Knock off DVD`s

18 Aug 2007

Quote by flower411
I`m assuming that everybody has seen the advert about not buying "Knock off`s"..
I go to boot fairs at the weekends and there is one in particular where a very well organised group of people sell illegal DVD`s. There are usually between 10 and 15 of them putting out their wares on blankets on the ground in any space that presents itself..
The organisers keep trying to move them but they just wait until they go away and start selling again !!
I was chatting to some regular booters about it and their attitude was " Everybody`s got to make a living "....I found this a bit surprising, but it`s obvious that these people could not continue without the constant support of a large number of customers.
Trading standards and the police have visited and made arrests and confiscated large amounts of goods, but they just keep coming back !!
The whole business must be worth a fortune...
So the question is ...Is it OK to buy illegal DVD`s ??
Personally, I think legal DVD`s are overpriced but I still don`t feel tempted to break the law ..

i'd rather buy a genuine DVD,not because of the price,but because knock off dvd's are of such fucking poor quality,that alone is crimimal!...but i always wait until the DVD's i want are on offer such as 3 for

18 Aug 2007

I've seen loads that are great quality, In fact if you copy from the retail source the quality is the exact same as it would be if you bought it from the shop, that goes for console games as well, a direct copy is as good as the source. If its just out at the flicks then you know what your gonna get! someone with a camcorder at the pics. It doesn't help that most studios release films 6 months earlier in the us than they do here so that only helps to encourage it, and to add to that nearly every pc now comes with a dvd recorder as standard, and blank dvds are only 10p each, so you can copy your 3 films you got for £20 then take them back and exchange for another 3 biggrin

As for the legalities Flower, then its not illegal to buy them it's also not illegal to make a copy of one you own for personal use, for example keep the original in a safe place and let the kids ruin the copy rather than the original. but it certainly is illegal to sell them if that makes sense. And most of the stuff is just confiscated without charges being brought to these sellers until they get caught multiple times and a lot use kids to get by this.
Its certainly not new, we all used to copy records to tape, then it was tape to tape, they also used to sell these at stalls, its just moved on a bit from then.

19 Aug 2007

i have bought copied dvd's in the past but just having spent over 3 grand on a home cinema set up gonna wait till they are released here properly and buy the original or just had a thought could buy a region free dvd and buy them from usa if there sold there 6 months b4 here. tut she'll kill

19 Aug 2007

i have bought copies before i also have borrowed disks from friends and copied them so i have a copy myself (specially with the rediculous prices of ps games etc)
as said i dont think it is illegal to buy them and if the costs of the real thing was brought down by a fair bit then maybe it wouldnt happen so much
unless you are selling u aint doing anything to bad
bolt

19 Aug 2007

I dont know if it is the same all over the country but the majority of people that sell them in my local area are working for criminal gangs. These people are forced to sell these dvds. They also have been caught lately with child porn mad

stuffed into one of their many pockets on the ridiculous large coats that they wear to hide them all. Thats the main reason that I wont buy any type of dvd off of them.
Louise