Yesterday I purchased Casino Royale on DVD, and later that evening decided that I would watch it. Well, of course before you want to watch a new DVD, nowadays you are put through an unskippable promo about how you shouldn’t steal stuff, as it is a crime, and thus also not download movies as thats bad too…

…I wonder if the film industry has yet to realise that in order to watch said promo, you need to have actually purchased the DVD before hand, making the promo itself pretty useless, as it seems to be informing the wrong target audience.

It’s not just DVD’s though, it also happens when you go to the cinema. You go out and pay for the film and then sometimes pay a stupid amount of money on sweets and a drink, sit down and then you get greeted with a lovely anti piracy message telling you to go to the cinema instead of watching downloaded versions with people standing up to go to the toilet.

So, while watching the trailer about not watching a pirated film with someone getting up and going to the toilet, while someone is actually getting up to go to the toilet infront of you, the film industry is threatening you that they will get a crack squad of SWAT guys to burst into your house and arrest you if you don’t go to the cinema rather than watch a downloaded version… even though… you’re already in the cinema waiting to watch the film you’ve paid to watch, if you had downloaded it to watch it, there’s a pretty high chance you wont be sitting in that cinema seeing that message…

Just remember folks, next time you buy a DVD or go the cinema… remember… you should have instead brought a DVD or gone to the cinema, as piracy and downloading is bad… oh… wait a sec…