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The anti-piracy advert currently showing at UK cinemas offends my deeply pedantic spirit. Don't get me wrong - I entirely agree with the message - but it doesn't make any sense to say that, on a pirated DVD, your view will be obscured by someone getting up to go to the toilet, as if that couldn't possibly happen in the cinema itself. Unless there are enforcers out there, who make it their business specifically to get in the way of people with camcorders, this is a silly sales pitch. A bad argument leads to an ineffectual impact and so this advert could simply end up damaging the cause that it purports to support.