Yesterday, thanks to the video being mentioned on sites like
boingboing,
slashdot and several other
sites, the trailer for SIIA's new anti-piracy video, titled
Don't Copy That 2 (DCT2), went viral with over 30,000 hits in one day. It even made its way to
France. Not surprisingly, the comments are quite similar to what we saw with the original
Don't Copy That Floppy video about 17 years ago... the usual rants and anti-copyright, anti-corporate invective, mixed in with some thoughtful arguments defending the rights of content creators and enjoying excerpts from the video. Many people can't seem to figure out whether the video is a parody or serious or something in between. I guess they'll have to wait for the actual video to be released later this summer to find out. For those of you unfamiliar with the history of the video or why, 17 years later, we decided to make a sequel, check out my prior
blog.