Home Video Anti Piracy Advices - Redux [Australia]

This video is a bit repetitious, but I found one extra since the earlier upload (on the old channel). These appeared on home videos in the 1980s and 1990s in Australia. Since these were taken from ex-rentals, some audio flaws are present.

The first scroll version was prominent throughout the 1990s on all different video labels, and was designed to get its message across even during fast forwarding.

The rest are as follows:
* CIC Video (1990s - silent audio)
* RCA / Columbia / Hoyts (1990)
* CBS Fox (1988 - Beta / VHS - grid style)
* CBS Fox (1989/1990 - Beta / VHS)
* CBS Fox (1991 - VHS Only)
* Fox Video (1991 - VHS Only)

There are possibly others that I have not seen.

Note that the phone numbers are obsolete. But thanks to 'rjrgmc28', for informing me that the first '1800' number is for the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT).

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• home
• video
• anti
• piracy
• advice
• antipiracy
• vhs
• beta
• betamax
• cassette
• library
• cbs
• fox
• cic
• rca
• columbia
• hoyts
• 1980s
• 1990s
• australia

[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.

[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...

[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".

[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.

[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.

[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!