Don't copy that floppy

by Grant Robertson Mar 10th 2007

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!

Tags: anti piracy, AntiPiracy, BSA, don't copy that floppy, Don'tCopyThatFloppy, piracy, SPA

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

thebobman said 7:16PM on 3-10-2007

Higher Quality Version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfqkdh5Js4

Paim said 1:59AM on 3-11-2007

WHAT THE F***?!?

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....

Neil Turner said 6:38AM on 3-13-2007

The guy is an attorney, apparently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.E._Hart .

Lab 14 said 1:20PM on 3-13-2007

Criminally gay.

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