. Homer then moves on to criticizing people for pirating the movie (even though it's a story of how piracy is cool), and in the end, Lisa concludes that while both sides call themselves noble, both are just greedy. In that same episode, as Homer is hauled off to jail along with a busload of convicted felons, he tells them what he's in for. Every single one of them is utterly disgusted by Homer's piracy. |
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Geoff Thew from Mother's Basement avidly believes this. In his video "There's NO GOOD REASON to Pirate Legally Available Anime" he goes on about not just the moral aspects, but also counters the reasoning of those who say that Digital Piracy Is Okay. In the end, he points out the importance of the economic aspects: if we don't buy the product, the industry won't be able to sustain its supply. On the other hand, his zealous stance and unwillingness to platform the arguments he tries to rebut got him into a bit of controversy when he was called out by fellow anime Youtuber Uniquenameosaurus, who made two videos arguing in favor of pirating anime on the grounds of questionable industry practices and inadequate consumer options. As of May 2020, Geoff's video has about equal likes and dislikes. | |
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iCarly: Carly and her friends don't seem to have a problem with it but they use anti-piracy laws to get one of their Sadist Teachers arrested. Referenced in another episode, where Carly's apartment is used as a base when police investigate a nearby store allegedly selling pirated movies. Turns out they were literally just pirate movies. |
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In Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, you can try and convince demons to join your party if they like you enough. They randomly ask what your hi-tech helmet does, and one of the possible answers is that it plays ROMs easily. If you choose this answer, the demon proceeds to call you "worse than a demon" before instantly attacking you. | |
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One singer in The Night's Dawn Trilogy, who does interstellar tours rather than just the usual planetary ones, takes great satisfaction in depriving starship crews of one of their main revenue sidelines: Since she sells recordings everywhere she goes, there's no real market for their bootlegs of her work. | |
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Minus the "digital" part, this is the key trope for The Dukes of Hazzard's very own second episode, since we see Boss Hogg's bootleg record operation in action. Justified in that Daisy is being conned out of her legitimately-owned royalty earnings. In the same fashion, there is a 4th season episode in which we see Hogg's bootleg operation in action again as country star Mickey Gilley performs a major concert at the Hazzard Town Square. Boss uses the opportunity to confer with record pirates to record the concert and sell records on the black market, pining the fault on the Dukes. |
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Borderlands 2 parodies this attitude with the questgiving NPC Censorbot, a Hyperion loader obsessed with conservative values and, obviously, censorship in particular. The second quest he gives you sends you to a literal pirate den, where you kill pirates and collect physical copies of their pirated "ECHO sims"; Censorbot feels death is the only appropriate punishment for their crime, and openly wishes all DRM could simply shoot the user in the face. | |
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MC Frontalot has a song called "Charity Case" in which he literally begs his listeners to buy his music so he won't starve. | |
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In Hard Candy, Jeff Kohlver offers to send a bootleg MP3 (from the Goldfrapp concert he claims to have seen) to Hayley, after meeting her in a coffee shop: | |
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In Caprica, Daniel Greystone invented the holonet, which is exactly what it sounds like—a virtual reality, holographic Internet. Greystone Industries had huge problems with digital piracy and people finding all sorts of loopholes to get free access, which they tried to stop to no avail. While on a talk show with his wife, Daniel has an epiphany, and declares that the basic service will now be completely free. When his board tries to vote him out, he explains his reasoning: They were already losing. By fighting the inevitable, they only painted themselves as the bad guys. By making it free, they generated massive amounts of good will. The board votes in favor of keeping him as CEO. | |
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Murder at Colefax Manor: Averted with the free PDF version of the book, released by the author. | |
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Alien Hand Syndrome: Here, Mina feels guilty about downloading pirated comics, but she only does it because she was scared off visiting comic stores by a bad childhood experience. Erin seems to think piracy is OK even though she's rich and can afford all the comics she wants. | |
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In the DVD version of Excel♡Saga the FBI Warning at the beginning is parodied with a warning from ACROSS and threatens pirates with a punishment involving tar-and-feathering and a depraved walrus. This warning had its formatting altered for its release in other regions to make it resemble the warnings found on DVDs in those regions as well. | |
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Slackerz parodied the "Don't copy that floppy!" ad to show us that when you copy a game, you destroy the universe. | |
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The Oatmeal's "I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what happened'', with a dose of Good Angel, Bad Angel, shows how digital piracy can be justifiable. | |
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Game Dev Tycoon turns the tables on people who play pirated copies of the game by having your in-game customers pirate the games you make in the game, eventually making the game Unwinnable by Design. The proper game has a (one-off) piracy event where you can do nothing about it or try to sue. A later update introduced "Pirate Mode", where the player's games are pirated on a regular basis, but the player can implement Copy Protection in order to slow them down. | |
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Mario Party DS Anti Piracy focuses on the (fictional) Copy Protection of Mario Party DS. Hints show that these measures were added by a rogue employee who believes in this trope to an extreme, to the point of adding an entire character to punish pirates and who can manifest in the real world to kill them or call the cops to arrest them. | |
