Is the military-entertainment complex ready to get serious about the global War on Piratism? If so, they’d better be reading this blog, or at least making their interns read it. We commanded you to Show us your ideas for a new anti-piracy police force, and like good little soldiers, that’s exactly what you did. Now maybe the RIAA and MPAA will see how committed we are to the struggle, and conclude that there’s no need to snoop around on the hard drives of such fine, upstanding citizens. We’ll all sleep better when these visions become reality, especially if we are members of Metallica:

First Prize – $100
tgentry – Won’t Someone Please Think of The Children?
Like the atom but less radioactive, children can be a force for great good or great evil in the anti-piracy crusade. Click the first one for hot zoom action.

Second Prize – $50
wonderstew – Jackbooted Thugs For Intellectual Property Rights
We love a thug in uniform. No, this contest has no vertical size limit.

Third Prize – $20
KMA2 – A Little Snip’ll Do Ya
First offense, they cut your cables. Second offense, they get a rope. Click it to big it.

Honorable Mention

majit – False Stories of the Highway Patrol
Do they get to wear those cool Smokey Bear-style hats, too?

Josephus – Universal Serial Blaster
Guns
don’t tattle on file-sharers; people tattle on file-sharers. Not the
most fun people to hang out with, either. Check it out – you click the
picture and it gets bigger! It’s magic!

no1 – Purple Pirate Eater
Somewhere in a lab deep underground, MPAA and RIAA scientists are trying to engineer this very creature.

Escher0 – Hexed Code
Whoops! Those wacky Kopyright Kops can’t help but give away “secret” information!

SailorSpoon – This Bay Is Closed
You have only one option…

mwiseman – Nyet!
Come on, Russia doesn’t have a piracy problem, does it?

twallis – Angry, Armed Ushers
Usher and seats not to scale. We hope.

Champions’ Championship Champion
faithcoaching – I Learned It By Watching You
We laughed. Then we said “it’s a little off-topic.” Then we laughed again.

No picture for the Monkey Prize this time around, because we’re awarding it to lordofthenerds.
His bright idea was to swipe an image from somewhere else, remove the
watermark, and submit it as his own, thus committing a bonafide act of
- here it comes – intellectual piracy! If he meant it as a postmodern
performance-art meta-commentary on our theme, brilliant. But we suspect
it wasn’t quite that thought out. And when we do actually get around to
sending out Monkey Prizes, he won’t be getting one. Maybe you can steal
one, picture thief!

Money winners, please email your Paypal info to jtoon@woot.com. Monkey Prize winner, don’t bother this week. Honorable Mentioneers may use coupon code HONMEN-FS
for free shipping on a future order. Until next time, if anybody’s got
an advance copy of the upcoming Art Brut album, we’d love to, uh,
“borrow” it…