There are vultures everywhere...

Several Warner Brothers DVDs, lately, have had an anti-piracy commercial as the first thing played when you put the disc in the machine. The commercial uses clips from Casablanca, and concocts a story about how Rick Blaine is mad at Ilsa Lund for illegally copying movies.

As owners of the movie, Casablanca, Warner Bros. certainly are legally entitled to use it in this way. But I'm fascinated by how much of a violation their commercial feels to me. So much so, that I become more sympathetic to movie piracy, not less.