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Maybe I'll Just Download It

BoingBoing recently drew attention to a nifty little advert posted ages ago on BrokenTV that pretty much nails my negative feelings about those horrible unskippable DVD piracy adverts that have started to appear on new DVDs. To prevent RSI on your clicking finger, here it is:

Anti-anti-piracy Ad

The levels of idiocy required to serve an anti-piracy ad to an audience who have already done the right thing and bought your content in your industry-approved media format and are playing it on an industry-approved media player are fairly high, but making the damn thing unskippable is just too much.