I started to add this little beauty to the Dmusic site--then said--"Nah. Everyone knows we are respectors of copyrights around here." DO NOT MISS THIS ADBUSTERS MASTERPIECE! Click here now.

Brian Flemming’s weblog
http://www.slumdance.com/blogs/brian_flemming/archives/000610.html#more

This link crashed my machine. Crashed it hard.

Tom this is awsome. I remember that commercial well. the way it's tied together really works. this should be made avaliable for download so it can sweep the net like wildfire.

Wow. Great video.

Hmm... worked fine for me. I found the clips before and after style interesting. Personally I have not seen the entire commercial(the pepsi-iTunes one) and wasn't aware that the young girl said she was prosecuted, which she wasn't.

Some pretty demented links off that site. Bill Gates is dead? What the hell is this? I'll watch the movie later on

I'm not all that impressed. I'm down with taking issue over the 'prosecution' wording, but it's over-dramatic. He could have made one about the government, or the RIAA in general, or any number of things. Just a pepsi commercial. There's better examples of '1984' in a lot of other commercials. I realize it's one of few RIAA lawsuit-related commercials. Maybe tv shouldn't have been a focus of the video then. Oh well, just my opinion.

Uh--I'm trying to think of another ad which is a better example of 1984.

thought it was good

Wow! What a powerful ad!

Imagine if this aired during the Super Bowl the way the original 1984-themed ad did? The RIAA, Pepsi and Apple would be seriously screwed!

Only if there was a way to air this on national TV.... I wonder if Sherman has seen this?

It'd be nice if they could put this on national tv. I didn't say I didn't like it, I just said it's over dramatic and that there isn't many commercials to choose from, so maybe using the 1984 angle for a commercial wasn't the greatest idea.

But yes, I'd pay out of my pocket to see this played on a national television during during a show with high ratings.

quicktime hates me..... make this downloadable!

Wait, is this supposed to mean I can't like The Clash anymore?

Tomsong - they had to use this ad because it was proving Apple to be hypocrites

SonofAres, I sent you a note.

I do believe Green Day did a cover, which is featured on the commercial. And like whoever you want... but if its RIAA boycott it! haha

Hello All,
Whats more interesting to me about the commercials is not there similarity, but the BLATANT LIES in just the Pepsi commercial.
Last time i checked on riaa.com at one of there new articles which states that Ms. Hemming of Kazaa is not telling the truth, the commercial and its lies paint me a different story of the RIAA. They blatantly show the RIAA is GUILTY of lies themselves.
Also the play on words they did with that girl on the computer, what a joke, and with that music in the backround. The RIAA has enough lies in it, too bad there never look within themselves.

Continue the boycott, i haven't bought a cd for a few months, and only one cd in the last couple years.

I am still looking forward to the slow downsizing of the RIAA or the major five record companies.
This year they will loose 3 billion dollars of control. Lets all cheer!


Also, by 2010, if i have my numbers right, the RIAA will shrink to about a 10 billion dollar organization if they loose 3 billion a year. Food for thought.

Also, i guess they are down to 4 major record labels, or is it five, or does it matter?

"I fought the law" by Dead Kennedys is a much better version =) And now it can be played theraputically when feelings of spite arise.

Maybe I should be in a commercial sitting at my computer with that song playing in the background. Check it out if you get the chance.. hopefully you can handle the guy's voice.

Awesome statement. And I am an Apple user. I cannot understand how or why Steve Jobs would stoop to such sheer propaganda with the Pepsi commerical and the RIAA.

You can download this QuickTime movie easily if you have QuickTime Pro - either purchase a key from Apple, or get a key elsewhere.

I enjoyed that thoroughly and also wish that I could find that for download. I'd make sure to send it to ever single one of my friends and anyone else I could get a hold of. Only two things really annoy me, Religion, and RIAA. Both in the same boat too me.

This needs aired on national tv.

Shmoo, of Electric Gypsy
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heh... I have been a coca cola drinker all my life. My critique of the video is this: More people need to see this. POSITIVE propaganda. Like I have always said: "Most people (general population) are sheep and want the easy way, want things done for them." So dangerous!

Nice movie. Though I tend to agree with that the protest against the "prosecution" wording being too harsh. It clearly shoudl have been "persecuted".

I would rather a wording like "wrongfully accused" myself.

Shmoo

Great video! Of course I had to install Quicktime to the computer. Ugh

I know where you can get the Quicktime movie as well as converted it to .avi. Approx. 20 mb each. Someone who has the storage and wants to host it, shoot me a private note. Or if you need a quicktime key number.

Think different. diffferentthink (mostlikely translation into newspeak if there where to be such a word, otherwise it would go to doublethink) would mean to think different and to conform to the ideas presented to you... so realy Apple wan't you to conform to the ideas of the government and appla, and not your own individula ideas. thoes evil bastards.

Had to get Quick Time for Mozilla Fire Fox .8 i hate A@@hole Quick Time

i refuse to use quicktime or real player so this is out

i cant believe Real gets to sue microsoft cuz they say if WMP wasnt bundled with windows they'd actually have users.

my ass, real player is just garbage thats why you have no users

Fantastic video. Great criticism.

"I fought the law" by Dead Kennedys is a much better version =)

oh yeah, i know. Anything the Dead Kennedys touch is gold. lol

Am I the only one who, ironically enough, got a pop-up advertising iTunes while watching the video once?

Those who don't want to install actual QuickTime on their box, try Quicktime Alternative:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm

Works like a voodoo charm. )

Damn, the added < br > ruins the link. When you're redirected to the main site, look at the Main Menu on the left - QuickTime Alternative is listed under "software".

Great video BTW.

Hey, this is Brian Flemming, the guy who made the video. Thanks a lot for the kind comments. I added a direct download link in response to a comment here. Also, feel free to copy it, convert it, edit it, whatever. I don't own the Apple or Pepsi material, of course, so I can't give any permissions there. But, speaking for myself, I don't mind any copying and distributing of the video. Sorry about the QuickTime exclusivity--I don't have the software to create Real or WiMP.

Good video.

Thanks Brian very cool... I think the discussion here over Quicktime is odd. Certainly I hate Real Player. What does that leave you people--? Microsoft Media Player? Are you kidding me? That crap is not allowed on my machine, and never has been. To each his own.

I agree that offensive advertising desrves an immediate appropriation of materials and twisted logic. Bravo.

What's with all the comments over there - people saying that they don't get it, what's the point, etc? Or is it just Cary Sue posting under different names? The concept of actual events being rewritten, revised and spun for profit is not so difficult to grasp.

Much ado about very, very little.

What's the subliminal message here? Well, it's likely whatever you wish it to be. The sad truth is, the only real goal for the makers of the "real" commerical was to sell things. Anyone who doesn't think that's the case needs to get their tin foil hat readjusted.

I thought it was rather ironic that Brian chose quicktime. I also always enjoy hearing children whine about how they hate hate quicktime then mewl for something windows based. Kewl kids eh?

There's a much bigger issuse here, funny, no one brought it up. I suppose that the legal ability to buy and download files upsets some of you as well. No one to blame there except for the RIAA and your parents. Grow up kids. The issue is how to make the file transfer workable AND fair from a legal standpoint not just to whine about the "good ol' days" of napster and whatnot.

signed, the guy with 180 gigs of ripped music he legally owns (because he ripped it himself).

My computer did just fine with it.

I think this is real good, and I am glad you posted it.

For trivia, the film "Pirates of Silicon Valley" opens with scenes involving the filming of the Apple 1984 commercial...Noah Wyle playing Steve Jobs.