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  • @nighttimevideo
    @nighttimevideo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    The irony of that "You wouldn't steal a handbag" advert was the production team hired a composer to write the music under the false pretence it was only going to be screened at film festivals, but never told them it was going to be included on nearly every single UK cinema screening, VHS and DVD in the mid-late 2000's to avoid paying them a daft amount of royalties, and I think the composer took them to court for it.

    • @BacktothePast
      @BacktothePast  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I was intending to comment on this, but there seem to be conflicting accounts on whether the music was actually properly licensed or not, so I'm not entirely sure of the true story.

  • @ch3rri
    @ch3rri 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    it is still head-scratching how studios thought the FACT fire ad was acceptable to use on tapes for kids shows and family films

    • @OnafetsEnovap
      @OnafetsEnovap 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Indeed. Mad motherfuckers.

    • @BacktothePast
      @BacktothePast  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      The BBFC rated it U, from what I recall, which is actually no surprise to me whatsoever. 😁

    • @OnafetsEnovap
      @OnafetsEnovap 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@BacktothePast That's crazy. Suits, eh? What do they know? :)

    • @CometMedalChavez
      @CometMedalChavez 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BacktothePast Apparently there was a cinema version too? It was rated PG and it was shorter, and had a different voiceover. Can anyone confirm this?

  • @Gondarth
    @Gondarth 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    The simple Disney ones where they'd show you a cassette and there's simple voiceovers, like those 90s releases of The Lion King and Aristocats, good stuff, it does the job, you watch them so many times as a kid, you commit them to memory... but then there's "THE PIRATES ARE OUT TO GET YOU. DON'T LET THEM BRAND YOU WITH THEIR MARK..."
    Seriously, what the hell was that?

  • @ch3rri
    @ch3rri 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    imagining being an aberdonian offshore worker working months away from home on the north sea and in the small lounge room you wanna watch a film on the tiny crt but you can't as the vhs cannot be played on oil rigs

  • @sarahfields288
    @sarahfields288 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I was always confused about the Oil rigs thing. I once asked "How would they know?" Lol

  • @nighttimevideo
    @nighttimevideo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    "Jeopardise future film production, destroy our video and film industry, and your future enjoyment" David Zaslav: "Hey, that's MY job".

    • @NebLleb
      @NebLleb 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, real terrorists would rather let Hollywood destroy themselves rather than go after big studios.

    • @javianwilliams7463
      @javianwilliams7463 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      U.S Government(once they know about his actions): Alright, that’s it. Now you’re going to jail, Mr. “possible-communist”.

  • @jacharv
    @jacharv 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Very interesting! I definitely remember the “You Wouldn’t Steal A Car/Television” warnings on a few Fox DVDs from the early 2000s, which also sometimes has a Not For Rental screen with a voiceover reading it - I own some of those DVDs.
    Speaking of warnings, remember the BBFC ones from the late 90s? (especially on Warner tapes)

  • @bunnybismuth
    @bunnybismuth 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Don't forget that the "you wouldn't download" ad was made with stolen music

    • @jamesborlan2850
      @jamesborlan2850 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I remember those, those appeared on the pink panther dvds I owned as a child

    • @ultimateninetales2274
      @ultimateninetales2274 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Actually, I remember reading an article that investigated the claim and revealed that the music wasn't stolen. I would try and link it, but TH-cam will probably hide my comment .

    • @Roadent1241
      @Roadent1241 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Actually no. The whole thing was stolen and used outside of the event it was solely permitted for.

    • @ultimateninetales2274
      @ultimateninetales2274 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Again, I may not be able to link it because of TH-cam, but search "Sorry, the You Wouldn't Steal a Car" Anti-Piracy Ad Wasn't Pirated" to find it.

    • @thecinematicmind
      @thecinematicmind 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The ad was supposed to only play at film festivals.

  • @Jeffdraws101
    @Jeffdraws101 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    This was definitely a UK phenomena. I never saw so many elaborate sketches and short films about piracy. In the US all we had was the normal FBI warning.

