Home Video Anti Piracy Advices - Redux [Australia]

[CliveGains80s]

Did anyone ever go to end up doing to jail? Was there ever a single arrest?

[cameron20101000]

Take me to Canada,UK, or Australia.

[TeenAuthor]

I haven't seen that CIC video warning in yonks, it gives me the same chill of mortality that the Pokemon theme song gives me if I haven't heard it in a while for some reason.

It's one of those things that I just associate with VHS in general. Now it just seems really quaint and cute that people would buy a pirated copy of something, instead of the new bunkum about "you wouldn't download a car".

[reijithe2ndify]

sounds like jeff wiggle

[JesseL85719]

hmm.............Here in America, pirate copies are indicated just by looking at an the recording tab still attached. To combat piracy there, there are a few things to indicate genuine copies:

Disney: Blue Lid

Nickelodeon (Pre-2000): Orange tape because of the logo.

VeggieTales: Green Tape

1988 VHS of E.T.: Green Lid and tapeguards as well as hologram with the 1975 Universal logo printed.

[Manafichu]

@JesseL85719 That's what I was saying about colored tapes! I first saw the Have You got What You've paid for on a video on Youtube called "Jack the DVD Pirate". A man watches it at the beginning. Back then, I thought it was some tape that told how to spot pirate copies of vhses.

[PenetrationMode]

you could be viewing a inferior pirated copEH...

[hazza1o1]

hhaha cool I remember the first one from when I was 6, it was on basically every video tape I had

[pm41224]

HAVE YOU EVER BOUGHT OR RENTED A VIDEOTAPE THAT WASN'T QUITE RIGHT? It may have been a pirate copy, an illegal and inferiorated copy for which you paid good money.

[Manafichu]

Some brands of US tapes had different colored things, such as Disney having a blue spine on the tape, Paramount Nickelodeon videos had the whole tape colored orange and VeggieTales (and maybe Larryboy Cartoon Adventures) tapes had the whole tape green.

[revoltkid123]

you just pirated this video and uploaded it on youtube. shame on you!

[AbbyRulzNCIS]

I remember watching this when i was younger!!! haha

Now we get the "You wouldn't steal a car" crap :P

[ThePreviewsGuy2010]

These Video Piracy Ads Maybe Think That The People Put Films To A Pirated Tape!

[devirusat]

A pirate is free! :)

[Urvy1A]

I wonder if Aussie copies of Ghostbusters had the red spine.

[FLEMISHDOG]

My copy of "Alien Nation" has the yellow coloured spine and the same warning in this video. Did anyone notice the back of the yellow spine at 2:54 is upside down?

[FLEMISHDOG]

@FLEMISHDOG bit of an update, Bought a copy of "Less Than Zero" with a Blue CBS FOX spine and the grid style piracy warning, as well as a copy of "Sweethearts Dance" with the RCA/Coloumbia/Hoyts Grey Case/Red spine, very cool, bought it just for the Cassette.

[MarleyAndFriends]

I have a copy of "See no Evil, Hear no Evil" on VHS and it has the same RCA/Columbia Pictures/ Hoyts anti piracy warning. There is a similar anti piracy warning on "La Bamba" on VHS.

[mulliganmedia]

Strange, I have never seen a VHS with a coloured spine in Australia, and I have only ever seen the first warning. Too young, I suppose.

[twizy123]

then phone the australian film and video security office on 008 251996

[jrdavis1992]

Now, this is...wow! I never have been to Australia, but someday, I'd like to see the colored spines done here in the US on the VHS tapes we own. Too bad VHS was phased out for DVD, though.

[MisterSenseless]

I think the CIC video warning is actually from the UK. "Video piracy is a crime: DO NOT ACCEPT IT! Demand a GENUINE cassette from your video store" was what appeared on FACT warnings in the 90's.

[AussieRoadshow]

It was taken from an Australian video. The same warning was used in both countries.

[kiltsonfire164]

I saw this on Some Warner Bros Rental Tapes.

[accountwithoutrules]

The coloured spines are cool, my Die Hard video has the yellow spine whilst my Terminator 2 vid has the red RCA spine, despite having changed to Columbia/Tristar Home Video.

Anywho, great vid, I'm really loving some of the stuff on this channel, it brings back some fond memories but where does the CBS/FOX grid indent come from, I haven't seen that one before.

[AussieRoadshow]

Thanks!

I found the grid style one on the release of The 13th Floor. I don't think it was used for very long.

[Rbatty2]

Ah wish we'd had more of those coloured VHS spines here, they rule! Nice, thank you very much!

[AussieRoadshow]

Civil Canadians would surely *never* consider piracy! Whereas your Commonwealth cousins are really just a bunch of old corrupt convicts...

[Rbatty2]

Funny that. In the mid 80's I was at a friends birthday party and we watched a copy of "E.T." on VHS, BEFORE Speilberg authorized its video release. My pal told me it was from some relative, taped off pay tv maybe. Hmm, well I'm certain that tape was gotten "civilly", hee hee! ;)