However, in regards to this trope, they are usually ignored. Keep Circulating the Tapes and Abandonware are related concepts. The unintended side effect of browbeating legitimate paying customers while pirates don't see these warnings anyway has also led to subversions where DVDs will thank the viewer for paying for the movie. In Europe this can lead to three almost identical warnings in German (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), two in Dutch (The Netherlands and Belgium) at least three in French (France and Belgium and Switzerland again), two in Italian (Italy and, you guessed it, Switzerland), two in English (the UK and Ireland), a number of very similar Slavic languages as well as a number of similar warnings in the Nordic countries. Ironically, the person who's logically most likely to see it is someone who legally paid to own a copy, because those who end up distributing these downloads like to edit them out. sometimes the disc can't even be stopped while it's playing. In the most extreme cases, this segment can't be skipped. Many DVDs also include a PSA in the beginning about how piracy is wrong. When you start a commercially released VHS tape, DVD, or Blu-ray Disc, they usually open with verbose, unskippable screens from the FBI or Interpol warning the viewer massive fines and time in jail can happen as a result of piracy.

Expect physical theft to be used as a comparison and/or a plot point. Any good character who doesn't fall in with this philosophy will learn their lesson by the end of the episode. If you're watching television, it doesn't matter if the characters are drug-smuggling, whore-mongering, granny-beating, world-destroying murderers: the illegal downloading of movies and music is guaranteed to morally offend them.

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