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At the start of one issue of Ellis' Nextwave, there's a somewhat tongue-in-cheek bit which says "You have just bought a copy of NEXTWAVE (unless you stole it off the Internet)" | |
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Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger had an interplanetary MegaCorp that owned all copyrights up to brain-stripping elderly scientists and artists, at which point an alliance led by Empire of the Seven Systems declared war on them and shot their CEO out of a railgun at the moon. The name of that corporation, the R.I.A.A. (though it might be the RIAA; Earth is implied to be part of the Empire). | |
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Dethklok visits a record store in the season 3 premiere of Metalocalypse, where the announcement is made that "This record store will be closing in five minutes. Forever. Because it's a record store. Enjoy illegally downloading all your music." The band also has their own method of fighting piracy. They send strike teams to kidnap anyone who has illegally downloaded their songs. The downloads come with a warning, though. Because Dethklok sales are so vital to the world economy, the UN allows them to carry this on. |
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Printed on the CD of (The) Melvins' (A) Senile Animal is a rather different version of the typical FBI Warning. It's ambiguous as to whether it's meant as an over-the-top parody of the normal warning, an expression of the band's actual thoughts on piracy, or something in between: | |
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Sometime after the release of Everblack, Trevor Strnad posted a lengthy diatribe on the band's Facebook page about how downloading only hurt them. Not only were downloaders not "sticking it to the man" by downloading their material, but they actually had the potential to jeopardize their standing with the label if downloading sufficiently weakened their sales to the point that they had reason to believe that they were becoming old news, which could mean anything from reduced support to being dropped altogether. Trevor also went on to state that yes, they did make enough to live comfortably, but that they were nowhere near rich and still needed to work their asses off for that money. | |
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The manuals for each of Bungie's Marathon installments had a "Please don't pirate!" disclaimer. | |
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The Daily Show has Jon Stewart advertise his show's full availability on Comedy Central's own website moments after referencing the Viacom lawsuit against YouTube, while The Colbert Report ends some episodes with an advertisement to "watch every clip ever!" online. | |
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Cormorant subverts this, having no beef with pirates but preferring that they support the band at some point, but this trope is Played for Laughs on a joke Facebook post: | |
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The game also features a "save file erasure" thing similar to EarthBound (1994), although in a more subtle manner: instead of just taking you back to an empty "select your save file" screen, it stops the boss battle against the Sorceress and then a travel-between-worlds Saving-Loading Screen appears, and after it, you return back to the Sunrise Spring Home with your hot air balloon, with the only difference that your save file has been written with a new status - namely, a fat zero over everything you can collect. To sum it up, instead of erasing your save file, the game resets it back to the beginning. You can see it here. | |
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Similarly in the older Wolfenstein 3-D: | |
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The Swedish version of the Donald Duck magazine ran a strip in which Donald Duck starts a pirated CD business. He then is threatened with being sued by his uncle Scrooge, who owns the record company, and ends up on his knees begging for forgiveness. Interestingly enough, the same story has Huey, Dewey and Louie download a song illegally and get away scot-free... then again, they're only downloading it to "sample" the CD and at the end of the story have bought it. Unlike Donald, they're not actually burning and trying to sell pirated CDs. | |
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Penny Arcade seems to hold this view, evidenced here and here. Unusually, they lampoon the makers of DRM as well as the pirates, something the usual designers of stealth PSAs rarely do. Considering the first part of the second example, and some of the earliest strips, they admit that it's somewhat ingrained into the gaming culture. It's kind of a Broken Aesop, see: here, here and here. Especially when getting your console modded usually violates the DMCA and/or any End User Agreements. |
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Mr. Coat and Friends spoofed this at the end of this video. | |
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xXx did this on a meta level with the film's title, which was picked not just for its EXXXTREME connotations but also to make the film harder to find on torrent sites, which are already filled with things labeled "XXX". | |
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Fear Itself, a horror RPG, includes as part of its character creation process, asking the player to name the worst his character has ever done. The last example given is "illegally downloaded a role playing game off the Internet, depriving starving writers of their rightfully deserved income." | |
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The Young Ones used this trope in regards to TV license evasion, by having Vyvyan eat the evidence. | |
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In one Ghostwriter Story Arc, the villain turns out to be a VHS tape pirate (his case isn't helped by having started a fire earlier). | |
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A coked-up Pinkie Pie rants about digital piracy in the PONY.MOV series, and asks passerby how they'd feel if musicians came in and stole their things. | |
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In a Yenny story arc, the title character goes to see Transformers (2007) at a theater, but her lizard, Zacha, takes a camera with her to record the movie off the screen and sell pirated DVDs of it, much to Yenny's annoyance. | |
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After an unfinished form of one of System of a Down's albums was leaked under the name Toxicity II, they changed the name to Steal This Album!, and changed the art to look like it was a burned CD with the title hastily written in sharpie. It might also be a reference to the aforementioned Steal This Book. They've since said they don't care if fans pirate their music as long as it's the finished versions making the rounds. They were kind of pissed about the leak of the unfinished demos, however. | |