  • @kgs9243
    @kgs9243 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I'd still be feeling happy even if there is an anti-piracy PIF on a physical media. Remember the "THANK YOU!" bumper from You Make The Movies in early 2010s 💿📀 of FOX, Sony, Universal & HiT Entertainment. Disney made good anti-piracy PIFs

  • @nathanielenochs1843
    @nathanielenochs1843 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I live in the US where our Anti-Piracy warnings were just the FBI and Interpol warnings. But however, we too even had the same “You wouldn’t steal a car” Anti-Piracy warning. We even had one that used footage from Casablanca

    • @PipimiOden
      @PipimiOden 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ah yes. the one where the people on the marketing team probably never watched the movie lol. I remember the wizard of oz one

  • @nathanielenochs1843
    @nathanielenochs1843 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Some tapes and DVDs even had the Macrovision screen too

  • @guyofminimalimportance7
    @guyofminimalimportance7 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    To explain the bit about Oil Rigs, it's important to remember that workers spend long periods of time living on oil rigs, as it would be impractical to ferry everyone to and from the rig every day. As such oil rigs have living spaces and amenities meant to provide some level of normalcy while workers are there. As such the idea of someone setting up a TV in one of their break rooms and playing a VHS on it isn't hard to imagine. That being said it is hard to imagine anyone seeing that warning in this context and feeling compelled to eject the tape.

  • @nighttimevideo
    @nighttimevideo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    8:43 This was indeed inspired by real events in the late 80's with multiple instances in the US and at least one case in the UK of cheapo public domain distributors being too cheap to buy more blank tapes and would reuse older tapes for their cartoon releases, and newspaper articles at the time confirming kids watching a bad Bugs Bunny tape then it cuts abruptly to a R-rated horror film and in many cases, hardcore porn that the video duplication factory was also in charge of. True analog horror, and I'm definitely certain this PIF was inspired by those cases.

    • @nighttimevideo
      @nighttimevideo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Steve the Amateur Historian's video essay on public domain VHS distributors goes into these cases, and highly recommend watching.

  • @JomasterTheSecond
    @JomasterTheSecond 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Fuck, don't tell Universal I was watching The Land Before Time 2 on my offshore oil rig.

  • @ShermleyCollege
    @ShermleyCollege 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Here in the US, the most we usually got were FBI Warnings (which also tell us not to watch movies at oil rigs) - though occasionally you'd get one insane enough to say the tape would destroy your VCR if it detected it was being pirated. The tape with that warning in question was intended to amuse pet cats.
    FBI Warnings already gave me mild creeps as a kid. If we had warnings like the FACT demon, I would've probably never wanted to ever watch a videotape. The 1995 PIF you showed is arguably the creepiest, just for how grounded it feels. I have heard stories and read news reports of inappropriate content being left over on cheaply-made cartoon tapes by low budget distributors.
    Because videotapes and the subject of old video piracy fascinates me, I look at tape openings and closings from around the world. "Mum, it's no good, the picture's all phunney! I carn't hear it!" has amused me for almost a decade now!

  • @indrachaudhari7874
    @indrachaudhari7874 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    5:58 Paul Heyman doing the most random thing. This should have been on WWF and ECW video tapes.

    • @CometMedalChavez
      @CometMedalChavez 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I’ll never be able to unsee that now. Devil Paul Heyman has been haunting my childhood and I never even knew it was him.

    • @Xehanort10
      @Xehanort10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He did this instead of paying the ECW wrestlers.

  • @DrBagPhD
    @DrBagPhD 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    the pirated VHS copies I had back in the day where straight up blank tapes with the movie title written on the label and card sleeve. Your cousins were living in luxury with their plastic cases and printed labels! Luxury!

    • @marblemunkey
      @marblemunkey 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same. I laugh today knowing that most of those were given to us from my grandparents; my grandfather was a retired chief of police for a smallish town.

    • @BacktothePast
      @BacktothePast  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I definitely had those kind of pirated tapes as well - figured I'd show these Disney ones off as an example of a proper counterfeit effort. :)

  • @TheRealClankZoka
    @TheRealClankZoka 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The “Piracy, it’s a Crime” PIF legit scared the living day lights out of me, like it was super intense and felt like I was getting told off for pirating films.

  • @turbomario
    @turbomario หลายเดือนก่อน

    The FACT Fire PIF actually sort of freaked me out when i first saw it. IIRC, i was 12 years old and it was on my copy of Harry Potter & The Chamber Of Secrets. At one point i also had some bootleg tapes that i got from my auntie. I recorded over them and reused the tapes, but they were The Mask and Snow White.

  • @ScreamingAllTheTime
    @ScreamingAllTheTime 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Glad to know I’m not the only one befuddled by the oil rig inclusion on the MGM tapes. They were on stuff here in the states too. America typically a lot more subdued but leveraged the menacing idea of the *FBI* coming after you if you pirated something. We took the “You wouldn’t steal a car” video too, an international sensation lol.
    Though some Warner Brothers tapes had a Batman themed FBI warning that used to scare the shit out of me.

    • @Roadent1241
      @Roadent1241 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      If you're away from home for two years because you're working on an oil rig, do you just have to go without Lion King? XD or entertainment in general?
      If yes, why? What's so bad about it?
      Coaches I get because the driver might get distracted but...?

