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“You Wouldn't Steal a Car“ is the first sentence of a public service announcement which is part of the 2000s anti copyright infringement campaign “Piracy. It's a crime.“ It was created by the Federation Against Copyright Theft and the Motion Picture Association in cooperation with the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore in July 2004,[1][2] and appeared on many commercial DVDs internationally and in the States sold from 2004 up until 2007, as either an unskippable or skippable clip before a film is shown. Although being produced by the MPA, the only film companies in the United States that included this PSA on their DVDs were Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and select films released by Buena Vista Pictures. It shows a man committing theft of various objects, and compares these crimes with the unauthorized duplication and distribution of copyrighted materials, such as films.[3][4] Despite claims of the music for the advert having been used with
