Its simple just for the sake and purpose of putting aside the legal mumbo
jumbo
You the consumer purchase a VHS tape, CD or DVD disk from a local
video/music store. You own the physical content and have the right of
ownership of said physical media (the VHS tape, CD or DVD).
The studio still retains the ownership of the licensed media content
(prerecorded video and or music). The studio has the right of ownership
because its they who created it, took a lot of time, money, people,
producers to create and license the the material. Actor salries, attorney
fees, distribution costs, advertising, marketing, promotion all have to be
paid in which most people tend to forget when the illegaly copy multimedia.
If you look on the back cover of every CD, DVD jewelcase you'll see the
studio's trademark and year of copyright.
Pirating multimedia material insults the people who legally created and
licensed the material because the act of pirating itself devalues their
works. People who think that they can get away with it by not paying the
full price of the product actually think in the misguided belief that the
people who created the video or music are greedy or stingy when in reality
they only get a meare or meager cut in royalties as a percentage of total
profit. In return they are only asking you to enjoy their work in return for
honoring it by simply buying it. Its not to much to ask here isn't it?
If you wrote a book or made a video would you want someone to copy or sell
it without your permission? I know I cetainly wouldn't. As everyone knows
this is why music, print and multimedia material is copyrighted to protect
the creator or creators of the material and the consumer from cheap and
poorly imatated facimilies. Most of the bootleged and or pirated CD and
DVD's that you buy off of street vendors are of inferior quality no matter
how good the packaging may look on the outside.
The term bootleg comes from a 17th century act when early American
colonialist hid a small bottle of rum or whiskey inside a bootleg to smuggle
it from state to state. Today its commonly used as a term to mean to smuggle
or to steal.
You end up being stuck with no guarantee that the product will be
supported, you'll risk never getting your money back and you only hurt the
producers, movie studio and yourself. I myself never buy CD or DVD's from
street vendors period as the old saying goes you get what you pay for.
If you want a cost cheap CD or DVD buy them from the used or pre-owned bins
in most Circuit City or Blockbuster stores. Most on average pre-owned DVD's
go for between $9.00 up to $14.95 which are real good bargins to me. But be
carefull here to inspect the product to be sure that what its says on the
lable is what is in the case or box.
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But isn't that a violation of copyright if it is a pre-recorded video tape?
That is my gripe about this situation, you purchased the media and
"content", but don't have the right to bring it forward as technology
changes.
Jim Maki
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