    • @ScreamingAllTheTime
      @ScreamingAllTheTime 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Roadent1241 oh I get it, I just think it’s so funny they felt the need to specify. Like they need to let the oil rig workers know this lol

    • @BacktothePast
      @BacktothePast  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm relieved I'm not the only one, honestly! It just seems like such a random location to exclude VHS tapes from, like watching one in a tree, or on the beach, or underwater. And check in for next week's review if you want my view on the FBI warnings. :)

  • @darthkahn45
    @darthkahn45 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The resentment I feel towards being deliberately prayed on and frightened by some of these companies as a child has, in adulthood completely removed of any guilt whatsoever when it comes to the countless movies and shows i've illegally downloaded over the years. I in fact take great pleasure in it.
    They knew video copying would cost them a lot of money (but would not come close to ruining them) so instead of trying to lecture the adults, they instead opted to traumatize the next generation...Children

  • @AwesomeHyperSonic547
    @AwesomeHyperSonic547 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Admittedly watching those PSA/PIFs, you can’t help but wonder if counterfeit VHS tapes really did ruin or damage your VCR player if you used them, and more so how. That FACT “pirates are out to get you” PIF/PSA was always so scary to be greeted with, when trying to watch What’s New Scooby Doo or something similar. 😬😬

    • @TheJRWH
      @TheJRWH 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well, I have a bit of experience there... I have a couple of pirated tapes in my collection, and the 'damage' referred to is basically the risk of the pirates having used poor quality tape.
      Poor quality or badly stored VHS tape has a considerable risk of disintegrating inside a VCR, depositing oxide onto the playback heads (rendering them unable to play), having abrasive qualities which wears down heads, and just generally screwing with your VCR.
      In my case, one of the pirated tapes dumped loads of oxide onto my VCRs heads, meaning I had to deep-clean it several times before it would work again. Fortunately, that was when I was transferring the tape to digital so I don't have to play it again 😂

    • @AwesomeHyperSonic547
      @AwesomeHyperSonic547 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TheJRWH Gosh, that sounds like a nightmare. I had no idea that an illegal VHS tape could erode the playback heads. That’s scary. Interesting nevertheless, thanks for the info.

    • @TheJRWH
      @TheJRWH 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@AwesomeHyperSonic547Yep, but it's very rare, and to be honest, after the early 90's most pirates just used cheap blanks that were unremarkable and no different to those you could buy at like a supermarket.

  • @madontherun
    @madontherun 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The fact you couldn't even "LEND" out your vinyl records, books ,CDs, Tapes , VHS tapes is laughable. I bought it , it's mine ! imagine if you couldn't lend your lawn mower to your sister because there was a big warning on the chassis ! LOL

  • @TheJRWH
    @TheJRWH 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    OK so I already put this as a reply to a comment, but I think its worth it's own comment...
    The reference to 'damage your video cassette recorder' ( 2:54 ) is sort of true.
    What it refers to is how pirate copies very rarely came on incredibly poor quality tape.
    Normally they would just use cheap duplicator blanks or store-bought blanks, but (and it seems to be more with older tapes) you would get blanks which contained low quality tape that had very poor formulations, and would shed their oxide coating all over the video and audio heads.
    In my experience these blanks were either Chinese, or possibly from the USSR (yep, that old).
    This of course would more or less totally ruin the heads until they could be deep-cleaned, which most people couldn't readily do with home cleaning tapes.
    In addition, some had abrasive qualities that wore down heads more quickly than normal tape, which has lubricants and other elements to protect the heads - this is a phenomenon that also occurs with low quality audio tape occasionally.
    My knowledge of this comes from my collection of about 6 pirate tapes, all of which I digitised, and two of which decided to dump oxide all over my transfer VCR, meaning I had to dismantle and manually clean the thing several times 😂

    • @BacktothePast
      @BacktothePast  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wow, I've struggled with basic video head issues multiple times, but that really does take the cake! Glad I haven't had that issue... yet. 😄

    • @TheJRWH
      @TheJRWH 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BacktothePast Yeah so I did more digging, and yeah there was also a phenomenon of poor quality fake 'Chrome' bias cassettes using cut-down video tape to try and achieve Chrome results, admittedly the VHS formula does take a stronger signal than straight-up ferric tape but yeah not really meant for that use either 😅

  • @PolarManne
    @PolarManne 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As an American I never really saw these sorts of heavy handed anti-piracy warnings until the DVD era (and those were more against downloading stuff from the Internet instead of buying bootlegs). Most tapes would have the generic, silent FBI warning and that's it. Nor did I ever see holographic stickers on tapes, even on ones from companies like Disney.