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In PS238, Zodon makes passing reference to Herschel possessing illegal MP3s, dubbing him a "Relativist" after he's forced to move cables used for sharing said MP3s as punishment for inside-trading of stocks. | |
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One episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent edges into this, although it's a bit more complicated than that; it involves organized crime running a DVD bootlegging operation and killing a former member because he tried to go around them to set up his own side business. | |
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Serious Sam 3: BFE has possibly the greatest DRM ever - if it detects your game is pirated, the game will summon an unkillable, impossibly fast pink Arachnoid to hunt you down and kill you in the first level. There's another layer to this protection, if you make it to the third level at some point it will make the player aim to the left and upward at the maximum possible speed, basically leaving them spinning in place and helpless as it is exceedingly difficult to counter. This protection is also used in some of the HD re-releases of the older games in the series. |
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Certain tracks on promotional copies of Alestorm's Black Sails at Midnight open with a voice-over of the vocalist saying "Yarrr, you’re listening to the new Alestorm album, Black Sails at Midnight... remember, piracy is a crime!", presumably in order to discourage the sharing of these tracks. Pretty weird that they try to combat pirates, considering that the band is pirate-themed. | |
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The Tales of... series has anti-piracy messages at the start of some of their games; when the game is booted up, a character will come on screen and talk about they're relying on the player to keep the industry alive, et al. | |
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Lazlow of GTA Radio fame hosts a satellite radio show periodically, of which he gives away the most recent episode, but sells the back catalog as a box set online. Upon learning that the entire box set was being passed around on torrents, he wrote an angry article and ranted about it during the following show. | |
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Parodied in Charlie Murder. The Rival, Gore Quaffer, has an IT guy who pirates Charlie Murder's albums... on-board a literal pirate ship no less. | |
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Kim Jung Hyun of Welcome to Room #305 berates his teenage sister for having manga downloads on her computer. | |
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The official Jardinains! website acknowledges that it's possible to pirate the 100 bonus levels, but claims that you'll get "a heaping portion of soul rending shame" (original emphasis) if you do it. | |
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In Gym Teacher: The Movie, a teacher tries to get rid of a troublesome student by planting enough pirated DVDs in his locker — "to prove intent to sell". | |
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On Wiseguy, the OCB treats Winston Newquay's record bootlegging operations with the same seriousness with which they approached Mel Profitt's drug empire or Rick Pinzolo's labor racketeering. | |
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Parodied in a live-action promo for the English release of Haruhi Suzumiya: Haruhi tells the viewers that downloading fansubs via BitTorrent is bad (especially odd considering Haruhi's usual attitude towards rules), immediately followed by a flashing sign saying "THIS EPISODE NOW AVAILABLE VIA BITTORRENT". At the end of this and all the other promos, the credits take a more serious stance: thanking fansub watchers that buy the DVDs after they come out and condemning those that do not. | |
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On a sketch from Cleveland's Big Chuck & Lil John Show Lil John has just been incarcerated for five years. When his cellmates ask him what he's in for, he says he dubbed a copy of Cinderella for his daughter. | |
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Seinfeld: One episode had Kramer convince Jerry to get an illegal cable hookup. Jerry subsequently has a dream where he's busted, and is shot hundreds of times while trying to make a run for it, dying in Kramer's arms. In "The Tiny Kicks", Kramer gives an opening night pass ticket to a movie to a "friend" who videotapes the movie off the screen for street sales. When he takes ill, Jerry is forced into finishing the taping... and does such a good job that he is given other assignments. |
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If you downloaded a pirated copy of Far Cry 4, you will be stuck with a low FOV with no ability to adjust it to your preference. When players flooded complaints about the FOV on Ubisoft's forum and on Reddit, Alex Hutchinson (the game's director) tweeted that they are accidentally revealing that they pirated the game. | |
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Parodied in pirated copies of Just Shapes & Beats, where the game admonishes you in a parody of the "You Wouldn't Steal A Car" PSA. Then a message from Lachhh (one of the developers) plays telling you he's also pirated games and to enjoy the game and support the developers through words. | |
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Members of Skinless revealed during an interview promoting their 2015 album, Only The Ruthless Remain, that they were not only aware of the supposed pirate copy of the album already widely circulating among online Death Metal communities, but had even listened in...and found it was actually their 2003 album From Sacrifice To Survivalnote considered an Audience-Alienating Era by the fans and subject to heavy Creator Backlash by the band's current members as well as Origin's John Longstreth, who played drums on the album with Ruthless's track titles digitally bolted on the front. Their demeanor during this could easily be described as "amused", although they declined to state whether they themselves had anything to do with the mix-up. | |
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Neptunia has Nintendo DS flashcarts (and Custom Firmware) as the Big Bad. Yes, this trope is applied literally In-Universe, and even justified: the patron goddess of each console grows weaker if they lose market share, and nobody benefits from pirate sales. mk2 and Victory continue the theme. By Victory, you have a council of villains including members with names like Pirachu (an intentionally obvious Pikachu knockoff) and Copypaste. |
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Beware of Illegal Videocassettes and Pirate Videos and Daylight Robbery are just two examples of these ads in the UK, along with the above example. The "piracy funds terrorism" ad sometimes appeared on VHS tapes from other companies, such as the UK release of Disney's Snow Dogs. | |
