Intellectual Property Law

Hollywood: Piracy Fosters Child Porn, Slavery

By Ryan Singel, Kevin Poulsen, Sarah Lai Stirland, Kim Zetter, and David Kravets

For your amusement and ours, we've discovered a collection of two decades of anti-piracy video campaigns that blame some of society's worst problems on piracy.

Most alarming is the 2006 video campaign explaining how piracy funds guns and human trafficking, organized crime and even child pornography.

Remember the videocassette? One 1990s message warns of the pending collapse of Hollywood because of counterfeit videocassettes at the rental store.

Check out the nine anti-piracy videos courtesy of the Guardian.

Viewer discretion advised.

Which was your favorite video?

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Full post as published by Threat Level on April 08, 2009 (boomark / email).