(POSSIBLE LOST MEDIA) paramount anti-piracy screen (REAL)
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- Опубликовано: 5 мар 2022
- I found this vhs at a flea market. At the bottom every 2/1 minutes it would say something like “ Property of vaicom” shoutouts: @ByteMatux for making a remake of the w
I have a higher quality rip of this if anyone wants to see it. I got a set of rugrats tapes last year and one of them had this; throughout the course of the tape “property of Viacom” comes on screen every few minutes at the bottom
Edit: it's up on my channel now. I may also put the whole tape on the internet archive, but they've cracked down on copyright as of late.
Have you digitized them yet? Would love to upload the promos
@@QueenofVHS yeah I have a copy of it on my media server, I just need to download it and cut it down for RUclips. If I can, I might put the whole tape on the internet archive
@@chumbert5 Would it be possible if I could upload the promos that are on the tapes? My email is in my bio, I will give you credit
Yes we do!
@@paul329869 ?
You can tell this is a real anti-piracy screen because it isn't just a shitty attempt at scaring you.
Instead of scaring this informs you, yeah.
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@@ianschwartz08 Damn bruh they left you on read 💀
Now this is a REAL anti piracy screen; no jump scares, no demonic imagery, just pure legit information on the screen
Legality can be creepy to some people, I think.
@@aperson8077 The Paramount DVD, feature presentation, and other things honestly are creepy even without any cliche horror stuff for some reason, yeah.
Every time when a anti piracy screen shows this message where it starts off as "Oops! The fun has ended. We cannot find the signal" it's a overused and cliche message, but I'm glad this is a actual anti piracy warning without any jump scare material.
tbh its still just as scary because its so silent and then it cuts off lmao
That's what makes it scarier.
Funny how not putting any disturbing imagery makes it infinitely more chilling.
Chilling?…Listen to the music of this shit. Am i the only mf who found the fanfare horrifying as a kid
@@demonreacts7816 I’ve personally had never heard the song that plays before this.
I think that made it even more haunting due to it feeling so familiar without even knowing it.
@@B.H.L.studios nah, it just sounds too dramatic for some reason. Perfect for horror movies tho
Or sound, then the cut to static.
What’s so spooky about piracy? It’s certainly a crime, and a no good one at that, but I can’t find the scary.
I used to work at a video store. We'd get these to view weeks prior and our managers would have us watch them so we could explain the plots/ make recommendations to customers.
These pre-release movies(aka screeners) usually would usually have strange visual edits, such as randomly going black and white, switching from widescreen to standard, with warnings at the bottom intermittently stating pretty much the same as shown.
i watched a physical copy of 8-Mile as a preteen that sounds a like this. repeating text at the bottom stating the same as this stuff
Funny how my old movie theater job wouldn't let us watch early screenings of movies.
@@okeus same, but the one I saw was for 30 Days and 30 Nights starring Josh Hartnett (remember him?)
My middle school theatre class watched a copy of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat that had text scrolling at the bottom every so often to that effect, though I think it stated it was a rental property of Universal rather than a pre-release copy.
That, and the occasional 20-minute informercial at the top about how buying 40 extra copies of Terminator 2 will make Baby Jesus happy.
I don't think I've ever enjoyed an anti-piracy screen so much before, what makes it better is its not some fake Sonic.exe bullshit
Ikr, “scary” is overrated
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Ironically this video scarier
@@chopper7867 The police have been notified!!!1!
Hell yeah, I remember this. The thought of there being an anti-piracy hotline is really funny though.
How
@@haydentcem I find it funny cause who is going to call it? For real?
@@chaossmith3864 If someone accidentally has a pirated copy and takes the FBI seriously?
@@haydentcem I mean most people would probably be more worried about getting in trouble too.
I remember for a while they were threatening people for just having pirated materials pretty hard.
