FACT goes all 1984

The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) have moved from their vaguely hilarious "piracy funds Al Qaeda" pre-cinema adverts to something a lot more sinister. In it you, the customer have to sit through about 1-2 minutes of a really objectionable advert. The advert consists of a series of statements. Each statement arrives within a giant red square (accompanied to suitably stark clanging noises) being dropped from above, to be replaced by another one, and another one, and so on. They read something like this (one per annoying loud red square)

• Any recording of Film using any device is outlawed yada yada yada..
• Anyone caught doing this will be drawn to the attention of staff.
• You will be thrown out of the cinema.
• You will be barred for life from this cinema and possibly others.
• You will possibly face prosecution.
• Where you can face significant fines
• Or a prison sentence.
• Ignorance is not a defence.
  
• Dissenters will be shipped off to work-camps.
  

OK I lied about the last one.
So there you sit for a couple of minutes while you are being "re-educated" in a style which makes Nazi-era propaganda seem subtle. FACT have a right to lobby and popularize their cause. They do not have a right to treat cinema-goers as potential criminals or subject them to such crass abuse.