  • @Xehanort10
    @Xehanort10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    5:50 "Don't buy pirated VHS tapes or a grinning maniac will brand you."

  • @LensmithOfficial
    @LensmithOfficial 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I would watch a TH-cam video on an oil rig.

    • @Roadent1241
      @Roadent1241 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oooooh. Risktaker XD

  • @jamesborlan2850
    @jamesborlan2850 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember seeing these as a kid
    Not on vhs since I'm not from the uk
    But I do remember seeing these anti piracy messages on TH-cam
    I do remember those you wouldn't steal a car video piracy messages from my pink panther dvds which the it crowd actually poked fun at
    Great video
    Fun fact there's a bootleg betamax of fantasia with the looney tunes short thar parodies fantasia from miracle productions with a hilarious message that says "mess with us and you'll be slapped with a lawsuit so fast your head will spin"
    How ironic since miracle productions made illegal betamax tapes of a disney film

  • @Wodienfor
    @Wodienfor 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The earliest I recall seeing these piracy warnings was the Warner Bros. one from the mid 90's, which informed me about piracy. It's not scary to me, but it is pretty informative on what happens when you bought a pirated tape. Though the Disney ones beat that because it also tells you that it could damage your VCR and the tapes are sold outside reputable retailers.
    The closest one that I find scary was the early 00's FACT warning, which I remember seeing on a retail tape of the Garfield Christmas tape, of all things. I was surprised they added that warning to the tape, considering it was a kids video and the warning may scare little kids.
    The mid 00's warning felt too over-the-top and feels like it would've belong on some sort of crime programme.
    I don't remember seeing the "Pirate Videos: Daylight Robbery" PIF as a child, especially since we no longer have a VCR, sadly, but I do remember watching it on TH-cam. It's pretty funny and memorable, especially with that guy selling illegal copies.
    "Yeah, yeah, yeah, No trains in it either. I suppose that's my fault as well"
    The warning still has a good message.
    Very interesting VHS review, and you have reminded me once again about my VHS discoveries in my childhood. Sweet job.

  • @FMCREPAIRARMAGH22
    @FMCREPAIRARMAGH22 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Never mind the Piracy look how fast her download was going 7:57

  • @wheelieblind
    @wheelieblind 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The amount of teachers who let us watch cartoons from tapes. nobody read the warning if their was one, the teacher might of even used the fast forward to get to the story, nobody wants to sit and wait threw the warning parts lol. Also if that hologram thing is a sticker we might peal it off and put it on something else for fun as it is a hologram after all.

  • @joeberryman3563
    @joeberryman3563 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Please don't buy pirate video tapes, or we'll have to pull the trigger.

  • @CatalinaMaxCisternasJofre
    @CatalinaMaxCisternasJofre 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Anti-Piracy bumpers on DVD are better than these.

  • @TheJRWH
    @TheJRWH 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lmao the 'Illegal Video Cassettes' hologram warnings used to terrify me, until I grew up and found an ironic charm in the ads and the legendary pirated tapes lol 😆
    As for the Fox warning with the threatening voiceover, I better remember the Pathe version (same ad, different hologram) which was on Chicken Run, my favourite film 🤣

    • @BacktothePast
      @BacktothePast  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yep, I remember it well from the Chicken Run VHS! Love that movie, hope to review it someday. :)

  • @FurQ69
    @FurQ69 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The funniest part of this is the only people who saw these warnings were genuine viewers as this was always cut from the moody ones we used to get, the quality was always fine too.

  • @stacydraper1001
    @stacydraper1001 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome video!
    I thought I was the only one interested in these copyright warnings as a young child lol 😁

    • @BacktothePast
      @BacktothePast  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I like to hope some viewers of the channel were just as weird as myself as a kid.😁

  • @patnewbie2177
    @patnewbie2177 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You wouldn't download an oil rig.

  • @Acidonia150reborn
    @Acidonia150reborn 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Notting Hill musoc video for You say it Best When you say Nothing at all has a Guy trying to sell Bootleg Tapes of the film in. Yet he is holdoing a PSP looking machine showing video footage of the movie which was tech that could not exist when film was made. Yet ive never once in my life at any market or car boots in UK ever seen someone selling Bootleg VHS it was always CDR copies of PS1 games or DVDS instead.

  • @monicamerolli7200
    @monicamerolli7200 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My favorate is the disney one

  • @jimjim6630
    @jimjim6630 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I have some information regarding VHS piracy😂😂

    • @BacktothePast
      @BacktothePast  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Got a receipt, eh? GOT A RECEIPT?! 😆

    • @jimjim6630
      @jimjim6630 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂

  • @koiyune
    @koiyune 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

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