@@haydentcem how tf are they gonna know you have a tape? Like who cares? 😂
Anti-piracy lore: Cursed video games, demons living in the tapes, pure distilled terror
Anti-piracy gameplay:
Actually the gameplay is all the cursed shit and the lore is just this, "lmao he wants shit free let's say no"
Lol. I like the Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon one because it is just up front with you
Oh my god, that paramount intro just brought a HUGE wave of nostalgia
I use to say to my wife as I crawled into bed at night "And now...our feature presentation".... =P
Shoutout to my homies who grew up with this when watching Nickelodeon/Nick Jr shows on VHS✌🏻
I agree the Paramount DVD Menu also it brings back a lot of nostalgia because it used to be so a little creepy imo 😂
@@SofiaPreCure I remember that anti-piracy PSA where it said "You wouldn't steal a Television" or some shit LMAO
Only for it to switch to Anything Goes in butchered Guangdongese or Illia's Theme right after.
"Promotional copy" actually has a specific meaning. Most likely, a "promotional copy" would be one given out to members of the academies that vote for things like the Oscars and the Emmys. Both of those awards are given out by "academies" that consist of dozens of members, and special screeners are given to members of these academies to help them view nominated movies and TV shows.
I thought promo copies was for business stuff, like being given in advance to stores and screeners for a home video release. Like a Vinyl Test pressing
@@pentexsucks43 In the UK we called them "demo tapes". These were sent to rental stores for the owners to preview before ordering from the wholesaler. They'd also be used to show in store as well.
"Yes, I'd like to order 10 copies, please. ...WHAT DO YOU MEAN BLOCKBUSTER AND RITZ GOT THEM ALL!?"
nah you are wrong. Pentex Sucks is completely right
Not necessarily. We got this same message on the advance copies provided to video rental/retailers.
Seeing those physical special copies always used to make me very curious, & observe (DVD's) as a kid.
I clicked this expecting a jumpscare but was pleasantly surprised. I wonder if warnings like this one are well-documented given that they only appear on prerelease copies, likely given to rental stores for their employees?
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That moment when a silent but detailed and informative anti-piracy message intimidates the user about how piracy can cause legal ramifications better than the hundreds of shit-tier creepypasta type videos with fake glitches or fake text.
This Piracy warning is a part of our 2000s childhood.
You wouldn't steal a car,
you wouldn't steal a handbag,
you wouldn't steal a television,
you wouldn't steal a movie.
Downloading pirated films is stealing,
stealing is against the law,
PIRACY IT'S A CRIME
This is more worldwide, i'm from Europe and every1 saw this, not the one in this video
Don’t forget you wouldn’t steal chocolate!
2001 born and I agree!
@@rdusuper8You wouldn’t kill a police man, steak his helmet, give it to his wife, steal it again, take a dump while wearing the helmet, and then give it back to his still grieving wife
My uncle owned a rental shop back in the 90s and he'd get screeners shipped to him all the time to watch if he wanted to buy copies for his store. He wasn't supposed to share them, but of course he did so I saw these sorts of warnings in movies I got to watch on VHS before a retail release date. I also remember sometimes seeing things like PROMOTIONAL COPY popping up every so often at the top and bottom of the picture during the movie.
I'd have been so jealous of you as a kid lol - must have been pretty neat
Yea half the bootlegs i got were ripped from screeners. Same thing. I want to say some even paused the movie for a second but that might be a false memory.
This is the comment I was looking for. My mom used to date a guy from a video rental store and she had like 5 dozen tapes with this warning, and part-ways through the tape the warning would come up again.
@@nickmiroli I had heard that Academy members did that. The Academy screeners I borrowed from an Academy member were (obviously) legitimately obtained but people had mentioned that some of the Academy members were copying their Oscar screeners and posting them online somehow.
This is actually more chilling than the fake “creepy” ones, and I think it’s because there’s no music in the background
You expect the movie to start, and then there’s just silence and words scrolling down the screen
Somehow, that makes it scarier than the fake ones
But that’s just my opinion
I’m glad I’m not the only one that thinks that
yeah right after the audio was dead silent i immediately scrolled down just in case
yes it scared me and specially the repeated logo in the background
TBH idk why but the blue background with the Paramount: ViacomCBS Company logo looping, along with the text, and no music makes me uneasy for some reason
This is legit. I owned some vhs tapes when Paramount distributed the Peanuts (Charlie Brown) cartoons and this was in those tapes. Although the anti piracy message was shorter since it was not a promo tape
Ok I can confirm that that is a normal tape and not a screener.
