The IT Crowd - Series 2 - Episode 3: Piracy warning

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dspillett · 2025-05 · Joke / meme

If you were around and paying for media at the time, good have seen it before films at the cinema and as a pre-menu sting (sometimes unskippable) on some DVDs. One of those examples where paying customers were the only ones irritated by such a measure. It certainly had wide audience awareness in its intended form, which is why the many comedy interpretations ( [VIDEO] probably being the most famous) came into being and worked so well.

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sstephant · 2024-12 · Joke / meme

I never saw those piracy messages in my country but I still remember 'the It crowd''s version of it: [VIDEO]

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prepend · 2023-04 · Joke / meme

> I think following the law is ethical, and copyright is not only the law, it follows directly from the Constitution. Copyright was 14 years at the time of the Constitution. If it was still that, I’d have no problem waiting it out and only watching material 14 years old. Following laws isn’t always ethical. The constitution also allowed slavery. Do you think owning slaves was ethical? There’s lots of instances where laws are out of sync with ethics and morality, and, hopefully change over time. In the past 20 years gay marriage became legal and I would argue it’s always ethical. Same for recreational drug use. And therapeutic mdma and ketamine. The list goes on and on. Especially when the copyright laws aren’t the result of some specific debate and determination but by very targeted lobbying by Disney and others to extend copyright from 14 years to its current length of life+70 years or 95 years for corporate works. Upending copyright would have nothing to do with trademarks (perpetual as long as in use) or patents (usually 20 years) and can be reformed completely independently. Although those other IP topics could also be improved. I’m not making a judgement on your beliefs or how you formed them. I don’t know you. But there are PR campaigns to promote copyright targeted toward school kids (remember “don’t copy that floppy” [0] and “you wouldn’t steal a car” [1]) and I think they are in alignment with “copying a friend’s video is like stealing bread” so you just seem to be u

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