Knock Off Nigel: Office

2008 awareness campaign against copyright theft. A man in an office is confronted about his cheapskate ways, including illegally downloading movies.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• public
• awareness
• federation
• against
• copyright
• theft
• knock
• off
• nigel
• illegal
• download
• bittorrent
• piracy

[KawaiiMofia]

Epic... anyway the only thing stolen here was poor nigels laptop... i do hope he got it back.

[piflover]

Probably not.

Bastards.

[CCmachine]

nigel downloads copyrighted movies for free

he's breaching copyright law

he's comitting theft of revenue, because the deal is that you pay for the content.

this is the same as saying "i refused to pay for a haircut because it isnt stealing, the barber didnt lose anything", it is theft of _revenue_.

[piflover]

So, does that make it acceptable to steal poor Nigel's laptop?

[CCmachine]

1 DVD costs around £20.

if he's stolen just 30+ movies even over sereval years, that's around £600+ worth of content, and most laptops are worth £300 to £500.

so yes, it may be. the point is that pirates need to be punished ...

[piflover]

What is your view on those who argue that Nigel is a modern day Robin Hood, stealing from the fatcats to give to the poor (ie those of us who aren't multi-millionaires in the film/record industry?)

[historyweb]

these ads are like a red rag to a bull. they just make you want to dload EVEN MORE free films and tunes, which i'm doing right now.

[TheConspiracyofSeeds]

I am a knock off Nigel also. :-)

[daveygravey123456]

@piflover this video isnt the origional take, in the 1st video they had a white man take the laptop and it got returned afterwards

[ButterJunge]

Surely EVERYONE is a knock-off Nigel then?

[goonerballs]

@piflover

I agree.. The funny thing about this ad is they're trying to make a jingle that people will sing to 'pirates' to stop pirating.. but in all fairness I don't mind being called a knock off nigel.. I'd be pretty proud in all honesty

[afuzzyduck]

bahahaha, aggresive stereotyping only ever serves to undermine one's own position :D

[CrazyGraham]

Not the best time to be called Nigel lol.

[WritersCramp666]

I'm a knock-off Nigel...so?

[UseItAgainstMe]

Knock off Nigel downloads knock off films

[gerryono]

bullshit

go pirate bay

[pkryderuk]

They are fucking retarded if they think this will work, everyone knows that just because someone downloads a DVD they probably don't do half the other shit in the advert, they also seem to think people would consider downloading a film immoral or wrong when of course these people are probably in the minority.

[PhilBlythe25]

The Song is good, the message, not so.