As a kid I was terrified of the regular feature presentation screen so I can tell if I saw the anti piracy one I'd be crying from fear and/or have nightmares for the next month
i dont blame you i would be scared too
I can appreciate when people add in spooky stuff order to scare people away from pirated media, but an anti piracy screen that tells you the basics of what happened and the possibility that you have committed a crime is really the only thing you have to do.
Can't make moa stew anymore, they're extinct, along with their natural predator the Haast's eagle.
Hands up if this was in your recommended
This IS real.
When I was younger, I had a VHS for Dora's Pirate Adventure. (I still have it). It played this screen at the start,
I can confirm. This is LEGIT.
Still unsettling, either way.
"Dora's Pirate Adventure"? Fitting.
I'm calling the hotline.
More like Dora's pirated adventure
This isn't actually lost media, but something that appears on promotional & (I think) demo tapes from Paramount. One example includes that rare Wonder Pets tape from 2007 or SpongeBob: Absorbing Favorites from 2005.
I don't think it's specifically for promo tapes, I most definitely recall this piracy screen (or something extremely close) on various different Viacom tapes I own (PAL region mind you, am Australian so it might be a regional use-case)
@@jackeldridge1319 Yeah that could be just on PAL region tapes. Releases over here used the Licensed for Private Home Viewing screen unless if THEY used it as well.
I think I had one of those tapes and it played that screen and scared the ever living crap out of me
i recognised the thumbnail and took a look for that reason. definitely have a vague memory of seeing this as a kid, and gonna assume that this was a common thing for us aussies.
I uniquely remember seeing these screensaver lookin' visuals on Blue Clues video tapes, Jimmy Neutron, the Peanuts, & et-cetra this upgraded my nostalgia.
I remember when ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) tried to sue clubs that had bands play cover songs of other peoples music. And , they tried to sue phone companies, for using copyrighted music as ringtones, they sued The Boy & Girl Scouts Of America, for singing ASCAP’s copyrighted songs at their campfires.
They failed miserably, in all lawsuits, the judges thought it was ridiculous, he’s absolutely right!
No worse than when WB claimed the Happy Birthday song and charged royalties and sued ppl. Okay, just as bad.
This is truly eerie to me. The Audible but distorted sound at the beginning followed by pure silence, the scrolling text with the logo plastered all over, AND THEN WEIRD ASS STATIC AT THE END. Like bro is this creepy for no reason at all💀
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It going silent after a few seconds makes it scarier. As a kid and even now as an adult I still have a fear of warning screens with no music or eerie music
i know everyone says “OOH IT’S NOT SCARY” but my autistic brain is like SOMETHING THAT ISNT USUALLY THERE? TIME TO BE TERRIFIED
and b4 anyone asks i am actually autistic please don’t think I’m saying that in a mean or demeaning way
LITERALLY SAME i have autism too and i know nothing is wrong but i feel like i’m being scolded for something i didn’t do but nobody believes me 😭
Same here.
As a fellow autistic, this actually happens
Hey look, another autistic person who fears legit early 2000s anti-piracy screens just like I do!
If I were a kid and saw this screen I'd probably be freaking out.
Edit: If you are gonna reply just to call me a wuss, screw off. Yes, I was easily frightened as a kid. At least I have the balls to admit it.
This mf really scared of text scrolling on a screen. I wonder what you'd do if you saw the end credits of most movies, how terrifying!
Jesus how fucking whipped is this generation when scrolling text makes you freak out do star wars openings scare you as well? lol
yeah no it’s not the scrolling text being scary, it’s just the overall vibe this gives off.
that coupled with the feeling that *you could have stolen something and not known* really (not outright scared but) puts a feeling of unease in your gut
@@seacatgirls Nah, you're just a wuss and you're scared of text on a screen.
I mean sure it would have taken me a minute, but once i saw the full first paragraph, I'd be like "OH MY GOD AM I NOT SUPPOSED TO BE WATCHING THIS!?" Then i'd see the US number in the next set of text and call it in a panic, scared as heck the entire time.
I remember watching some pirated Simpsons DVD and the 20th Century Fox intro had a weird cheery music instead of the original one.
