corners and at flea markets?
2006-09-20 07:53:02 · 12 answers · asked by Jacks036 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
If they arrested every flea market seller, it wouldn't do much good. The people who are at the booths selling, usually aren't the people who are behind the whole thing. They are just employees and get paid to sit there and sell DVD's. If they got arrested, another person would take their place in another flea market somewhere else the week after. They can ticket you on a corner, and take all your stock, but it doesn't make much of a difference when they can re-burn all the stock and send some else out a week later. The money they make far outweighs the cost of a few arrests.
Plus like others mentioned. The man power it would take to bust every seller would be to much and would leave a lot of REAL dangerous criminal activity unchecked.
Besides, Movie companies still make hundreds of millions of dollars on the films. Then they make Millions more on the videos, and millions more on advertising deals with product companies. And millions more when they sell the rights to TV and millions and millions ....etc. They aren't losing money like they want you to believe. They just aren't making every single penny they could be...and in todays money driven society that's all that seems to matter...
2006-09-20 08:18:54 · answer #1 · answered by Cerebrus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not illegal to sell DVD's unless they are bootlegged. You first have to prove that what someone is selling is bootlegged before you can arrest them, so just because you see people selling them doesn't mean that anyone is allowing illegal activity.
2006-09-20 07:55:50 · answer #2 · answered by kmcpmgoodson 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They will get to them. In Southern California were I lived, downtown area called THE ALLEY where you can buy clothes cheap the Police just raided a few vendors for bootleg movies and cd's.
2006-09-20 10:21:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. That's what bootleg means. Like bootleg liquor which is also illegal.
2016-03-26 23:14:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't worth the police power to try and convict everyone doing small time crimes like that. A conviction over something like that would take too much time tying up the courts and too much money. It's the same as music downloading. They only go after people who do thousands and thousands because chasing the little guys is too hard.
2006-09-20 07:56:50 · answer #5 · answered by benvanzile 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they don't let them there are just so many people selling hooky dvd's that it seems they never get caught. best thing is just boycott them. you can pick cd's / dvd's up from amazon or play.com cheap as chips. there really is no need to but bootleg...unless its porn!!!( joke)
2006-09-20 07:56:46 · answer #6 · answered by Ivan R Don 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They dont allow them to do this, they just do it. If cops pass they move all their stuff and hide it, when they leave they take it out again, I have seen this.
2006-09-20 07:56:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They don't.. Those people are very alert and you can actually watch them almost seem to vanish into thin air whenever a cop strolls by....
2006-09-20 07:55:26 · answer #8 · answered by Andy FF1,2,CrTr,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's still illegal, and they are breaking the law.
2006-09-20 07:54:40 · answer #9 · answered by Nick H 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thats illegal too. they just haven't been caught.
2006-09-20 08:00:03 · answer #10 · answered by thunder2sys 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