Been head down bum up for a while, that’s busy with work to the rest of you! But recently noticed the spate of TV and Radio adverts featuring the nasty piece of work that is Knock-off Nigel, the kind of steals from the office whip round and the communal fridge, oh and downloads films??? Yes the movie industry if trying to edjukate us that these types are the criminal fringe or lowest form of man and are not to be trusted, easily to spot, they have cheap films! The most annoying element of the whole ad is the lack of branding or underwriting. It’s clearly a message no one wants to actually put their name to? You pay for loads of TV and Radio air time and you don’t want to brand it?? That’s because they know it will have a back lash, and they don’t know just how much of one there will be, so these companies that want to classify music and video copyright infringement alongside terrorism and gross fraud don’t want you to know it’s them, in case you don’t think that one or two cd-r albums or the odd dvd-r film brands you a scum of the earth type.

However it doesn’t take genuis to source the advertiser, the website promoting the Knock-off Nigel campaign equally has no reference to the owner. But a whois look-up show it registered to ‘ Lara Joseph’ of ’80-110 New Oxford Street London WC1A 1HB’, hhmmm, but a search for the postcode quickly turns up the office of Universal Pictures….! So there you go, Universal want everyone who has ever obtained a film without paying the full RRP to be classified as someone who is not be trusted and is likely to steal from their grannies purse. But apparently all the employees at Universal are halo holding RRP angels.

Grow some balls UP. I fully expect that a UP droid will crawl this page and organise a firearms unit to be despatched asap to take me down.

I am glad I am not a UFO spotter looking on the net for any non-restricted information, that’s even worse apparantly!

Think the film industry needs a chill pill.

~ by Thinker on 4 - August - 2008.