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clone (banned)
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Re: Who ever said criminals were smart?

Just like knockoff "RoIex" watches, everyone buying the DVDs knows they are counterfeit. Anyone who would actually be purchasing a ticket to a theater, or a real BluRay or DVD isn't going to be fooled by some shaky handycam copy of the film.

The market for the two products are completely different. When you buy a "RoIex" you don't do it at a Rolex dealer. You get it from local swap meet/flea market. You know what you're getting. Just like if you walk into an actual Rolex dealer, you know what you're getting.

If this guy were selling knockoff DVD's/BluRays in counterfeit "original" packaging through normal distribution channels to legitimate resellers, then yes, throw the book at him. That's what copyright is designed to prevent...someone passing off your work as an original when they aren't authorized to do so.

This is the publishing equivalent of someone taking a whole book to the Xerox machine and running off the pages one by one then selling it to his buddy. It shouldn't be allowed, but it also doesn't warrant jailtime. Only a corporatist/fascist authoritarian would conflate the two situations. I think we know where you fall on the spectrum.

NYDude25
join:2007-08-23
Massapequa, NY

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You've got to make examples of people so word gets out that doing this has consequences.
clone (banned)
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Portage, IN

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Nothing like the good old-fashioned iron fist of fascism to keep people in line, right?

I mean think about it, the more people we can get into the for-profit prisons the more security guard jobs we can create so people will have jobs to be able to afford go to the movie theatre!

NYDude25
join:2007-08-23
Massapequa, NY

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Who makes money off of a prison? The corrections officers in the prisons cost the taxpayers money. The state isn't making a profit from prisoners, and NYC spends a fortune on Rikers Island.

dynomutt
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Rikers Island is a holding pen.
Read the wiki page.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ri ··· s_Island
The prison industrial complex consists of private prisons that make substantial amounts of money from government requirements that one argues gets funneled back in various illicit ways to judges and politicians. Do some searches and learn something.

NYDude25
join:2007-08-23
Massapequa, NY

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Well, I guess this isn't an issue that NY'ers know about because NY doesn't allow any "private" prisons. Pity on those states that do, but why would their citizens have allowed such a thing?
And you can read the wiki page about it here:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr ··· versight