It scared the shit out of me, made me run to my parents bed.
Why is everyone here so mad over an anti piracy trend... that happened over a year ago lol?
Really cool find btw.
Because it still exists.
@@so12productions it still exists AND misleading + .exe method is overused
I have something kinda like this, it's a promotional VHS for the short-lived cartoon Bruno the Kid. There's a bunch of business-related info and various warnings at the start of the tape, and maybe even something about Wendys (the clamshell indicates they were running a promotion). It didn't do anything funny, it occasionally just flashed a, "This VHS is for promotional purposes only not for retail" message at the bottom of the screen here and there.
I remember my taekwondo dojo growing up would do lock in movie nights in the early 2000's and we watched Jimmy Neutron a week or two before it was available on video too. Don't remember any interesting details on that tape, just that it happened.
Imagine if OP and several dozen or so people repeatedly buy this off of each other and call the number listed.
As someone who had a friend that worked at Red Giraffe in the 90s, I had about a dozen movies with this screen.
Theory: this was a special blockbuster or Hollywood video tape that was given out JUST for rentals.
How it wound up in your possession is up to you
i kinda agree but how would the tape know that you rented a pirated film?
@@misseselise3864 it was a special tape made only for rentals.
Did you even read it? It's clearly not a rental.
Never recalled? Or paramount just never really tried that hard to collect em? Does make you wonder... Kinda reminds me of those DS kiosk demo carts gamestop would have out you can find em on ebay.
@@Gameplayer1500X yeah like those
The silence is the scariest part of all. That and the fact that someone set up an anti-piracy hotline.
Actually no, I would have loved to work the hotline…
I honestly thought this was a Creepypasta attempt. I've only ever watched the "feature presentation" part on some DVDs or VHSs somewhere. Very funny that it tells the viewer that if anyone other than its intended holder watches the tape that they committed a crime. And, yes, I read another comment that the cassette is most likely a promotional copy of some kind for "review purposes". Cool find either way. That's a piece for the movie oddities collection.
As mentioned: this is a screener. I first learned about them back in 1991. My uncle opened a tiny video store in the late 80s. I visited him & he was like “do you want to watch a new movie?”.....i was thinking Home Alone, which was on video. Instead he brought out Robot Jox, Oscar and The Marrying Man. All 3 were showing at a local multiplex as we watched them in his den. They were distributed to video stores closely after release to let shop owners determine how many copies they wanted to preorder.
In those days, shop owners might not want to order multiple copies of a bad flick (or might want to order more of a movie that was unseen)....regardless, these tapes would have numbers to call so some shop owner couldn’t say “we have X movie before it is even on video”.
In those days, with the number of small stores, the frequency of piracy was very high. I collected some 3500 tapes over time and will tell you, some of the purchased at a certain shop, are obviously cross taped copies. Today it’s irrelevant, but in the 80s there was no real regulation.
Unless you tried something dumb....like renting a screener. There are probably hundreds of these available on eBay as the tape can be sold as “collector to collector” and there’s nothing they can do with that.
The ominous silence kinda makes you feel like you still have to send out copies of the tape before the seven days are up.
It's actually way more unsettling and weirdly creepy/uneasy to watch than some random fake anti-piracy screen
agreed. in fact, in my opinion, things made to scare people in general somehow aren’t scary 90% of the time
Am i the only one that gets real scared of outro company screens after the credits of a movie? It toes the same with something like this, either just complete silence or a lion roaring at you basically saying this is over now. I dont know why i get chills seeing it
Absolutely I get it. Even worse is when dvds would silently display poor quality anti piracy warnings post film.
Ugh ik EXACTLY WHAT YOUR TAKING ABT. I don’t remember The name of the company but it was the people who made Coraline, and it was specifically their logo with the sound at the end of the movie that scared me when I was little. Still scares me now and idk why. I remember at the end of the movie I would literally go running for my room just so I didn’t have to see or hear it. Lmao
Hmm must just be you
Were they after the credits? All the tapes I remember had them before the movie, usually between the previews and the film itself. Maybe it’s a regional thing.
