Anti-Piracy Ad Logic FAIL.
(click ads, via) Eve-AHHH!!! WALL-e and Shrek are dead, crushed by your selfish purchase of pirated versions of these Hollywood mega-blockbusters. Except, why have the lovable duo been killed by—not pirated DVDs—but oversized, legal studio issues of the films? Please explain, BIGFlix (India's largest online-offline movie rental service) or Mumbai ad agency Makani Creatives. And frankly, with NYC movie tix at $12-13 a piece, pirate away, pirates. Previously:
MTV produces the most ineffective music piracy ad imaginable.
posted by copyranter @ 3:00 PM
12 Comments:
You think pirated DVDs are always blanks labeled with a marker?
Of course not, but these are being portrayed as the real DVDs complete with the studio legalese along the bottom of them. Why would that be used in the layouts? It makes zero sense.
those movies made almost no money at all thanks to piracy!
funny story - i netflixed wall-e and a third of the way through my girlfriends 1 year old dvd player choked on it thanks to the copy protection. so i had to rip it and burn a copy so we could finish watching it. i gave the copy to my niece and nephew. it was a blank labeled with a marker.
Also, I've spent a lot time riding NYC subways the last 20 years, so of course I've seen plenty of pirate DVDs...and none of them had the printed-on disc artwork.
The Shrek one says “WITH AN ALL NEW ADVENTURES !!!” [sic] on it, which seems to fall in line with the style of pirated DVDs I fine in the Philippines.
Pirate DVD's are pretty much identical to genuine DVD's......apart from the price tag
The easiest way to get the image for the DVD would be to scan the original, and then simply print it unmodified - I don't think they'll have qualms about pirating the legalese too... :)
OK, points taken. Beyond personal experience, I'm not up on the pirated DVD market. But the ads still suck Shrek ass.
"with an all new adventures"
ha
Anyway, I've seen a lot of pirated DVDs with CD art. Oftentimes it's not the real DVD art though. I think the Wall-E one is just a poster scan or something like that. They put the legalese on to make it seem more legit, and usually put poster art on the boxes too. Partly so customers will think it's real, but also because dumb cops might be fooled by it.
I think the stranger thing is the idea that somehow blockbusters like "Wall-E" and "Shrek" are going to be killed by pirating. As if they haven't made tons and tons of money. I'd be more worried about smaller productions. I guess they're trying to appeal to peoples' emotional attachment to 'cute' characters.
Piracy is a questionable moral practice we have to accept if we are to get the important social message of Shrek and Wall-e to the masses.
Fuck DRM.
you can see the wrinkle in the label. So they are pirate dvds. But it's a wee bit subtle, so I take your point.
Got an Avatar dvd in Shanghai last week and the disc and the case (paper)
were very professional. Paid 74 cents, 5 yuan.
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