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Originally Posted by ApK
I see it as preaching to as big a group as possible, including the choir.
Casual sharers will see it when the first watch the movie, or watch their own copy, Some pirated copies do in fact leave the warning visible for whatever reason, and real pirates may see it when they rip the disk, but may also see it on some other disks they may have in their collection (presumably shoplifted from a store) and start having pangs of guilt...well that's the theory anyway, I a guess.
I really don't think it helps in any but a most trivial way.
But I have no objection to the idea of being reminded about the law. There are folks who will claim they didn't know distributing copies of movies to all their friends was any kind of violation, and I'm not personally insulted by the effort to inform and dissuade people from violating copyright.
I am annoyed at yet another piece of unskippable junk I'm forced to sit though, same as the ads, previews and pointlessly long menu sequences.
Simple as that for me.
Copyright warning: Meh.
Unskippable 20 seconds of copyright warning: Hrmph.
That on top of several minutes of other unskippable nonsense: ARRRRGGG!
ApK
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People who claim they didn't know it was illegal usually say that only after they've been caught, and are being dragged into court (and that usually is only people who share stuff online). The people who share stuff online share files that no longer have the copyright warnings, because the pirates get annoyed and remove it. How many people even know how to duplicate DVDs, but do so without downloading or uploading the video? The casual sharer who does so online, and doesn't just loan out their original disk, is an extreme minority.