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Teen Titans (2003) had an episode where Beast Boy illegally downloaded a game and it gave Cyborg a virus since he did it on Cyborg's power charger which he mistook for a computer. It had Cyborg seeing food-based hallucinations. It was one of the more realistic examples (aside from the question of how a power charger could play a game and store a virus in the first place, much less transfer that data to Cyborg rather than just charge his batteries). He downloaded a supposed prerelease of a very popular and anticipated game. Those sorts of things would be prime targets for viruses. Then again, what do you use nowadays to charge your cellphone? | |
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On 30 Rock, Liz listed the things "I don't do", which included "I don't download music without paying for it." Averted in "Believe in the Stars," where Jack tries to prove there's a limit to Kenneth's Incorruptible Pure Pureness. Jack is eventually able to entice him to steal his neighbors' cable, which remains pretty much the only bad thing Kenneth ever did on the show. Even immortal Pollyannas can be tempted by SpongeBob SquarePants. | |
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The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons has the poet Martin Silenus thrust into massive debt when his second book bombs horribly. It's actually quite popular amongst the AI, but only one of them actually bought a copy; that AI then transmitted the contents to every other AI in existence. "Interstellar copyright doesn't mean shit when you're dealing with silicon." | |
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In Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, specifically the mission "Tunnel Rat", you will find your target (an Afghani arms dealer) in a back room, checking out his stash of contraband. The target will be in his closet admiring his pirated copies of Hitman. | |
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Parodied mercilessly by a Red vs. Blue public service announcement, "The RvBIAA". Church and Sarge are complaining about people pirating Red vs. Blue instead of buying the DVD, with the other cast members trying to explain to them that A) it's already on the web for free, and B) they haven't released a DVD yet (which has since happened). In a later Achievement Hunter video Geoff talked about originally having no issue with digital piracy until he discovered an entire series they had produced on torrent. Realizing the lost revenue from something they had put so much work into he abruptly found himself siding with the anti-piracy crowd. | |
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Quite literal in ReBoot, with actual software pirates. They quit the evil part after being shown how much profit can be made in legitimate business, but still act like pirates. | |
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Played with in the "Downloaded Music Awards" in one Kim Possible episode: | |
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One might think this is a modern trope, but one episode of What's Happening!! shows concert bootleggers (Way back before the music industry tried to conflate copyright infringement with privateering, they used to try to conflate it with alcohol smuggling) as a gang of murderous thugs. | |
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There is also a longer variant in Southeast Asia and the Philippines with clips from Dumbo, Cinderella, and 101 Dalmatians shown and the children's accents and dialogue, as well as the VHS effects, were changed. It can be viewed here. | |
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In SCOOB!, Dick Dastardly is stated to be a villain because he doesn't pay for Netflix. | |
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The Boondocks In "A Date with the Health Inspector", Jazmine's father Tom condemned his wife for downloading music not for any moral reason, but out of an irrational fear of being caught and sent to prison (and then being anally raped). In "...Or Die Trying", after Granddad forced Jazmine to accompany him and the boys while they sneak into the movies, an ad that played before the movie compared digital piracy (and "stealing movies") to murder and featured a movie stuntman who said that it hurts when someone "steals all that work". Jazmine started crying, said "I'm sorry, Mr. Stuntman," and wanted to turn herself in to her father, the assistant district attorney. The actual episode ends with Huey saying they should have just downloaded the movie off the Internet instead of sneaking into the theater. |
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In The Web of The Spider-Man, Peter is worried what Ben and May would think of him if they learned of the immoral, clandestine, and illicit things that he does at Ned's house... then it turns out that he's just talking about streaming anime and it isn't quite as "super clandestine, illicit or necessarily immoral" as he might think it is, especially since he's running on a tight budget anyhow. | |
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Year Zero: The galactic civilization that gets in touch with the protagonists did so because they respect each planet's local copyright laws so much, they went into a tizzy because they had started file-sharing our radio and music broadcasts before they found out Earth's laws. Not only do we have the best music, we have the most stringent laws and fines/penalties... and they want a lawyer on their side. | |
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Charger Girl had several anti-piracy promos that played at the beginning of the each episode. | |
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I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC addresses this in "Public Service Announcement", where the casts of Watchmen and X-Men encourage viewers not to pirate X-Men Origins, on the grounds that 1. It hurts the ordinary people who work in the entertainment industry well before it does anything to the big, fat, well-publicized millionaires, and 2. In the meantime, the sales lost on Wolverine will give the edge to a bad chick flick. | |
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RiffTrax averts it with a donation page that can be summed up as "we know you've probably at least had the opportunity to grab our stuff without paying — it's the Internet, these things happen, toss us a few bucks here and we'll call it even." | |
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Pre-Internet example: In Night of the Comet, the biggest Jerkass is a movie-theater manager who covertly loans movie reels to an accomplice overnight so they can be copied, then sells the bootlegs. He becomes an Asshole Victim pretty quickly. Even funnier is when he negotiates for his cut, the other guy offers $100, which the jerk says isn't enough because the print is in 3-D (in 1984). When he is offered $110, the jerk says, "OK, now you're talking." |
