MelasZepheos said:
Yeah I think they should stop trying to inform people of the law and trying to uphold it. I mean, who needs laws and rules? They just get in the way of things.
I'm rapidly losing any sympathy I might have possessed for anyone even vaguely in support of piracy even by apathy and omission. Piracy is illegal. This is a statement you would think it is hard to misunderstand but apparently people really are idiots. I don't need to be reminded again and again that stealing from a shop is wrong, or that copying someone's intellectual property and passing it off as my own is wrong, or that burglary or murder or speeding or assault is wrong (I am not comparing piracy to any of those crimes, I am listing them as crimes I have never had to be reminded about) yet somehow people can't get the hint that when something is illegal, you shouldn't do it.
There are two points you're missing.
Point the first, is that there have always been copyright warnings on videos since durn near the birth of the medium, and yet piracy still occurs. The fact that piracy still occurs suggests that perhaps adding still another warning, in the same space, probably won't be as big a deterrent as the MPAA, FBI, and ICE would seem to think.
Point the second, is that these warnings are being placed on legitimately purchased media, purchased, by presumably, honest, law abiding folk like yourself. Who, like you, don't need to be reminded that unauthorized copying is illegal, and not by the individuals who have illegally downloaded those videos.
It's great that you don't have to be reminded not to shoplift or speed, but I'm willing to wager that you wouldn't shop at a store that made you listen to a 30 second lecture on the illegality of shoplifting from the cashier while you're checking out, or buy a car that would make you listen to a 30 second recording about the illegality of speeding before it let you put it into gear and drive off.
