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Unless of course you get a proxy or take a walk in the torpark.

The Motion Picture Association of Americaor MPAA administers the voluntary film rating system. As part of its campaign to stop copyright infringement the MPAA is fighting to stop the sharing of copyrighted works via peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. The MPAA's anti-piracy campaign has gained much publicity and criticism.

You Wouldn't Steal a Car

Actually yes you would if it were so easy.

You Wouldn't Steal a Car is a 2004 advertisement by the MPAA that is put before the actual content on many DVDs. It is sometimes made impossible to skip, so the viewer must watch it, which ironically made people want to have a pirated movie more than ever. The voiceover (and text) of the ad says "You wouldn’t steal a car. You wouldn’t steal a handbag. You wouldn’t steal a mobile phone. You wouldn’t steal a DVD. Buying pirated films is stealing…Stealing...Is Against...The Law...Piracy: It’s a crime." The ad has been parodied several times and ironically, was known to appear in many copies of pirated DVDs.