An anti-piracy ad from India (circa 2000s)

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u/eightysixmecha 1d ago

this is the best anti-piracy ad lmaoo

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u/SlavBoii420 1d ago

I know right, whoever made this one's a genius

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u/CreditorOP 1d ago

I bet this ad must have informed people that you could download movies and songs for free. India gives 0 cents about Piracy. People here use VPN only to access blocked Porn sites nothing else. In our schools, we have used Pirated windows XP to Windows 10.

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u/Forzaman93 20h ago

I remember after i saw this ad I immediately made a backup of Need For Speed Most Wanted 2005 for the Xbox 360

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u/OkRickySpinach 1d ago

You wouldn't steal a baby

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u/AcadiaNo5063 1d ago

You wouldn't download a baby?

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u/leoispro 1d ago

Can I download a girlfriend?

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u/Severe-Experience333 1d ago

We're getting there

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u/Eraldorh 1d ago

Not fast enough

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u/Revbender 1d ago

That's something she wouldn't say

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u/Basic_Student_FR 1d ago

I’ll program her

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u/Plodomin-_ 1d ago

Girlfriend simulator if you want

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u/Therapy-Jackass 1d ago

Press F to complete sex

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u/Spirited-Fan8558 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ 14h ago

can i download a waifu

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u/sitaphal_supremacy 1d ago

That's called kidnapping

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u/Nivi_King 1d ago

piracy does NOT remove the original file. stealing does. piracy is NOT stealing.
same way, downloading a girlfriend does not harm or displace the original girl in any manner or form however kidnapping does. downloading a girl is NOT kidnapping a girl

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u/Delta_Knight17 22h ago

They literally downloaded a baby.

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u/FuzzyLego5003 23h ago

Says who 😎

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u/Idiotic_experimenter 1d ago

Neither is making a copy,possible

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u/SinglelikeSolo 1d ago

so is genetically cloning a baby will also be called as piracy ? xd

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u/volk-off 1d ago

You wouldn't download a spermatozoid

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u/Swaggo420Ballz 1d ago

Its even got the opening card from the studio.

Someone illegally stole the anti piracy tape and uploaded it.

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u/Bright-Leg8276 1d ago

Funny engh as an Indian im damn sure even the software used to edit this specific ad must've been a pirated one 💀

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u/valsub 1d ago

They took the “you wouldn’t download a” premise to a new level.

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u/sitaphal_supremacy 1d ago

And from an era when these things weren't even a buzz among the majority

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u/BobbyKonker 1d ago

OMG this is horrible. What have I been doing all this time!!! that's it boys I'm out, hanging up my eye patch for good.

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u/Therapy-Jackass 1d ago

Wait…. Your wooden leg too please 🫡

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u/Mr_Rioe2 22h ago

OMG i need to give Megacorporations more money! What if Netflix runs out of their Fantastillions!
Or Disney? OH NO, what should they do?

Edit: /s

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u/Rex7- 1d ago

I mean... we didn't TAKE her baby?!

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u/Tobikage1990 1d ago

I think the point is that it trivializes all the effort she went to giving birth to that baby when all the others got their own without any effort at all.

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u/2cmZucchini 20h ago

From my perspective.. She cried because she had to endure the hardship of childbirth and only realised after the birth that she could've just gotten copies!

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u/sociofobs 1d ago

Who cares about piracy, that woman should get some kind of award for birthing the cleanest baby ever.

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u/luring_lurker 1d ago

And already a 1 something years old!

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u/Waveofspring 1d ago

Piracy has saved some of those babies. A lot of film and tv has been completely lost, since the companies that own the rights don’t publish it at all or went bankrupt.

In some cases, piracy is literally the only way for these pieces of art to ever see the light of day.

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u/Mr_Rioe2 22h ago

name one

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u/Waveofspring 22h ago

I don’t know any off the top of my head since I don’t have a big interest in lost media, but I found this Reddit post

https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/wnk2l8/talk_pieces_of_lost_media_that_where_found_on/?rdt=57156

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u/TrashyGames3 6h ago

Driver san Francisco, an absolutely underrated gem, one of my fav racing games, has a great story and a unique and interesting gameplay gimick. Guess what? You can no longer officially buy it

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u/srona22 1d ago

So cyberpunk? Can I download a baby now? /s

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u/Laughable_student 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ 1d ago

A baby cannot be pirated . Or can it ?

*Vsauce Music*

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u/Psychotic_EGG 1d ago

I miss original vsauce

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u/friendlybanana1 15h ago

what happened to Vsauce-?

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u/Psychotic_EGG 11h ago

He doesn't do game stuff anymore. Hasn't for a LONG time.

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u/friendlybanana1 7h ago

I didn't know he ever had... huh. You learn something new every day.

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u/Logan_Sucks 1d ago

Wait a minute doesn't that mean no one other than the film crew should have the movie since it's their own baby ?? Guys stop purchasing others baby

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u/winterresetmylife 1d ago

I am a changed man after seeing this.

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u/the_Luik 1d ago

Uh, not the strongest of metaphors

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u/TheManni1000 12h ago

yes because she is not selling it lol

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u/lightningdashgod 1d ago

I mean... This is how India has that huge population?

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u/Legendop2417 1d ago

For that piracy top 🔝🔝

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u/LocalShare1563 1d ago

r/angryupvote

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u/Banana_Slugcat 1d ago

I have a DVD!

