DVD rental stores copyright debacle

Stuff the real criminals .... let's get the video stores!!! Stupid corporate greed if you ask me.
 
Same old rubbish. Protect the monopolies at all cost. You can buy the releases online from overseas, but you have to wait for months for the local idiots to get their act together. No wonder we've got piracy problems.
 
adcadc said:
Same old rubbish. Protect the monopolies at all cost. You can buy the releases online from overseas, but you have to wait for months for the local idiots to get their act together. No wonder we've got piracy problems.
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You can import the DVD yourself from overseas if you want. That is always legal as it's considered a local purchase (the purchase is made in the States)
even though you and your PC are in SA.

As for protecting monopolies, maybe, but you dp have a choice,
either DON'T BUY or WATCH these films (they're nearly all rubbish anyway)
OR import them yourself. Mr Video and al were simply cutting corners,
as in Nu Metro pays for the newspaper, bus stop and TV ads for movies,
while MrVideo buys personal copies of movies and rents them out. Nu Metro
should have a ROI surely.
 
I can either rent it or download it. Who cares?
 
Syndyre said:
This really shouldn't be illegal, all it does is protect a monopoly.
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You got any idea how many monopolies there are out there... and we get hit with a ruler each time we try to get around them...
 
wizdumb said:
lol....backing up, incase something happens to the video store :D
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That's a good way of putting it. Tell the cops when they pitch up at your place.... "No sir, I was asked to have an off-site backup of the video shop around the corner..."
 
alf101 said:
My Mom has a few "illegal" rentals in her video shop.
Wonder how much I can get for turning her in.
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Don't turn her in to the cops as she's not comitting a crime.
She's breaching copyright agreements which means she can
be sued by our FPB/NuMetro/SK. It would be a civil case.

However if the movies she has are not on NM/SK catalogue
then they have no legal right to sue neither would they waste
their money to protect some other company's business. :)
 
Syndyre said:
This really shouldn't be illegal, all it does is protect a monopoly.
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Its not illegal. It merely breaches the LICENCING agreement, it's a civil
suit she would face (IF those DVDs come off the NM/SK catalog) - I'm
repeating myself here but a copyright holder has to SUE for
there to be any action taken, if the DVDs belong to some
other company - NM/SK won't bother - anyhow they won't
go checking if she has permission from say JANUS FILMS
CO (USA) to release their Criterion Collection films in
SA (as an example).
 
Syndyre said:
Ok I thought she was breaching the copyright act.
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I'm not sure, I think it's breaching the distribution agreement those PARTICULAR COMPANIES have with SK or NM or whoever it was that sued locally. If she's got copies of say ANIME titles from ADV - SK/NM or no-one
else has any right to pursue her for having them (example given). AFAIK ADV has not licenced anything to SK/NM. Say she has copies of ummm
the Russian TV production of Master and Margaret TV - its the same thing.

Unless SA's legal system is particularly RETARDED, that's the way it works
in the US and the rest of the world (except in areas where consumer laws supersede these licencing agreements - eg EU).
 
PeterCH said:
I'm not sure, I think it's breaching the distribution agreement those PARTICULAR COMPANIES have with SK or NM or whoever it was that sued locally. If she's got copies of say ANIME titles from ADV - SK/NM or no-one
else has any right to pursue her for having them (example given). AFAIK ADV has not licenced anything to SK/NM. Say she has copies of ummm
the Russian TV production of Master and Margaret TV - its the same thing.

Unless SA's legal system is particularly RETARDED, that's the way it works
in the US and the rest of the world (except in areas where consumer laws supersede these licencing agreements - eg EU).
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That would make more sense, its not as if its a pirated copy, its just that its breaching their exclusivity agreement for SA.
 
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