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hi all,just a quick question.....

just seen a site offering dvd backups,where,if at all do you stand with regard to purchasing these so called backups???

It`s illegal.

Basically, they`re selling illegal pirate copies. Calling them `backups` doesn`t make them legal, any more than calling cannabis `PG Tips` will stop you from being arrested for drug dealing ;-)

If you buy or make copies for your own use, the only thing you realistically have to worry about is your conscience. (It isn`t a criminal offence, and the studios aren`t exactly going to sue you for owning a couple of knock-off DVDs.)

If you sell them, however, you could end up in very hot water indeed.

Mike

Personally, I think anybody who sells pirated DVDs is a real low life who does nothing more than profit from other peoples work and gives nothing back to the industry in return.

When a studio releases a DVD of a film, it has had to pay authoring and development costs, and the original film costs, plus it has to foot the bill for wages of many people. Someone who then pirates these discs is getting all the money from the sale, minus the small duplication costs.

Whilst I believe there are some valid arguments for home copying, and even some understandable excuses for downloading films illegally off the internet, anyone who sells pirated goods for profit is a dirty crook.

Editor
DVD REVIEWER

Get off that fence RJS! :-)

..anyway...where can I buy this cannabis PG Tips?

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cannabis `PG Tips`

I`ve always wondered how they make them chimps look happy.

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Wayne

Um, don`t know.
In this country I am against it.
Yet in poorer country`s in Europe, Russia, Yugo, Che, am all for it. Because maybe they can`t afford so much films like us. And the shops that do sell them, know the rich will buy and charge way over the odds.
When they are selling for 1euro at a time as well, think its good for the poorer people even if they do sell at normal prices in some shops.
The police allow it to happen, maybe even buy themselves. Only chase about once a week to make it look like they do something about it. But each will sell from same spot in cars all week, so could get them anytime in week. When the police make out they are chasing them (as said about once a week) they don`t chase, just let them close up and leave. Then they will come straight back.