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Futurama: In "Hell is Other Robots", one of the sins Bender is being punished for in Robot Hell is selling bootleg cassettes (in the year 3000). Cheating others and forging IOUs (both forms of stealing) is level two of Hell whereas piracy (another form of stealing) is level five. And, to add salt to the wound, he's punished by the artists he bootlegged in the first place: Beastie Boys. "A Clone of My Own" features the opening subtitle "Coming Soon to an Illegal DVD". In "I Dated a Robot", those who facilitate illegal downloads will also unleash killer Lucy Liu-bots to protect their sinister racket. In this case what's being downloaded illegally is personality imprints painfully derived from heads-in-jars being held prisoner for the purpose. Slightly different from a normal recording. Downloaded from Kidnappster.com! Spoofed with the Downloading Often Is Terrible extra on the Bender's Game DVD, which parodies that "You wouldn't do crime X" ad by having Bender reply that he has done those things. |
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Parodied in Iji where the Komato Imperial Weapons Industry claim that pirating weapons by combining two other nanotechnology weapons through cracking instead of paying their exorbitant prices is akin to high treason. Three crackers find ways to circumvent weaponry DRM, and have the bright idea of publishing them. Guess what happens when the crazy alien with a stolen nanogun finds them? She takes great pains not to hurt them? Since they were cracking down on the crackers before the events of Iji, where the crazy alien with the stolen nanogun wasn't an issue so much. Furthermore, KIWI's prices for the cracked weapons were ridiculous; in one example, it'd be some 32 times cheaper to buy the two weapons needed as components and crack them than buying it from KIWI. |
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There was a Scooby-Doo episode where the bad guys recorded songs from the radio, duplicated the tapes, and sold them by the thousands. This being Scooby-Doo, one of them had to smuggle the tapes out of the studio (hidden in a cave), dressed as a pterodactyl. There was also one where the bad guy was selling illegal copies of a video game. | |
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In the Darkwing Duck comic, Honker is arrested for downloading music, though the event is treated as a part of St. Canard's slide into an over-litigious laws-enforced-by-robots dystopia. | |
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The original strips of The Boondocks had a couple of Sunday strips parodying the anti-piracy videos in the beginning of movies. One of them was of a man bemoaning that downloading movies was taking money away from the people selling bootlegs off the street. | |
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Exterminatus Now: Apparently Inquisitorial immunity that covers everything up to genocide doesn't include file-sharing charges. | |
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Pirated copies of the German, French, and Italian releases of The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie send you right back to the language selection screen after selecting a language and the warning. | |
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The American release of the Chobits manga clothes its end-of-volume teasers as conversations between characters in the story, and in one makes sure to take a dig at "fan-scans". "No, I bought that book you mentioned and didn't click your immoral Internet link..." | |
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If your copy of Skullgirls is pirated, it will print the nonsense message "What is the square root of a fish? Now I'm sad." on the title screen. This became famous when a player accidentally outed himself as a pirate by asking the dev team about it on Twitter. | |
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The "Piracy is Stealing" campaign got referenced in The Amazing World of Gumball when Gumball and Darwin are considering their options regarding an overdue DVD which is now in several pieces: And then they make a cheap knockoff version of the movie instead. |
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Fairy Bloom Freesia: The manual ends with a warning of Freesia doing violence to the pirate: | |
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Referenced in another episode, where Carly's apartment is used as a base when police investigate a nearby store allegedly selling pirated movies. Turns out they were literally just pirate movies. | |
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In one of the first book of the Net Force series, author Steve Perry stops the action so that two characters can debate digital piracy. However, since the Anti-Piracy advocate is the dashing lantern-jawed hero, and the Pro-Piracy advocate is his 15 year old son, we are invited to shake our heads at the kid's "naive" arguments. | |
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This is the essence of "Dream Thieves" by Sonata Arctica | |
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In episode four of Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel, a group of small time thugs that got away from the titular magical girls team up. They include a costume fetishist, a burglar, a marriage swindler, and an uploader of illegal videos, presented as a fat otaku. The Angels consider him as bad as the other three. | |
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Robot Chicken had an ending gag around this, where some text debunked an argument about the damage caused by downloading movies on the economy as a whole, then stated that TV piracy, on the other hand, was destroying this great nation. | |
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Comedy writer and actor Adam Buxton created a song called "The Mind Of A Pirate", using bits of music from a bombastic piracy ad (the same one parodied in the above The IT Crowd example) that depicts "the mind of a pirate", who makes ridiculously evil statements about buying knock-off DVDs and downloading music. Interludes in the music involve Take That! after Take That! aimed at the entertainment industry and "artists" who are only interested in making music and movies for money. The pirate ends up destroying the world: | |
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Leverage: Hardison mentions having to route through three different satellites to get a decent signal and download the latest Doctor Who torrent — Parker turns on a lighter and says: "Hey... Illegal downloading is wrong!" Then she sets fire to a wastebasket inside a small van. This is especially ironic because Leverage is a gang of thieves and con men who repeatedly do things like steal from the Department of Defense. | |
