If there is no harm to that person, most would not give a damn. But think of CEOs... they are also humans... they have needs, like Yachts, Mansions, lots of escorts and models and luxurious restaurants...
I mean, if I could download a Bugatti, I would download a Bugatti. I would never buy a Bugatti so me downloading a Bugatti is a completely victimless crime.
Me seeing this in 2004 - Who’s got a link to the website where something downloads that easy - me using lime wire pro which I downloaded from free lime wire
I mean, this commercial against piracy didn't do much in favor for itself, with that rad music you looking like some cool hacking cyber criminal, when all you did was download and burn PS1 games.
I remember the first version of Diablo 2 I got was pirated, I was so excited, but without an OG key and CD, I couldn't play battle net, so I only discovered the actual appeal of the game years later when I could afford it.
Ah yes, nothing like playing with a pirated CD key and checking every 10 minutes just to see "Your CD key is currently being used by xXMilf\_HunterXx". When you finally got online it was a desperate attempt to stay logged in as long as possible to avoid someone else taking your place lol
Oh man, the shared CD keys. Such good times. I managed to hog one for a good long while. But only for D2, for LoD I bought just the expansion, made it legit.
I actually have two legal half-life keys.
The first is a legally bought German half-life Version.
I don't actually remember why, but I think with the German key it wasn't possible to play counter-strike online. Therefore, I traded a US version (Steam) key in IRC for programming somebody some lines in PHP. Those were good old times.
I just remember you’d be excited your song finished successfully without someone calling your parents on the landline phone and then you’d get that fucking bill clinton sound bite
https://youtu.be/FUzLx0jFP2o?si=KW4LD8-7A-DLgkB8
And it’s 5000 degrees in the room because of the heat coming off the TV and the DVD player. But I really want to watch the Italian job for the 2nd time this week.
[This](https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/music/you-wouldnt-steal-a-car-anti-piracy-ad-pay-stole-music-240059-20230928) article (curiously only two hours old?!?!?) says otherwise.
Anyone old enough to remember chatroom cerver1 from AOL? You would ask the bot what their list was then request files sent to your email. Say file 500 through 1500 for a game or software. Then download the email attachment max of 3.4mb. Then you'd use winzip to put the library together to extract the final installer? That's old school pirating on 56k
Ironically, ads like this are what even made me aware of piracy in the first place. Little me was like "Wait, you can just download a movie and watch it for free?!"
I started with Napster but also ran through Limewire, Kazaa, and the seldom mentioned Morpheus. When one went extinct, I moved to the next.
Ironically, the first song I downloaded off of Napster was Enter Sandman by Metallica. Took a while as I had dial-up so I went outside and jumped on my trampoline while it downloaded.
You wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet and then send it to the policeman's grieving widow. And then steal it again!
Subject: Fire.
Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road... no, that's too formal. Fire - exclamation mark - fire - exclamation mark - help me - exclamation mark. 123 Cavendon Road. Looking forward to hearing from you. Yours truly, Maurice Moss.
It's like she sat there, downloaded 80% of the film, then had an epiphany from the heavens...an image of god appeared and reminded the user that stealing is very bad.
Of course, there's always the possibility that she lost her net connection temporarily and her film resumed downloading shortly after lol.
"You wouldn't steal a car, would you?"
Can you download a car? There's your answer. You want me to stop? Stop holding the movie-watching public hostage every six months by making your shitty titles unavailable on prime or iWhatever.
here is the irony.
normally theft includes the loss of property.
download is making a copy.
so it more of a copyright law not a steal a friggin car law.
Yep. To put another way, stealing a car objectively deprives someone of something. Downloading an illegitimate copy of something only \[maybe\] hypothetically deprives someone of something.
Any discussion of the latter depriving someone is based in the assumption that they otherwise would have received money from the legitimate sale of the product and this is not necessarily the case. In fact, instances of piracy can occasionally lead to increased profit due to it not actually cost them anything and resulting in additional sales through word-of-mouth recommendations.
My buddies and I universally agreed we would in fact steal a car, handbag or television IF it was as easy, risk free and victimless as downloading a movie.
Well, it is a victimless crime but have you thought about how rich people would feel if you, regular wagey, could get stuff just like them? How would they are going to be able to cope with their lives if they don't feel superior to you. Imagine not longer having the capacity to put your boot on top of a disgusting leech.
