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I live in Egypt, many of you already know about that, I'm just telling the ones who don't know to understand the problem. Now the thing is yeterday when I was watching T.V, I saw a commercial about an air conditioner, the actors were supposed to be in a space ship, one of them was eating chocolate and singing, and I noticed that the background music was the beggining of the Metal Gear Solid 2:Sons Of Liberty theme, so suddenly a problem happened, then the guy who was eating all of a sudden took a remote for the A.C and used it to solve the problem, and here comes ome of the most stupid things I have ever seen, the background music continued as the guy kept using the A.C and they were clearly using it without permission from Konami, and they clearly took the advantage that almost nobody here knows about the game, and they were clearly using it for merchandise, I waited till the end, and they didn't mention anything about the copyrights, offcourse Konami don't watch Egyptian T.V, so they couldn't have known about it, so what I want to do is tell them, so can anyone tell me what should I do ?

»§ilver §hadøw« wrote:
> Maybe they got permission from Harry Gregson-Williams, although I
> doubt it.
>
> Just leave it, it's not exactly a big deal now, is it?
They didn't. I am sure. No copyrights were mentioned.

max mad nutter wrote:
> what is
> the point
The point is that I am a hardcore fan of mgs, and I don't accept using it like this.

Cusack wrote:
> They didn't. I am sure. No copyrights were mentioned.

Copyrights are rarely mentioned on adverts as the company has no need to prove to the public that they are licensed to use such stuff.

Seriously, let it go. You won't get any reward for snitching.

cheese

»§ilver §hadøw« wrote:
> Cusack wrote:
> They didn't. I am sure. No copyrights were mentioned.
>
> Copyrights are rarely mentioned on adverts as the company has no need
> to prove to the public that they are licensed to use such stuff.
>
> Seriously, let it go. You won't get any reward for snitching.
I am not waiting for a reward, if I wanted a reward, I could've done many things before, sometimes they publish advertisements of pirate copies of games in some kids magazines, nobody notices, I could have received a reward for reporting both the magazine and the advertiser, but I didn't because pirate copies only harm game developers, not the games, the games can only become more popular. also I've seen previous rip offs from the mgs1 OST on another channel, but they only played it in the beggining of the news with the word "Nile TV" showing, and that's ok, since they weren't advertising anything. The point is that the AC commercial subotages the game infront of the public, the commercial was one of the most stupid things I've ever seen, they are just using it to attract the people to watch the commercial, so that people would think it's a LOVELY product with SUCH WONDERFUL FEATURES, the guy just seems like a fu**ing g*y when he holds the AC controller and says " Plasma filter-ready/double speed fan/READY/timer-ready/sleep/ready.." while playing the great METAL GEAR SOLID 2.I hate that.

Parr wrote:
> cheese

Of Course!

Hmmmm.

Cusack wrote:
> g*y

Is 'gay' swearing now?

It's not swearing, he actually seems to be one.

Well, this is obviously a very serious thing we're dealing with here. I don't know how others could be laughing at you Cusack, really. After all, this is certainly no laughing matter.

There could be serious consequences if you don't do something about this, what I suggest you do is head for the Konami website and use the 'contact us' link (I'm assuming there is one) to e-mail them and tell them about this DISGUSTING occurence. It's the only way.

How anyone could disgrace MGS2 in this way is beyond me. It is an abomination that this has been allowed to happen.

Glad to be of assistance.
Your man,
Memo.