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Young Justice (2010) plays with this trope. One episode involves a guy who sells pirated DVDs and video games, and Blue Beetle mentions that he will be arrested for it offscreen. While his piracy is depicted as a bad thing, Blue Beetle only got involved in the incident because he thought the guy was involved in something much worse, he barely even cared about the pirated merchandise, and it's made out to be small potatoes compared to his status as a Domestic Abuser. | |
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In Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Johnny implies that an illegal download would be judged just as harshly as a white lie. Then again, he states earlier on in his narration that the Ghost Rider has become so Knight Templar-crazy in the Time Skip between films that said "harsh judgement" would definitely get you killed, which is why he's been Walking the Earth and staying away from other people. | |
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Kappa Mikey: Parodied in one episode; when Mikey is unable to obtain a legal copy of the Lily Mu video game, he acquires a copy from pirates (complete with eye patches, wooden legs and parrots), accidentally selling Gonard in the process. At the end of the episode, Mikey promises himself to never prefer a video game to a good friend again. Then Ozu flips out the one last copy of the game, and Mikey and Gonard immediately start fighting over it. In season 2, we have "Back To School", where the crew has to work with a lower budget (cardboard cut-out props, costumes made out of paper, etc...) because they're losing money to grade schoolers getting pirated DVDs of their show instead of watching them on TV, and they spend the rest of the episode tracking down the culprit. |
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Guitar Hero - Played for Laughs. The description for the pirate (the kind that sails the high seas) themed guitar says "We all love pirates. That is, until they start sending illegal copies of your music throughout the Internet." | |
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Imperial Kommissar Fuclaw from /tg/ would like to remind you◊: downloading illegal MP3s is HERESY. | |
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An episode of Transformers: Animated dealt with it in an almost-Broken Aesop. The episode was mostly about illegal street racing, that Sari and Bumblebee would watch on bootleg cable, a subplot that felt like an afterthought compared to the rest of the episode. Once the street racing was dealt with, Bumblebee decided to cut their cable to "set an example" for Sari. Okay, not only did the whole piracy issue feel tacked onto the otherwise perfectly-fine street racing plot, but how did the Transformers have such a full grasp of the concept of piracy at a time when they were still getting a feel for Earth customs? | |
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Sarah Z shoots this trope to hell in The Weird World of Theatre Bootlegs regarding bootleg videos of Broadway shows. She raises the points that a) most shows are expensive to go to and someone who watches bootleg is doing so because they're unlikely to ever afford to see the show (due to ticket prices or being unable to travel for it), b) a pirated theatre show is very different from a pirated film, as the experience of theatre is largely dependent on being physically in the building (and a person who enjoys a bootleg version of a show might still be likely to pay to see it in the flesh if they get the chance), and c) sometimes a bootleg version of a show can be beneficial; the Heathers musical did poorly in its first run, but it developed a large fandom thanks to people watching bootleg videos of the show - and this led to a West End revival where it was much more successful. | |
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The Compleat Al begins with an anti-piracy notice that warns of the dangers of unlawful duplication, such as discoloration of fine upholstery, headaches, drowsiness, nausea, high blood pressure, the spontaneous combustion of pets, civil unrest, meteorological disturbances, volcanic eruptions, and the Earth falling out of its orbit and plunging into the sun. | |
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Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U was originally slated to have a story mode like the Subspace Emissary from Brawl, but the idea was scrapped when Masahiro Sakurai determined it would be pointless, since those who wanted to see the story could see the cutscenes uploaded to YouTube in lieu of actually buying the game. Instead, he decided to use YouTube to hype up the new game with trailers for each new character. | |
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Inverted in episode 50 of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, where Joey defends the series in court against charges of copyright infringement brought by the 4Kids Entertainment legal department. Funnily enough, turns out that 4Kids is fine with the abridged series. It's just bots that keep removing LittleKuriboh's accounts on YouTube. | |
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Diablo Swing Orchestra's albums Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious and Pandora's Piñata both have a notice on the back cover: "Unauthorized duplication, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing." | |
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In general, a lot of gaming channels on YouTube, especially those run by those who collect game cartridges and hardware, will be anywhere from passive-aggressive to outright vicious at the idea of playing old games on emulators. Though it does come off as a bit hypocritical of them to do so, since many of them admit to buying their game collections USED meaning the game companies don't see a dime off their purchases. | |
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The Dick Tracy comic went as far as creating a new roster of digital piracy-themed villains, and doing scare-messages at the end implying that parents could be arrested and thrown in jail if their children download an MP3. | |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 has a rather hilarious and mean one, if the game detects it's been pirated, then, no matter what, a few seconds after starting any map, your units, buildings and everything will EXPLODE. Resulting in an instant loss. This also occasionally happened on non-pirated versions of the game, even after weeks of being installed and running normally until the software checks started failing without obvious cause. |
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Not so much evil, but in No More Heroes, Diane from Beef Head Video Store calls Travis at the beginning of every new assassination chapter to remind him to return one of the various pornos he rented. In one call, she kindly tells Travis that one of the videos he returned to the store was a copy of one of their videos (he kept the real one). The recording ends a short while into the video. Diane asks Travis to please return the original copy. | |
