MTV Europe Has Things To Say About Piracy And/Or Loading Bars Being Bad For Musicians
from the there's-a-'soylent-green'-joke-in-there-and-i'm-going-to-go-get dept
I don't know what a good anti-piracy ad looks like. I don't think I've ever seen one. Most of these promos come across with all the subtlety of a stereotypical Jewish grandmother bearing a sledgehammer, continually bashing the observer over the head with guilt and terrible physical theft metaphors. This new ad is different. Not better, but at least not more of the same. Hat tip to Dave Awesome Allen for pointing this out via his blog post entitled "Yeah, this will really work." (Yes. His middle name is actually "Awesome" and it's because of things like this. Also because of Gang of Four, Shriekback and the Elastic Purejoy. )It's not much to look at from a distance:
But, fortunately, Huh Magazine has a selection of closeup shots to better show how piracy is swiftly turning musicians blue.
In the following two closeups, a few details stand out, which we decided to highlight for discussion purposes:
[1] A man who looks suspiciously like Kim Dotcom as portrayed by Rex Ryan gestures wildly at the cowering musicians while unwittingly providing user names and passwords to the onlooking Anonymous member.
[2] Fanservice.
[3] Lyle Lovett is menaced by an eyeless worlock who uses his magicks to unsettle Lovett's hairpiece.
[1] A Hindu techie delivers a new monitor.
[2] A man requests a refund for his defective power strip, gesturing at the distinct lack of sockets.
[3] H8trs gonna h8.
A set of striking images to be sure, reminding each and every one of us John Q. Downloaders that your computer's hard drive is made out of people, and each download is slowly (depending on ISP) drowning them. Which is bad, because most of them own expensive electronic devices.
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Filed Under: advertising, huh?, piracy
Companies: mtv, viacom
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That goes to show that this campaign is false advertising. MTV has nothing to "steal".
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STOP MTV!!!
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Oh, wait- did you mean play music videos?
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You gotta...
submit a request in triplicate, to legal, production, and distribution, pay $1000 in license fees and hope that we decide to license unto you a right...
...to paaaaaaar-tay!
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looks like the public is .5 megs away from finally being free of the so-called 'industry' and ready to enjoy real music from real musicians again.
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Ironic
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Oohh ah oohhh!!
Internet killed the MAFIAA star
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Oh the irony.
Once "Piracy" takes over completely, will we have progress?
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With all the bad laws they support I'd like to ask everyone to SEED PLZ!!!!1!!!
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In other words, nothing will really change.
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I was just talking about Lyle Lovette
http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/07/10/us-lovett-idUSN1030835920080710
Nigel
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I'd rather be known as Lady Blue of Internet Anarchy than Lady Red of Internet Communism.
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Question, how subtle can propaganda be to have the desired affect
If im either young, impressionable, uninformed or an idiot, what i will see in this pic, is a bunch of "questionable" characters, seemingly attacking other non threatening people, in this case artists
Wheres little joey downloading the latest disney movie
Wheres the young doctor downloading works to help him understand a procedure
Wheres the poor family downloading a movie for movie night, so their family can have, for that brief time, a distraction on their possible stressful lives, and little joey, taking that closeness with him, for the rest of his life,
Propaganda, might happen, might not, might be true, might be false.........there is usually always two sides to a story,
Soooooo, this is what a pirate looks like, or at least an expression of what a pirate looks like, well im pretty sure that that picture could be flipped and still represent a truth to someone
Propaganda, or "education" if you want to use the modern term for it, is fucking despicable, you've had examples of it throughout history, and i cant believe our society still suffers that bullshit manipulation.
Lets say in a supposed corrupt government, who uses the the tool that is propaganda, the internet as its meant to be, would be a risk to that on and off legacy tool, propaganda, whereas the internet as its gradually being pushed to be now, would be the most powerful tool a corrupt government could ever dream of.
Sorry, im just rambling my thoughts now, as you've probably guesed, i fucking hate with a passion the notion of propaganda, the nationwide manipulation, whether intentional or unintentional, and yes, i am self aware enough to know that thats a biased opinion on what i see, no, not as a pirate, as someone who feels strongly about people having human rights, freedoms, privacy, security and the idea of freely sharing of information, NOT information on citizens, unless your a civil servant, where your position, choices and decisions, affects those citizens
And just to clarify, my names not little joey
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Frag the Gray's!
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if they were to be accurate...
Downloading is GREAT for the artists! Study after study has shown that the people who truly CONNECT to the artists are more than willing to support the artists. The people we are NOT going to support any longer are the "gatekeepers" and aforementioned accounting drones, who feel that they are entitled to a cut of the business! They are DONE! Stick a fork in them and let's all move on!
On another note...how long has it been since MTV has AT ALL been relevant to the music business? 10 years? 20? All I have seen lately on MTV is "Jersey Shore" and "My Sweet 16"...nothing even REMOTELY related to music! They have lost ALL ABILITY to be able to even comment on the matter!
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Does anybody have a link to a high resolution version? The blue happy people would make for an awesome wallpaper.
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http://media.xipax.com/18004_22378.jpg
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Because it's "One dollar, one vote", not "One person, one vote". Those that have enslaved the white side have more money than those that live on the blue side.
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it's not mtv's fault
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They must be using a "Comcastic" connection.
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TvTropes
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Flipside
47 sec to download .5Mb thats the speed labels provide.
That download bar is not someone downloading via a pirate website. Its a loyal customer downloading via a labels websites. It represents all the loyal fans who buy the latest tech the laptops, the tablets, the HD TV's and eagerly waiting for the labels to release the songs while the labels treat them as outcasts insulting them and being afraid that they download from a pirate site.
Eventually the tech will win and the labels will be thrown out.
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Wow
Can you name a single relevant musician from the past decade who owes their success to MTV? I can't.
People decided long ago to find the music they wanted on the internet rather than rely on decrepit networks like MTV, VH1, BET, etc., networks whose glory days are long behind them.
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