Filed under: Time-Wasters
Don't copy that floppy
by Grant Robertson Mar 10th 2007 at 5:00PM
The MPAA recently ran a contest which pitted college and high school students against each other in a battle royale to produce the most striking anti-piracy PSA. The winners are fairly unimpressive, but watching the winning video made me think about anti-piracy PSA's from the past. Leave it to YouTube; This may be the cheesiest 10 minutes of anti-piracy propaganda footage ever. "Don't Copy That Floppy"
Check out the leather pork-pie hat on that guy! He certainly schools those two youths on the dangers of software piracy. How could anyone expect this video succeed in stopping its target audience from copying anything, ever? I find this video guilty. Guilty of being an incredibly effective waste of time, that is!
Check out the leather pork-pie hat on that guy! He certainly schools those two youths on the dangers of software piracy. How could anyone expect this video succeed in stopping its target audience from copying anything, ever? I find this video guilty. Guilty of being an incredibly effective waste of time, that is!
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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thebobman said 7:16PM on 3-10-2007
Higher Quality Version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfqkdh5Js4
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Paim said 1:59AM on 3-11-2007
WHAT THE F***?!?
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e-tat said 1:23PM on 3-11-2007
Good thing the MPAA isn't in the music business. That video would die such a death....
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Lab 14 said 1:20PM on 3-13-2007
Criminally gay.
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Neil Turner said 6:38AM on 3-13-2007
The guy is an attorney, apparently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.E._Hart .
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