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Played for laughs in the intro of GLA: Misassembled #2, where Squirrel Girl warns readers not to do anything Mr. Immortal does in this issue, "especially on page seven. That's where he downloads stuff off the Internet for free." | |
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Justified in Mac Hall. A three strip arc, which points out that while anti-piracy measures may be inconvenient, all the blather pirates throw around doesn't change the fact that they'll pirate from anyone, bad DRM or not. The strip was done in 2002, and still remains relevant. | |
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Pirated copies of Rogue increase the monster damage sixfold, and upon death, the player's tombstone lists their name as "Software Pirate" and the cause of death as "Killed by the Copy Protection Mafia". | |
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SNK made a knowing wink to their own piracy problems (from Chinese bootleggers, primarily) in NeoGeo Battle Coliseum, where the evil organization hosting the tournament is called WAREZ. | |
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Marvel Zombies 3 has a particularly out there lesson by showing a cyberpunk world where people consume media through cybernetic implants. An evil Jocasta of that world sets off a Zombie Apocalypse by installing malware in a pirated copy of a highly popular show that makes people it infects into mindless cannibals. | |
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South Park: The episode "Christian Rock Hard" has the kids download at most 2 songs from the Internet, but within seconds of the deed being done, the house is then stormed by FBI agents as if they were Waco or something. Afterward, the lead FBI agent takes them around the houses of various musicians who, as a result of illegal downloading, are now forced to buy slightly less glamorous private jets (ones without a remote control for the surround sound plasma screen TV and DVD entertainment system), not being able to buy a French-Polynesian island, or waiting a few weeks for luxuries rather than buying them now, as if it were a Christmas episode and the villain was being shown all the orphanages that were suffering as a result of his stinginess. A UK advertisement for the show was a song that contained these lyrics: |
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At the start of The Heist, Kate is assigned to assist the MPAA in breaking up a piracy ring. | |
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If Mirror's Edge thinks that you have a pirated copy of the game, it decides to slow Faith to a crawl at the most crucial of moments, such as building up speed to clear a big jump, effectively making the game impossible to play. See it in all its glory(?) here. | |
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It has gotten to the point where Nintendo purposely refuses to launch their services and Android games in countries that has black marks for piracy, for example, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp - a freemium Android game of all things. When asked why the game wasn't launched in Malaysia among many others, for example, Nintendo got their spokesperson to go on a long tirade about how the country's home to piracy and unauthorized modding and gloating that they will launch the game in those countries when the people stop piratingnote While it is undeniable that piracy exists in the country, it's mostly confined to the older generation with their nationalist anti-western, anti-Japanese attitude who feel it fair to give The Man the finger for treating them like slaves during the British colonial and Japanese rule, and this generation are dying out. In the meantime, the younger generation who're much more well educated go all out to buy original, which is clearly reflected in many polls and researches held in the country. Naturally, the true fans of the franchise who has never ever illegally downloaded the games are very angry, especially since piracy is also happening in other countries that the game is launched innote Very notably in Italy where music from the game were stolen wholesale and put into kiddie rides, and the Americas where all the "unauthorized modding" (ie cracks to get unlimited leaf ticket) originates. It's also hurting the sales of their hardware in the countries that were accused of piracy and thus denied of their services. | |
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The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat had an episode where Da King of another planet stole the Earth (he believed to have won the rights to it from gambling) for its "Felkron". When Felix confronted him for this, Da King showed a videotape to explain his reasons. The tape had an F.B.I. warning that illegal reproduction would result in "violent-type actions". An earlier episode "Night Drop" had Felix being eaten by a VCR when sleeping at a video store. The warning said "Do not copy this tape, or we will find you and flick your ear". |
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The Electric Wonderland comic "Shrooming With Shroomy" has a few scenes that promote this mindset while NJ, Aerynn, and Shroomy use the Internet to circulate some tapes that NJ's grandfather made of movies and shows that had recently become unavailable to stream. NJ and Aerynn have trouble deciding whether or not to adopt this attitude, since they know piracy has become illegal, but also that their business prevents old works from becoming forever lost to the public. They stop circulating the tapes in the end, after the company holding official distribution rights to those movies and shows passes on the rights to someone more willing to keep those works available. | |
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Pirated copies of DiRT: Showdown are perfectly playable........so long as you didn't mind random strings of text, like opponent names, being replaced with pirate-speak (eg. YARRRRR). | |
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In pirated copies of RUMU, at the end of the first act, the character Sabrina will lecture the player for pirating the game. The game will close, and a browser window to the game's Steam page will open. | |
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Family Guy: As soon as Peter tries to record Monday Night Football on his VCR, armed FBI officers kick down his front door demanding him to present the written consent from ABC and the NFL to record the show. Peter only has consent from ABC and so the FBI destroy his VCR. | |
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Given a wink in Transformers (2007), Glen Whitman confessing "I may have downloaded a couple thousand songs off the Internet, but who hasn't? WHO HASN'T?" during the interrogation scene. | |