I always hated those, the “coming soon” transitions and rating screens, and the anti-piracy warnings. The piracy ones always made me feel like I was being watched or wasn’t supposed to be seeing it. I’d even hold totally still and sometimes not breathe until the warning went away…idk, I was a weird kid.
holy fuck you just unlocked childhood memories for me, that stuff used to scare the SHIT out of me for no reason. I do remember also our VCR used to eat tapes sometimes and I vividly remember the end of dumb & dumber would always get eaten by the VCR always causing some crazy distortion that I was absolute PETRIFIED of. Nowadays i would think it's funny but idk something about that stuff as a kid just felt different.
Yeah but this shit still scared me as a kid. Remember playing putting in the vhs and the blue screen with text and the fbi symbol came up? That stuff always scared me.
We had at least one VHS with this on it. I believe it was Blues Clues.
Sadly, I think we sold all of our Blues Clues tapes years ago.
This brings back so much memories😩
This reminds me of those analog horror things for some reason
We had a promotional copy of Home Alone 2 on VHS at my school. When we watched it I remember the warnings came up on screen, barely obscuring the action, and the kids lost their minds.
this is somehow scarier than crappy made up ones, because how clearly real it is and terrifying it would be to see randomly trying to watch a movie
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This is definitely convincing, because there's no "ooooooh you're gonna go to jail ooooooh"
That whole “feature presentation” clip and chime is nostalgia in its purest form
Wow, what a blast from the past! When I was really young my mom worked at a video rental store and she would get to keep these tapes. 80% of our movie collection back then were these demo tapes.
They would sometimes scroll the message across the video during movie at various points, too.
Some studios would just have a crawl across the bottom of the screen, but others would scroll up from the bottom to the top, covering the whole image while the video is playing
When I was little I was horrified by the Warner Bros. Wizard Of Oz anti-piracy commercial on Peanuts DVDs. It was always a jumpscare after the Warner Bros. Logo. "IIII AM OZ!!!" The giant floating head was frightening too.
I actually remember this from the peanuts vhs
The pure silence just would have catched me off guard and expected me to see a jumpscare of some sort at the end but it didn’t have one which is what’s scary about it it makes you think there is gonna be something scary but there isn’t
The good kind of horror, when you dont feel the sudden WAH! that is forgotten mere minutes after, but rather the slow, painful dread that will linger whith you untill the very end.
I remember this! I’m pretty sure this was on my VHS of Blue’s Big Musical Movie since it was the only Nickelodeon movie that I owned back then
Then you must have had a screener copy then
Holy crap this is brings so much nostalgia moments for me when growing up on vhs tapes and a giant boxy tv in my room. I was 4-6 at that time, I’m 18 now but damn haven’t seen that screen in so many years. Good memories.
The graphic designs are just so elegant yet very futuristic looking. They really had amazing taste.
I worked at a video store. This was a common alert at the beginning of promotional videos. there were also screen crawls at the bottom periodically during the video.
I've got a Josh Kirby Time Warrior VHS with this. Far as I know it's relatively common for screener VHS's that were given to video stores. Throughout the tape "Screener - Not for Resale" appears at the bottom of the picture too I think
Tbh this would be more scary to me than one of those bs “scary” anti piracy screens
*This is a historic piece of video cassette history.*
Behold everybody, the jumpscareless jumpscare!
Dang, this takes me back. My parents got a box of VHS "screeners" from a family friend who was moving when I was a kid. Nobody knows how he got them. Most of them were low budget schlock and had "Promotional Copy" superimposed over the bottom the whole time.
Exact thing happened to me. How does someone just get a hold of so many not for resale dvds?
I can't believe how mesmerized people are by this. Seems like a bunch of younger people who never used VHS tapes very much and think there's something mystical about them.
Leave it to the zoomers to think that shit is scary when it isn’t. I mean seriously, anti-piracy screens is "scary"? Aside from being totally clueless about VHS, these people never have pirated anything before apparently.
@@Sofiaode18 I hate the anti piracy meme videos because it buries the legitimate anti piracy screen videos in search results. I’m the type of person that likes to search old bumpers and logos and whatnot, and this makes it annoying.
@@Sofiaode18 However I did find the Feature Presentation screen scary when I was 4-5 years old, but I guarantee you I was far from the only one. I actually had the tapes too.
