Okay we all know that movies are pirated world wide, it is not a shocker. But when the movie companies actually participate in the trade then one has to wonder.
Case in point.... the movie the A-Team.
Release date June 3rd to 11th in the US.
Release date in Spain and UK .. July 30th.
(above from IMDB)
Now the funny part is..... the DVD version was released in Russia (region 5) 2 weeks ago. How do I know this? Because it was out on the pirate dvd release sites a few hours after. So it is possible to get the movie online from pirates before it is released in the UK.
While taking down these movies is considered as piracy and stealing (in most countries),
You can always buy a region free DVD player. I know people who have those, mostly because they're huge anime fans and some stuff they can only get from Japan.
Okay we all know that movies are pirated world wide, it is not a shocker. But when the movie companies actually participate in the trade then one has to wonder.
Case in point.... the movie the A-Team.
Release date June 3rd to 11th in the US.
Release date in Spain and UK .. July 30th.
(above from IMDB)
Now the funny part is..... the DVD version was released in Russia (region 5) 2 weeks ago. How do I know this? Because it was out on the pirate dvd release sites a few hours after. So it is possible to get the movie online from pirates before it is released in the UK....
Now this is an extreme example, as usually movies do manage to get into cinemas in the biggest markets before they are released on DVD in Russia, but the fact remains, that the biggest pirate country on the planet is... you got it.. Russia. So why on earth do movie companies release their movies on DVD first in Russia, often weeks before they are even released in the US?
While taking down these movies is considered as piracy and stealing (in most countries), one has to ask the question.. if the movie companies are not participating in the piracy by releasing their movies first in markets that do most of the online piracy (and hacking), before they are released in the biggest markets? Is it not like leaving your door open and letting the thief into the house? Your insurance company would laugh at you when you asked for compensation... and the police would laugh also.
I've read a story before about movie production studios purposefully releasing their works on torrent sites and the like to gauge movie goer turn out.
DVD regions are moronic, just another way to scam people out of money, using the law.
They do, but it is too easy to spot them, as they often start with 40k+ seeders
But it is stuff like this case and many many others, that mean I have very very little sympathy when the rights holders come crying over people taking their product for free.
Totally agree, it falls into the reasoning of "you reap what you sow."
The justification is that purchasing a DVD doesnt mean you purchased the right to copy said DVD and if you dont like it, dont buy the DVDIt's ILLEGAL to make an otherwise legal home personal use copy for yourself of DVDs you legally own.
The justification is that purchasing a DVD doesnt mean you purchased the right to copy said DVD and if you dont like it, dont buy the DVD
Which, to me, seems absolutely idiotic. Such prohibitions have never been levied on any other consumer product...ever.
I think we need to enact laws similar to what Germany and several other EU countries have; purchasing software automatically guarantees the purchaser to make copies for personal use.
This sort of legal limbo is an ideal situation for groups like the RIAA and MPAA because it prevents anyone skirting the rules because no one is quite sure what the rules are.
Sun Tzu would have been proud.
Now the question is if you buy a legal copy, download a copy without encryption in which you never violated and then burn the digital copy to DVD, is that a violation of the DMCA? You've made a personal fair use copy of an item you legally own without bypassing encryption.
Except you have to obtain an unauthorized copy to do that, which is illegal for different reasons.
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