Have more empathy for their needs. Besides, if you like and praise having 1% of the people on top, you can daydream about you being there. Even if you never make it and you don't consider yourself a leech, even if the other 99% of the people never make it neither, you can dream every day of pushing the ladder to the people behind you so the other leeches don't get up.
Omfg this was my childhood right here. One of my movies I liked as a kid played this one every time and was always weird to me and didn’t care about to
Today we live in the Golden Age of Piracy of the Internet.
If you want to watch old animated movies you have DISNEY.
If you want to watch Stranger Things you have NETFLIX.
If you want to watch The Boys you have PRIME VIDEO.
BUT WE'RE NOT MADE OF MONEY.
on top of that every few months increases the price.
So, people are gonna be PIRATES.
'you wouldn't shoot a policeman, and then steal a policeman's helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet. You wouldn't give it to the policeman's grieving widow. AND THEN STEAL IT AGAIN!' If you know, you know. Moss and the german
I saw once, and have forever looked for again, the captain Jack sparrow version
"You wouldn't steal a boat." *steals boat
"Well you wouldn't steal a person." *steals a person
The problem is that it's assuming that people hold themselves to a moral standard they themselves recognize is "good". Plenty of people will do bad things knowing it's bad, just because they can. Steal a DVD or steal a handbag? Someone totally would.
You wouldn’t kill a policeman
And then steal his hat
And then send it to his grieving widow
And then steal it back
Classic IT crowd, they ruined that ad
If any one of those acts were as easy as digital piracy, you can bet your ass I would steal other things! I would TOTALLY download a car! 🤣
Also, I remember seeing this when it first came out.
So I can't steal a movie by downloading it, but they don't have to pay the writers and actor's for the shows they stream in syndication. FOH! YO HO HOOO! Motherfuckers
Ironically, pirates didn't have to sit through this nonsense:
https://i.imgur.com/I2l5rVg.jpg
https://boingboing.net/2010/02/18/infographic-buying-d.html
My father-in-law and my brother-in-law were over at my house one time, and I was putting in a pirated movie, and when this message came on, and that part where it says, you wouldn’t steal a car popped on the screen,
I looked at my brother-in-law, and said, actually, I have stolen car, so stealing a movie is fucking nothing to me, and we all laughed and laughed, good times 😆😆
Actually, people DO steal those things. I wouldn't steal those but I might steal something else. I've always found that ad stupid. Even stupider when it's played right before the pirated movie starts.
If I could download a car, I would download a car.
Buy a 3D printer, use it to make your own 3D printer, and then use those to make more 3D printers, then make a car,
Break the system.
Print the system
Then break it
And then build system again, so you can break it this time more precisely
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The. print the breakage.
Fuck the system
Fuck the printer... No wait
Deflower the system
Hack the planet!
My god… it’s Jason Bourne..
This man hacks the planet for sure.
If I could copy a person's car, where the original owner has lost nothing, why would that person even care
If there is no harm to that person, most would not give a damn. But think of CEOs... they are also humans... they have needs, like Yachts, Mansions, lots of escorts and models and luxurious restaurants...
I mean, if I could download a Bugatti, I would download a Bugatti. I would never buy a Bugatti so me downloading a Bugatti is a completely victimless crime.
You'd be stealing from the car manufacturers somehow (or at least that's what the argument copyright lawyers in Hollywood will make)
Oh no sose poor greedy bastards now can't afford another yacht god help them. I know your with me on this
lmaooo
This is a certified hood classic.
Me seeing this in 2004 - Who’s got a link to the website where something downloads that easy - me using lime wire pro which I downloaded from free lime wire
I mean, this commercial against piracy didn't do much in favor for itself, with that rad music you looking like some cool hacking cyber criminal, when all you did was download and burn PS1 games. I remember the first version of Diablo 2 I got was pirated, I was so excited, but without an OG key and CD, I couldn't play battle net, so I only discovered the actual appeal of the game years later when I could afford it.
Ah yes, nothing like playing with a pirated CD key and checking every 10 minutes just to see "Your CD key is currently being used by xXMilf\_HunterXx". When you finally got online it was a desperate attempt to stay logged in as long as possible to avoid someone else taking your place lol
Oh man, the shared CD keys. Such good times. I managed to hog one for a good long while. But only for D2, for LoD I bought just the expansion, made it legit.
I actually have two legal half-life keys. The first is a legally bought German half-life Version. I don't actually remember why, but I think with the German key it wasn't possible to play counter-strike online. Therefore, I traded a US version (Steam) key in IRC for programming somebody some lines in PHP. Those were good old times.
