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== [[Literature]] ==
* Inverted in ''Born To Run'' by [[Mercedes Lackey]], in which the villains are particularly proud of the unbreakable<ref>
* [[Peter F. Hamilton]]'s ''[[Misspent Youth]]'' features some rather ham-handed antipiracy propaganda, assuming a future where the authorities stopped caring about copyright in 2010, at which point all art turned to crap. We see later in the ''[[Commonwealth Saga]]'' that the world has evolved into an almost-utopia nonetheless (which, this being Hamilton, [[Horde of Alien Locusts|doesn't last]]) leaving us [[Broken Aesop|confused as to Hamilton's actual message.]] Especially as fans, and Hamilton himself, consider ''Misspent Youth'' one of his weaker works.
** It is likely that instead of trying to convey a message Hamilton was simply trying to extrapolate what he thought was likely to happen to media from technological trends. This is how he comes up with most of the social and technological developments in his books.
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* An ad campaign in the UK called "Knock-Off Nigel" is being used in an attempt to actually create and promote a stigma to buying pirate DVDs and downloading movies. The titular Nigel is accosted in one advert by a singing old man who talks about his "shady" dealings, prompting the entire pub he is in to start singing along. The second advert involves the same thing, except he's now in an office and his workmates are doing it instead. The ad campaign tries to put across the idea that people who download or pirate films steal from their grandmother's purse and give their girlfriends gifts they find lying on the street. These ads wind up making Nigel [[Unintentionally Sympathetic]], since it simply appears that he's getting assaulted by these irritating, high-and-mighty gits.
* ''[[The Daily Show]]'' has Jon Stewart advertise his show's full availability on Comedy Central's own website moments after referencing the Viacom lawsuit against [[YouTube]], while ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' ends some episodes with an advertisement to "watch every clip ever!" online.
* ''[[iCarly]]'': Carly and her friends don't seem to have a problem with it but they use anti-piracy laws to get one of their [[Sadist Teacher
* ''[[The Young Ones]]'' used this trope in regards to TV license evasion, by having Vyvyan {{spoiler|eat the evidence.}}
* Presented with a patient who has shoved an mp3 player up his ass, [[House (TV series)|House]] plays this for humor when he passes the dirty work on to Dr.
* ''[[Leverage]]:'' Hardison mentions having to route through three different satellites to get a decent signal and download the latest ''[[Doctor Who]]''
* On ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'', Liz listed the things "I don't do", which included "I don't download music without paying for it".
* Was inverted in an episode of ''[[Law & Order|Law and Order]]'' when some criminals captured someone who sold illegal DVDs. They made the man stand on top of a stack of the pirated DVDs with a noose around his neck, and alternated pulling them out from under his feet until he strangled.
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* The [[Mastodon]] song that played at the beginning of ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]] Colon Movie Film For Theaters'' was a [[Refuge in Audacity]] parody of this: "If I see you videotaping this movie, Satan will rain down your throat with hot acid and dissolve your testicles and turn your guts into snakes! This is a copyrighted movie for Time Warner. If I find that you've sold it on eBay, I will break into your house and tear your wife IN HALF!!!!"
* Parodied in [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al Yankovic]]'s "Don't Download This Song". Which he made available for downloading for free off [http://www.myspace.com/weirdal his Myspace page] several weeks before the album came out, thus ensuring the only way to hear it initially was to [[Hypocritical Humor|download the song]]. The video which accompanies it is absolutely not to be missed... but [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM8PT1eAvY how does one go about finding and watching a {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-2006}}-year-old music video]?
** Amusingly, the version that's on MTV's music video site is actually edited to censor the names of the filesharing programs Al mentions in the song; the logic behind this was that if the video was to air on their network, MTV wouldn't want to be party to encouraging filesharing. (The video never aired on television,
** More amusingly, that youtube video is not available in the UK... due to copyright reasons.
* Comedy writer and actor Adam Buxton created [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xLZpxVI7Pa8 a song], using bits of music from a bombastic piracy ad (the same one parodied in the above ''[[The IT Crowd]]'' example) that depicts "the mind of a pirate", who makes ridiculously evil statements about buying knock-off DVDs and downloading music. Interludes in the music involve [[Take That]] after [[Take That]] aimed at the entertainment industry and "artists" who are only interested in making music and movies for money.
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* [[My Dad the Rock Star]] had an episode where some music pirates recruited Buzz to steal a copy of Rock's latest song. Willy and his friends replaced it with a song Rock's fans didn't like.
* ''[[The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat]]'' had an episode where Da King of another planet stole the Earth (he believed to have won the rights to it from gambling) for its "Felkron". When Felix confronted him for this, Da King showed a videotape to explain his reasons. The tape had a F.B.I. warning that illegal reproduction would result in ''"violent-type actions"''.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode, '''Steal This Episode''', evolves around Homer discovering the practice of piracy after he had it with the film theaters. [[What an Idiot!|
== Caricature ==
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* ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_18513_5-insane-file-sharing-panics-from-before-internet.html 5 Insane File Sharing Panics From Before The Internet]
** This article talks about anti-piracy tactics, which [http://www.cracked.com/article_20783_5-anti-piracy-strategies-that-screwed-over-regular-gamers.html often anger gamers].
** There are these two articles: [http://www.cracked.com/article_19162_6-hilarious-ways-game-designers-are-screwing-with-pirates.html 6 Hilarious Ways Game Designers Are Screwing With Pirates] and [http://www.cracked.com/article_20482_5-hilarious-ways-game-designers-are-messing-with-pirates.html 5 Hilarious Ways Game Designers Are Messing With Pirates] where [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|
* MC Double Def DP would like to remind you: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI Don't Copy That Floppy!]
** And, two decades later: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCyvw4w_yk&feature=related Don't Copy That 2!]
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