@@filetofish7688 Exactly, but thank god that fake anti piracy screens are awfully over the top so it's actually easy to spot them. I'm so not a big fan of them because it's obvious that they're made by people who have never pirated a product or bought it before. Like, the worst you can get from pirated dvds are bad visuals and crappy subtitles. Pirating stuff has always been a personal enjoyment for me ever since I figured out how to do it in elementary school, so to see fake ass "you're gonna go to jail" type of shit being touted as scary is just funny to me. And yeah, that part about feature presentations was pretty relatable. Who wasn't scared of the good ol THX logo?
@@Sofiaode18 It's because of people who make scary VHS tapes. I don't get scared of these, but a lot of people do. Of course many people haven't actually pirated something, but that isn't the point, the point is for entertainment. It surprises people to see a real one and not one created for horror videos, and how simular it looks compared to one made to scare.
At least this is what I think is the reason.
here we go again
Ayyy you got the music badge
Stoked seeing this
this is rlly good!
😳 literally the most terrifying screen of my entire childhood made even more scary
Fascinating. I have a couple paramount vhses but the anti piracy screen is different. On my tapes the text is static (doesn’t move).
I believe I have this on a store rental VHS of “George of the Jungle 2.” I think can recall this screen being on the tape. I was very young when I got it as my grandmother was friends with the owner of a local video store. Mine also appeared to have a glitchy quality to it like this does.
I hadn't heard of this kind of jump scare. I can't be everywhere online I guess... but despite not knowing about there being jump scares associated with lost media of piracy notifications... I immediately thought that was what was coming. I've been online far too long.
I remember this on a lot of rentals from Blockbuster. Normally something like this is on screen for ten seconds and you move on, but the fact it was as long as it was after happily announcing the feature presentation would annoy me.
Geez. I think about how attention spans can be short now but remember not wanting to sit through thirty seconds of this.
This is what they would put at the start of their promotional screening tapes, or demo tapes, of potential VHS releases Paramount was working on. Instead of the usual copyright notice, it would instead have a scrolling list of details about how that particular cassette was a promo for Paramount use only, not for sale or rental, and you should contact the number on the screen if you bought it from somewhere. However, now that VHS tapes aren’t being made by Paramount anymore, I doubt they still care, unless the movie is still in stock as a DVD, BluRay, or video on a streaming platform.
do anti-piracy screens scare tf out of me? yes. am i gonna watch this anyways? also yes
You and me both
@@blackerthanafrica445 At least this one was mercifuly short, and rolled as a very informational document, as a child, I feel like this would have been less scary as some other screens. Then again, the Jim Henson Workshops logo with the lazer frightened me, so...
It was the sound, man, it was at such a weird pitch, it's unnatural!
I do not understand how this can be scary, and I would be pleased if any of you guys receiving the notification for my reply could try to explain to me how this can be scary.
@@whoelsebutmeofcoursei As a child, I used to find things like these and error messages scary; I couldn't really tell you why exactly, but I've done some thought on it, and here's what I've come up with.
I think the main factor is a deviation from what is expected. This is true both for glitches and these screens. Firstly, they're mostly silent walls of text in what is otherwise a medium that has integrated audio and visual, and not much text. Oftentimes, if there is sound, like in the case ofmany logo screens, they're loud, and often shrill or sweeping, again, sounds that aren't very common in nature, and therefore ones a child is going to find strange and unfamiliar. Because both situations feature something familiar (say, a VHS tape or a DVD movie) combined with something unfamiliar, foreign, or unexpected, (unfamiliar sounds/ sound pitches, static screens with text) I think it activates a child's sense of the Uncanny Valley. I also would think, that perhaps children are often more sensitive to the Uncanny Valley Effect as a survival mechanism. Being afraid of the unknown, unfamiliar, or the not-quite-right would help keep a vulnerable organism safer, so I would assume that these things activate a hyper-sensitive detection of these things as a side effect of that.
Again, couldn't really tell you why child me was terrified of the Jim Henson "Laser Kermit" logo, but this is my best guess!
@@StrykerMagnum very good, i can understand now
0:00 That opening music gives me so much nostalgia.