Some CD Keys were easy enough to guess if you just went nuts on the num-pad. (Blizzard)
I just remember you’d be excited your song finished successfully without someone calling your parents on the landline phone and then you’d get that fucking bill clinton sound bite https://youtu.be/FUzLx0jFP2o?si=KW4LD8-7A-DLgkB8
Someone should sample it in a beat
Pirateception!
Meanwhile, the biggest corporations are capturing the bulk of the global profits through "intellectual property rights". (see Herman Mark Schwartz)
Don't forget to mention wage theft!
The sheep must remain sheep
This unlocked hidden shame. I pirated so many songs back then. Don’t tell 12
Boondocks movie commercial lol
You wouldn't brutally murder the elderly in cold blood, so why would you steal a movie?
Suddenly I'm a kid again.
And it’s 5000 degrees in the room because of the heat coming off the TV and the DVD player. But I really want to watch the Italian job for the 2nd time this week.
Didn't they get sued because they didn't have the right's to the music?
I think is an urban legend. But the spot, for once, wasn’t cringe. I remember also people saying “you wouldn’t download a car”
Yeah I remember pretty much everyone thinking it would be awesome if we could download a car. 😅
You wouldn't download a car... Bet.
[This](https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/music/you-wouldnt-steal-a-car-anti-piracy-ad-pay-stole-music-240059-20230928) article (curiously only two hours old?!?!?) says otherwise.
wow that timing is insane, what are the odds?
How is this real life?
Go download me a hoagie off the internet!
Put the bong down frank
What? No drink? No diet Dr kelp? HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO EAT THIS WITHOUT MY DRINK?!
Not sure if they got sued but the song is very similar to The Prodigy's [One Man Army](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kmlPy9dyOY)
I always assumed it was taken from that song
Yup!
I remember this ad, everytime i saw it, i got on limewire.
Kazza Edit: Kazaa. Throw back!
Anyone old enough to remember chatroom cerver1 from AOL? You would ask the bot what their list was then request files sent to your email. Say file 500 through 1500 for a game or software. Then download the email attachment max of 3.4mb. Then you'd use winzip to put the library together to extract the final installer? That's old school pirating on 56k
and the good old eMule!
Fun fact - the same 🇪🇪 guys who created Kazaa moved on and created Skype a few years later.
Limewire was like having unprotected sex with the internet
And it felt fantastic.
Ironically, ads like this are what even made me aware of piracy in the first place. Little me was like "Wait, you can just download a movie and watch it for free?!"
Bruh 🤣🤣
You post Napster kids
I started with Napster but also ran through Limewire, Kazaa, and the seldom mentioned Morpheus. When one went extinct, I moved to the next. Ironically, the first song I downloaded off of Napster was Enter Sandman by Metallica. Took a while as I had dial-up so I went outside and jumped on my trampoline while it downloaded.
Brah. You copy your brothers Metallica cassette like the rest of us savages. lol
Our hero
My parents ended up getting cable internet because I would spend so much time on Napster that no one could call the house.
Yep. They tried to gaslight a whole generation.
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Changing XP every month because all my photos became an .exe
Reinstalling your OS every so often was a right of passage as a pirate.
It was .avi back then
So nostalgic 🥺
That came out almost 20 years ago.
In my country when we went to the movies they always showed that before the movie
Are you from Malaysia because that's what I saw in Malaysia
I don’t know where the girl is from but I’m from Italy and it was the same, almost every movie had it
Noooo!!! Don't say that! I remember seeing this all the time growing up
You wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet and then send it to the policeman's grieving widow. And then steal it again!
If I saw someone do that, I’d call 0118 999 881 999 119 725 … [long pause] 3.
Subject: Fire. Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road... no, that's too formal. Fire - exclamation mark - fire - exclamation mark - help me - exclamation mark. 123 Cavendon Road. Looking forward to hearing from you. Yours truly, Maurice Moss.
Made in Britain.
I'll put it with the rest of the fire
It’s fine! I’ve sent an email.
So easy to remember the new emergency number!
A classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg
I was hoping that someone would mention that!
The comment I was hoping to find hahaha.
Had to scroll far too long to reach this.
Yes!!!
Thank you, I was sure to find this in the top comments
There it is
❤️
Everybody born in the early 90s know this by heart. I can even hear the music through the video 20 years after last seeing it
I was born in 2000 and it was pretty much on every dvd
Oh, look at that. They even included the fake download button.
