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"PIRACY IS NO FUN!"

The Discovery Kids Anti-Piracy Screen are a series of horror videos claiming to be anti-piracy screens for Latin American TV channel Discovery Kids. In it, a message saying that piracy is a crime is shown, and then it becomes darker and darker, to the point in which it gets closer to being a horror movie.

These screens are often made to scare the "pirates" so that they stop pirating TV channels.


 * Bowdlerise: The 2009 anti-piracy screen originally had actual blood. Despite the creator of these vids being a minor, it was later age-restricted, and as a result, a censored version was uploaded with green blood.
 * Clumsy Copyright Censorship: The 2016 anti-piracy screen originally had a DirecTV song at the end of the video. However, after it was copyright claimed, it was later changed to a song from YouTube's music library.
 * Irony: Despite being "anti-piracy screens", these screens often use songs from copyrighted video games.
 * The 1996 anti-piracy screen uses the ghost house theme from Super Mario World.
 * The 1997 anti-piracy screen uses the ghost house and looping stairs themes from Super Mario 64. It even uses the crash handler theme from the popular "every copy of Mario 64 is personalized" ARG.
 * The 2002 anti-piracy screen uses the final boss theme from Kirby's Dream Land 3.
 * The 2005 anti-piracy screen fittingly uses Giygas' intro theme from EarthBound.
 * The 2009 anti-piracy screen is where it takes it Up to Eleven. There's Apple Kid's theme from EarthBound, the "Cave of the Past" theme from the same game, and even the Mother Brain theme from Super Metroid.
 * The 2013 anti-piracy screen features two songs from EarthBound, just like the previous one. This time, they're "Giygas Stirs" and "Hidden Track". At the end of the video, it uses the boss theme from the American version of Sonic CD.
 * The 2016 anti-piracy screen is the first one to have an original composition, but that's in its (actual) first screen. Before it, there was a "technical difficulties" screen that used the password theme from Super Bomberman 3. After the screen with an original song in it, we get a reversed version of the "Cave of the Past" theme from EarthBound, and even the boss theme from the American version of Sonic CD. There was also a DirecTV song at the end of the video, though that was later edited due to copyright claims.
 * The 2021 anti-piracy screen does it, even in a Visual Pun. On the first screen, Doki is hanging and plays the song "Sayo-nara" from Doki Doki Literature Club!. Then there's the character select theme from Hebereke's Popoon, and finally, the boss theme from the American version of Sonic CD.
 * In addition, the extremely rare 2014 anti-piracy screen used a high-pitched version of "Lava Springs" from EarthBound.


 * Flipping the Bird: Doki does this in the 2005 anti-piracy screen, as well as in the 2013 and 2016 ones, as a way to insult the pirates.
 * Jump Scare: Most of the time, screamers would show up at the end of the video.