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Spyro: Year of the Dragon, if you are playing a cracked copy, has Zoe the Fairy appearing at the latter part of Sunrise Spring telling you that your copy is hacked and may be an illegal copy, which will lead you to experience "problems" you would not experience on a legal copy. The game also features a "save file erasure" thing similar to EarthBound (1994), although in a more subtle manner: instead of just taking you back to an empty "select your save file" screen, it stops the boss battle against the Sorceress and then a travel-between-worlds Saving-Loading Screen appears, and after it, you return back to the Sunrise Spring Home with your hot air balloon, with the only difference that your save file has been written with a new status - namely, a fat zero over everything you can collect. To sum it up, instead of erasing your save file, the game resets it back to the beginning. You can see it here. |
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Another parody: the first thing you see upon starting up the Marble Hornets DVD is: "Please don't copy this DVD. Or else Slender Man will get you."note The message was added by the DVD editor without the permission of the creators, and they were actually rather pissed, not least because in MH, he's called "the Operator," not Slender Man. | |
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The Horslips subverted this one with a banner "advert" across the gatefold of an early LP that said, in large unfriendly letters in the same font as "HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC": | |
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Raven Software did the same as well, for instance from the full version of Heretic: | |
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The cells in the police station in Police Quest 1: In Pursuit of the Death Angel hold a great big Scary Black Man. His crime? Video game piracy, naturally. | |
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When stealing files from a villain in Burn Notice Michael Weston's scene narration explains the easiest way to get files out of a guarded building is to put them on the Internet via a free file host. The downside being the files would be accessible to anyone online, but most of them don't care as they're only on it looking for the latest music CD making this a pretty safe way to go about it. It's hard to tell if this is for or against file sharing, but given how many other blatantly illegal things Michael does... It's perfectly confidential to use a public host if you use strong encryption and give the files a cryptic, or better yet, misleading filename. To the Average Joe it will look like they are corrupted or fakes (common with just released movies and games, made by the studios and Internet trolls to annoy the would-be pirates). Let's just say if your mom gets honored at a police reception for reporting all the cars you stole, the "you wouldn't steal a car" analogy is going to fall a bit flat. |
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One of the sketches in Amazon Women on the Moon is "Video Pirates": a stereotypical pirate ship captures a prize and in the captain's cabin discovers a treasure... of videotapes and Laserdiscs. They throw one in the VCR and see the standard FBI warning, causing the captain to go "Oooo, I'm ''so'' scared!" and the crew to break into hysterical laughter. | |
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Frasier: In "Roe to Perdition", Frasier and Niles board a freighter to buy caviar that's implied to have been smuggled out of Russia. As they're closing the deal, U.S. Customs agents storm the ship, causing Frasier and Niles to panic about being arrested. Turns out the agents were just looking for some pirated DVDs being smuggled on the same ship and have no interest in the caviar. | |
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mk2 and Victory continue the theme. By Victory, you have a council of villains including members with names like Pirachu (an intentionally obvious Pikachu knockoff) and Copypaste. | |
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My Dad the Rock Star had an episode where some music pirates recruited Buzz to steal a copy of Rock's latest album. Willy and his friends stealthily replace the CD with an album of New Age music Rock's hippie wife had made, to the disgust of the pirates. | |
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In Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, the main character encounters a seer early in the game and can ask her questions, which she answers vaguely and cryptically. But if asked "Will I win in the end" she replies something along the lines of "It doesn't matter if you win or lose the game, the important thing is if you've bought it." | |
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Played for laughs on Dexter's Laboratory's "Bad Cable Manners", where Dexter managed to steal satellite TV since his dad couldn't do it. Then the "Satellite S.W.A.T." arrive to arrest Dexter's Dad. Not as much of an overreaction as it is an escalation, when you consider that Dexter kept overpowering their attempts to block the pirated signal, thus requiring them to take more drastic action. It also didn't help that even when it is explained to Dad that he has to pay them for the satellite TV or he can't have it, he refuses to pay, believing cable to be a right instead of a privilege and attacks them, leading to him fighting them and landing him in jail. |
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A series of ads for Crusader Kings II themed around the Seven Deadly Sins skipped gluttony to take a look at piracy. While they're ostensibly dealing with high seas pirates, the fact that the pirate in question's name is meant to be heard as "Downloading of Games" makes it clear what they're really talking about. That said, the ad is also tongue-in-cheek (even more than the rest of the series), with the actors reading off scripts (the pirate lifts his eyepatch to do so); the king has a Who Writes This Crap?! attitude toward the whole thing. | |
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The North American DVDs of Full Metal Panic! have the American voice actors threaten those who pirate with in-character dialog. Teletha promises to "Send a cruise missile down your chimney." The version read by Gauron has the same attitude as a Mafia heavy leaning on someone. The Japanese release had these as well, and they are included in the extras. | |
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Ultima VII Part II has, in addition to several of the regular kind, a nefarious Software Pirate. | |
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At the end of Happy Heroes episode 51, Big M. and Little M. are seen selling pirated copies of DVDs, only to get arrested soon afterwards for that, with a monster following the police car. | |
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