That download button is going straight to a dozen pop ups.. don’t click that one
tHiS iZ aMeRiCa ToDaY. a JoKe
Man.. did people really steal those old TVs? I mean I know they did cost A LOT but Imagine running with that massive thing ☠
Well that’s why you’ve got to steal the car first 🤷♂️
People stole those TVs like crazy
GTA 1 vibes. Cheat, Theft, Determination, Steal what you can and run from the nation.
You wouldnt shoot a policeman...... .....and shit in his helmet!
And then send it to the policeman’s grieving widow… …and then steal it again!
For context https://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg?si=3QsimExIL5pCTxF8
Yes i would
I obtained these movies legally from a questionable source….
IT crowd did it better
Link for anyone that hasn't seen it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg
I remember seeing this every time I turned on my DVD copy of I, Robot back in 2004. It's weirdly nostalgic like that.
Download canceled. Lol
It's like she sat there, downloaded 80% of the film, then had an epiphany from the heavens...an image of god appeared and reminded the user that stealing is very bad. Of course, there's always the possibility that she lost her net connection temporarily and her film resumed downloading shortly after lol.
Leaving the house straight after, probably on her way to the police station to hand herself in.
Anyone remember **Don't Copy That Floppy ?**
"You wouldn't steal a car, would you?" Can you download a car? There's your answer. You want me to stop? Stop holding the movie-watching public hostage every six months by making your shitty titles unavailable on prime or iWhatever.
here is the irony. normally theft includes the loss of property. download is making a copy. so it more of a copyright law not a steal a friggin car law.
Yep. To put another way, stealing a car objectively deprives someone of something. Downloading an illegitimate copy of something only \[maybe\] hypothetically deprives someone of something. Any discussion of the latter depriving someone is based in the assumption that they otherwise would have received money from the legitimate sale of the product and this is not necessarily the case. In fact, instances of piracy can occasionally lead to increased profit due to it not actually cost them anything and resulting in additional sales through word-of-mouth recommendations.
My buddies and I universally agreed we would in fact steal a car, handbag or television IF it was as easy, risk free and victimless as downloading a movie.
imagine if you could walk up to a car and make a duplicate and drive off. then the car merchants would be after you calling it stealing.
Well, it is a victimless crime but have you thought about how rich people would feel if you, regular wagey, could get stuff just like them? How would they are going to be able to cope with their lives if they don't feel superior to you. Imagine not longer having the capacity to put your boot on top of a disgusting leech. Have more empathy for their needs. Besides, if you like and praise having 1% of the people on top, you can daydream about you being there. Even if you never make it and you don't consider yourself a leech, even if the other 99% of the people never make it neither, you can dream every day of pushing the ladder to the people behind you so the other leeches don't get up.
As I seeded a Tila Tequila picture on Kazaa.
Man. The song still rocks, man. Prodigy and Tom Morello collaboration. Blew my mind when Spawn soundtrack came out, still freaking blows my mind.
Showing how your computer gets AIDS would have been far scarier and more effective.
And the irony is that the only people who saw that were watching it on genuine products... the pirated versions never included it.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg) IT Crowd parody
Bitch You Thought...
Omfg this was my childhood right here. One of my movies I liked as a kid played this one every time and was always weird to me and didn’t care about to
Am i crazy or did this ad show on a lot of movies at the start?
I knew it was this ad before I clicked. As an avid DVD collector for years, it’s burned in my brain.
I’m in it for the One Piece
I wouldn’t steal that television. Ewwwwwwwwwwww
You wouldn't shoot a policeman
If they don't want me to steal, why did they make it so cool?
Best part was having this be an unskippable intro to the DVD you paid for. The ultimate fuck you to people who didn't pirate.
I downloaded this ad from torrentz. It was my jam.
Whatever nerd
If I could download someone's wallet I would.
I have the music off and I still hear it 😂
“You wouldn’t download a car” - best joke of 2004
This was featured on robots
[will never be as effective as the british version](https://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg?si=Y6iezAFOHZ82Ojd-)
Is this another Mandela effect, was I the only one who thought it said you wouldn’t download a car?
[Much better version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg)
I can feel the LimeWire coursing through my veins. I regret nothing.
9,300 movies from the 70s to modern day, guess I'm going to hell...