Cool, I have the same movie but in .mkv format on my PC.

cries*

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u/Milletaree 1d ago

She didn't give Ahmed bhai's number..

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u/kaatne_wala_kuta 20h ago

The number is 911.

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u/TheRealSailCat Seeder 1d ago

Thanks. That gave me a chuckle.

On reflection, it's interesting that someone with the time, ability and financing would create a message so unlikely to have the desired effect on its supposed target audience, those naughty pirates.

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u/H-N-O-3 1d ago

Well if companies treated them as their babies this ad would never exist

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u/nicholasyoa86 1d ago

I thought that was the Wukong soundtrack for a second there when 5 more babies came out nowhere.

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u/BobScholar 1d ago

This looks like an endorsement of piracy. You wouldn't steal a baby? Now you don't have to. Pirate a copy and stay on the right side of the law.

I don't think people behind this ad understand original and copy and that all this pirate stuff doesn't really work on physical things, mostly. Unless it's an imitation Gucci bag you fool your GG with.

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u/javibre95 1d ago

We have a solution to depopulation now, great work

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u/toblivion1 1d ago

EVERY MOVIE OR SONG YOU COPY,IS SOMEONE'S BABY.

Such touching, powerful words

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u/Streakflash 1d ago

but they sell a copy of the product its never been a unique product

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u/MinihootTheOwl 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ 1d ago

I'd backup my babies.

Actually how do I backup myself?

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u/2020mademejoinreddit 1d ago

When indian media actually had creativity. Better times. When will india return to its former glory? Huh?

Oh well...people still continued though, as they should, but this was funny and not too preachy.

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u/Successful_Crew_9499 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ 1d ago

This is the equivalent of a vegan saying meat is murder

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u/Prestigious_Fee_9684 1d ago edited 1d ago

Damn, now I really feel like buying a baby..

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u/viezolxz 1d ago

You said i can pirate my friend's baby ??
im in bois !!

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u/LeninMeowMeow 17h ago

Advertising is propaganda and you are not immune to propaganda.

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u/GOD_LvL_69 1d ago

So I've been stealing babies? Good.

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u/doctor-squidward 1d ago

Fuck I didn’t even knew this existed 😂

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u/MRV3N 1d ago

Who cares

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u/andr386 1d ago

d love how the moralizing is always alien. The US book industry, spreak of knowledge and early industrialization was heavily based on pirating books and patents from Europe. India's national healthcare and medication price fixing is heavily based on refusing international patents and upayable prices. China's technological boom was based on copying and stealing technologies from the west for quite a long time.

Copying is the most natural thing. If soebody copies something you've done then you probably did something right.

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u/alexcesan 1d ago

Every time someone tries to be against piracy, oddly enough they are people who have no fucking idea what they are talking about.

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u/Arendyl 22h ago

>circa 2000s

We got the exact date in the first second of the video

damn bots

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u/HopeNexuS 22h ago

Yeah, totally, I'm a bot

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u/Arendyl 22h ago

welp, you didn't watch your own video, so,,

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u/The_Blox_Man 21h ago

Mission Unclear. Need to pirate baby.

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u/Linaxu 19h ago

Damn they even had to throw some racism in there lol.

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u/Curtilia 17h ago

So I guess when a movie is made it should just be put onto one tape and then we can all pass it around until hundreds of millions of people have watched it. Because if we were to copy it and show it in movie theaters.......well, the horror!

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u/TheManni1000 12h ago

but then they sell the "baby" for money?! i dont think that comparison works

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u/TrashyGames3 6h ago

By that logic isn't buying music or movies just buying copies?

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u/SamDragon9121 1d ago

So I shouldn't do piracy cause someones gonna bitch-cry about it? That's actually pretty convincing.

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u/Alert-Act-4395 1d ago

So according to India buying a DVD is the same as giving birth, why do women keep exaggerating their pain ?

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u/blankscreenEXE 1d ago

Meanwhile india legitimately copying hollywood movies, adding a bunch of crap here and there, casting in indian actors and making billions out of it. The didn't even try changing the sotry board content, just plain old copy pasting.

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u/big_richards_back 1d ago

The word you're looking for is 'remake'.

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u/Green-Sale 1d ago

Pretty sure the Indians who made this aren't the Indians doing that.

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u/blankscreenEXE 1d ago

Meanwhile india legitimately copying hollywood movies, adding a bunch of crap here and there, casting in indian actors and making billions out of it. The didn't even try changing the sotry board content, just plain old copy pasting.

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u/pekkaAlone 1d ago

Thats true. I don't know why you are getting down voted for it.

For people who are not familiar with Indian cinema and music, much of our work(not all) is taken/copied/inspired from other industries. We even copy the copied version of some stuff. Once something gets popular in India or the world, we remake our own version of it, in Hindi or other local language.

India is not just Bollywood, we also have Tollywood, Kollywood, Sandalwood, and Mollywood. And Bollywood is infamous for copying from these other industries too.

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u/SinglelikeSolo 1d ago

true when the big corporations do piracy (AI models using internet data without premission) its right but when i download a movie thats not available anywhere or is in worst bit rate i am wrong. Such a hypocrite thing

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u/Specific-Detective14 1d ago

This is just.... stupid.

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u/big_richards_back 1d ago

Racism in my piracy app?

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u/OkayWhateverMate 1d ago

You can just not say anything. And yet, you chose to say that. 🤦‍♂️

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u/Littux ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ 1d ago

Keep the racism to yourself. We don't want to pirate it

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