Contact the dude and tell him you know it is a pirated copy and you want your
money back (do not even mention returning the merchandise) If he doesn't then
report as needed to both eBay and whoever else will listen.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew P. Smith
To: CF-Community
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 4:37 PM
Subject: slight moral dilema...
So, let's say that I had been looking all over town, amazon, etc etc for
a certain dvd and no one has it. I finally turn to ebay and find a nice
little listing that links to the guys site, which has a catalog of
50-100 dvds, including the one I've been looking for. It's actually an
import, and a variation of the film I did not know was out there. So, I
gladly spend my $36 and get the dvd in the mail a few days later.
Filled with excitement, I try to plunk it into my trusty gateway
destination.
No disc error. Hmm, this is like when I ripped my own dvd to a dvd-rw
just a couple days ago. I pull out the disc, and low and behold, the
inside of the two discs both have "verbatim dvd-r 4x". A closer look at
the disc label, dvd case label and such shows a definite home grown(but
very well done) copy..
O-o
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all about creative business ventures, but,
ummmm, yeah, you get me.
So, I can:
1. politely ask for a refund, or at the very least the original.
2. blackmail my homeboy Mr. Rip A. Lot and get his entire catalog
sent here for, oh, say, $0.01 a disc. :-)
3. call up mpaa and the fbi or whoever is in charge of
infringement; maybe a reward? Ebay as well; I'm sure the guy would get
pulled in an instant.
Anyone know the penalties for the guilty party per count of illegal
copying? What is the reward for the rat that turns them in, either
before or contingent upon conviction?
Also, if it is per count, should I just buy everything they have for
sale to up the evidence and per-count numbers?
I mean, I'm not going to call the cops on a friend burning a cd or dvd
once in a while (an entirely different discussion), but this is full-on
commercial pirating.
The PO box it was sent from is in the states, so he/she could be
prosecuted, I would think. How hard is it for a government agency to
walk back from the po box to the actuall person. I would think it
requires at least some kind of ID, though I would invest in a good fake
it I were to attempt this.
What would you do?
And, really, I'm just pissed I gave the guy $36 for, what, $3 worth of
investment on his/her part. :-)
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