The CRT TV speakers make it even better.
I remember seeing this Paramount intro when I was about five years old it was so cool in every way I don’t know why but it was.
Most likely a screener copy. Our local store used to play movies a week or so before thier vhs release on tvs on the wall. It was intended to get coustomers to notice the movie and ask questions about its release date. Would have worked wonders for direct to video movies for small production companies. But they where supposed to return the tapes and never put them up for rent or retail.
Now THIS is a true anti-piracy screen!
We used to have so many of these. My uncle used to be VP of Blockbuster for that region and would send us screeners, as they're called, all the time.
This kind of warning used to be on video store preview tapes. Distributors would send films out early back in the day to video rental chain stores so that the employees would be well versed on a particular film before it was released as a rental to the public. It was probably one of the few perks of working in a video store. What awful places.
i assure you, this is probably not lost media. i've seen this paramount multipule times watching blues clues vhs tapes.
Holy crap this is so cool, you should upload the whole tape
I can’t cuz it’s almost a hour but I think there’s a archive on the pinned comment
I remember seeing this on a bob the builder vhs tape as a kid. Damn I miss the 2000s.
Ive seen a nearly identical version many times, but with static text instead of scrolling text. Neat find
My mom used to make me read these out loud to scare me even more :,)
How old is the tape itself? It looks to be in poor condition, or maybe the VCR needs to be cleaned out. Either way, pretty cool find! It’s cool to see things like this be found and shared! There use to be a promotional copy of the Cats Don’t Dance movie on Internet Archives and every so often a line of text would appear stating that it was a promotional copy for store use only and if sold to contact the Non Piracy Hotline. I honestly wonder if the number still works lol.
probably early 2000s is my guess
Its not a new find, these have been up on YT for years, the uploader is just unaware
@@MrJimmysteel25 yeah, these promo tapes are relatively common, not lost
the number's out of service :(
Probably 80s imo this is a VHS, early 2000s is relatively new
As it said during the scrolling text; "This videocassette is a promotional copy"
Which I think is basically a screener for video stores
This is what a anti-piracy screen ACTUALLY looks like. No analogue horror crap or no demonic jumpscares, just silence as words scroll down the screen.
This was a promo tape given to stores by Paramount. Most were video rental stores, but other stores got them too. Paramount began to encode the tapes with some weird technology that would erase the tape as it played, but I have no clue how it turned out or if that technology could be defeated. One promo VHS of Indecent Proposal is the only tape like that I’ve ever seen. As for the tape up there, what tape is this?
Nobody ever called the anty piracy hotline
Now this is some good content + anti-piracy screen, And that's kind of calming
I used see that all the time when I had a tape of a charlie brown special, it would turn static for almost 10 minutes but it would play after, it always spooked me lol
Posting this publicly is,like spray painting, "VADALISM IS ILLEGAL" on the side of a mall. I absolutely love it.
Also nostagia.
Can confirm, this is 100% genuine. And yes, in terms of YT it is very much lost media.
So glad that cathode ray tubes and video cassettes are a thing of the past. Now we have flat screens and videos on demand/downloadable.
I actually remember having a cassette like that. It was a promotional copy for super cop with Jackie Chan. It had that message and as well as subtitles on the bottom saying the same message over and over again every now and then
Where did you get this?
I wanna know what film you got the message from so I can tell VHS Opening video mamers to find it and put the opening on RUclips.
Finally a real anti piracy screen
I used to shop at the one dollar bookstore in Burbank. They had a bunch of screener VHS tapes that industry people had discarded. I bought a Chinese DVD of National Treasure 2 from that store in 2009.
These are basically the copies sent out to all the Academy members before the Oscars back in the day.
How is this lost media if you could easily access it and record it?
Why are people scared of words moving across a screen?
The silence, though tbh I'm not scared. Just a little, but still.
i feel it has to do with more of what the words say, people thinking they really fucked up after seeing the text say this stuff is a crime, along with the abrupt silence and static that follows along with it
it's the silence that's scary. makes you expect a screamer.
I remember this as being a set of static cards on all of my Paramount VHS tapes I had decades ago. I don't think I've seen this scrolling version.
I started humming the music before it played. Instant nostalgia