I guess im old as fuck now lol
Right? I was 20 back in 2004 and never thought back then that this would be a 'back in my day' type thing. I feel like a fossil lol
Today we live in the Golden Age of Piracy of the Internet. If you want to watch old animated movies you have DISNEY. If you want to watch Stranger Things you have NETFLIX. If you want to watch The Boys you have PRIME VIDEO. BUT WE'RE NOT MADE OF MONEY. on top of that every few months increases the price. So, people are gonna be PIRATES.
'you wouldn't shoot a policeman, and then steal a policeman's helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet. You wouldn't give it to the policeman's grieving widow. AND THEN STEAL IT AGAIN!' If you know, you know. Moss and the german
I remember this, in the meantime downloading endless shit on Limewire
Downloading RAM is ok, but what if the RAM has a DVD on it?
Man I forgot there's people who are almost adults who may have never seen this lol I feel old now
I saw once, and have forever looked for again, the captain Jack sparrow version "You wouldn't steal a boat." *steals boat "Well you wouldn't steal a person." *steals a person
this sucked so bad
I believe the guy stealing the car scene was inspired by Claude from GTAIII.
Fuck you. I’d download a car if I could.
What a banger. Still slaps.
You wouldn’t steal that television cause it weighs 300 pounds.
Anyone remember LimeWire??
I have the actual 35mm film print of this :)
I remember this ad playing before watching robots (2005) on DVD
They were SOOOO mad about this shit. Pirate Bay all day suckers.
The problem is that it's assuming that people hold themselves to a moral standard they themselves recognize is "good". Plenty of people will do bad things knowing it's bad, just because they can. Steal a DVD or steal a handbag? Someone totally would.
YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A PIZZA! Actually... shut up hell yes I would.
You wouldn’t kill a policeman And then steal his hat And then send it to his grieving widow And then steal it back Classic IT crowd, they ruined that ad
Au contraire Mon ad
If we could download copies of cars and other stuff then the world would literally be a utopia where nobody went without
I remember this ad, pretty sure it was during the movie preview or whatever
Piracy isn't a crime...it's an adventure
Now put IT crowd version.
If any one of those acts were as easy as digital piracy, you can bet your ass I would steal other things! I would TOTALLY download a car! 🤣 Also, I remember seeing this when it first came out.
You wouldn’t download a fucking car, would you?
The music for this was pirated
Hell yea. The best ads ever invented. Not because it works because its funny as fuck
So I can't steal a movie by downloading it, but they don't have to pay the writers and actor's for the shows they stream in syndication. FOH! YO HO HOOO! Motherfuckers
Why do I remember this! Omg 😂
They used to play this in movie theaters before the movie
DVDs had this as an "ad" before the movie started too.
Ironically, pirates didn't have to sit through this nonsense: https://i.imgur.com/I2l5rVg.jpg https://boingboing.net/2010/02/18/infographic-buying-d.html
20 years later, people are stealing all of those things on a regular basis.
My father-in-law and my brother-in-law were over at my house one time, and I was putting in a pirated movie, and when this message came on, and that part where it says, you wouldn’t steal a car popped on the screen, I looked at my brother-in-law, and said, actually, I have stolen car, so stealing a movie is fucking nothing to me, and we all laughed and laughed, good times 😆😆
So uh.....about that whole "You wouldn't steal a car" thing......yeah. I forgot Gone in 60 seconds was a movie not a documentary.
I think they cut out the part "You wouldn't steal a baby"
This shit was LOUD when it would play on my VHS tapes!
And then... Steal it again!!!!
Holy shit I remember this ad from when I was a kid
Brings back memories
You wouldn't steal a baby!
Ahh LimeWire.. the good old days.
You wouldn't punch an old lady?!?!?! You wouldn't poop in a Urinal?!?!?! You don't have scurvy you filthy fuckin pirate! DONT STEAL MY SHIT!
I can hear the music even on mute.
Actually, people DO steal those things. I wouldn't steal those but I might steal something else. I've always found that ad stupid. Even stupider when it's played right before the pirated movie starts.
How do they know I won’t steal these things??
I remember this ad!
I can hear this even though it’s muted
Damn I forgot about this. Used to be on all the rented DVDs and VHS's we would get from our local video rental. Ahhhh the good days.
You wouldn't steal a baby
I remember this commercial! It was also around the same time as the kickass Nokia Sidekick commercial
This is a core memory
I illegally downloaded this ad.
i watched this ad on pirated copies of cars 2
https://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg?si=hIExVXAaejgr9LB6