I hate bootleg movies. I'm very vocal about and as a result people always try to give me bootleg dvd's or when I'm at their homes for a visit after dinner or drinks they put one on television. It's annoying. It's like offering someone a drink after they tell you they don't drink. I hate bootleg movies. The quality is bad and it's destroying the movie industry and much of the money from bootleg go to fund terrorist activities in the middle east. Do you care? Why not?
2007-04-07 09:08:12 · 7 answers · asked by Luch d 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Why is it so easy to buy them? That FBI warning is a joke! Why isn't someone doing more to stop the illegal traffic of Bootleg DVD's?
2007-04-07 09:13:22 · update #1
I don't care about the quality. They are illegal and immoral and I won't buy one. That is robbing from the licensed owner.
2007-04-07 09:11:29 · answer #1 · answered by Kevin C 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I must be too honest or stupid. I pay Direct TV to beam movies to my satellite dish. So I don't buy bootleg DVD's.
I don't know if terrorists are getting rich bootlegging them, but if the quality is so bad, who would want to do business with them.
I mean, wouldn't you rather have excellent quality bootleg videos instead of the Al Qaida brand bootlegs which are scratchy and full of errors and such?
On the other hand, it would seem even smarter to just go down to your local Blockbuster and buy used DVD's for 5 bucks apiece. Which is something I do. If you don't mind the trailer at the beginning, you get a nice legal movie and you can trade it in later if you hate it.
2007-04-07 09:33:12 · answer #2 · answered by krollohare2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know where you get that they support terrorists, that might just be a popular misconception. I don't really like the bootleg movies, it isn't a moral issue as hollywood makes plenty off me, and they overemphasize its impact. It has more to do that they are garbage as far as quality. If I go somewhere and someone is watching one I don't not watch it, but I doubt I would ever make an effort to watch one.
2007-04-07 09:20:21 · answer #3 · answered by Brian O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I don't buy bootleg movies. They're illegal because you're basically stealing from everyone that worked hard to make the movie. I don't feel guilty because I don't buy bootleg movies.
2007-04-07 09:16:13 · answer #4 · answered by ♥☺ bratiskim∞! ☺♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't buy them. I rent the real ones from my great city library. I don't need to own 99 percent of movies I see. I watch them twice at the most.
If it was legal it would be like saying, Go ahead. Steal. The government says it's okay.
Should you copy books? Should you download music for free without the "express written consent" blah blah blah of the musician(s)?
If you wrote a movie, and spent half your life fighting to get it made, would you care if, say, half of the movies bought don't give you a penny in royalties?
I still tape The Simpsons. No one's perfect.
2007-04-07 09:57:42 · answer #5 · answered by albob3000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't care - i don't buy them but if someone has a really good copy of a movie that i won't go to the movies to see anyway, i'll watch it.
$10-11 for a ticket plus exorbitant snack costs and add in obnoxious people, cell phones going off, etc makes the movie going experience like going to the dentist.
The movie industry seems to make enough money even with all them bootlegging.
2007-04-07 09:14:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Come on it is natural for people to watch pirated videos and tv shows when there is not punishment for doing so. Look at youtube. Only the most idiotic would not take advantage of them. But that doesn't make them right. Copyright infringment reduces the incentive to produce the material in the future. It should remain illegal but should be better enforced. If someone left a really nice car outside your house and you could steal it without an consequences (except for a dirty conscience) 100% of rational people would do it. That doesn't make it right though.
2007-04-07 09:20:16 · answer #7 · answered by gordongecko 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In this era of globalization, with democratized technology and information and the rapid increase of high powered internet services, the era of RIAA and MPAA domination of the media markets has come to an end.
Organizations such as this, responsible for the promotion and packaging of movies, have been rendered obsolete by the ability of individuals to promote their movies to millions of people online with no packaging due to electronic transmission for pennies. It has become easier and less costly to download a movie online (both for the downloader and the movie sales store) than it is to spend the time and gas money to drive to the store, hand some high school student cashier money, and drive back home to enjoy a movie printed on 1 cent worth of plastic at a resolution lower than what can be attained with a digital rip of a high definition release of the product, packaged in 3 cents worth of either paper or plastic that was sold for three times the cost of a similar movie created on a tape that costs dollars to create (presuming you are buying a DVD, don't even get me started on HD DVDs and Blu Ray - worthless pieces of junk).
In ten years, we will not be having this discussion. There will be no RIAA or MPAA monopoly, and movies will be sold on an entirely free market, devoid of obsolete packaging and promotions, with competition from movie producers selling their products at fair market value (the cost of a movie, factoring in production costs, should be about $2-5 each, depending on the movie).
I would gladly spend $5 for a movie in the highest resolution, playable on any system- I'd even buy bad ones for that.
2007-04-07 09:31:10 · answer #8 · answered by darkvelvetrain 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