i am gpoing ot be disapprovign about counterifeit dvds

[TheHighwayCod]

adn you lot letting your kdis watch them
adn them thinkign its ok
and the links to SERIOUS organised crime

sextrafficking
durg running
that these counterfieters have

no i haven't and don't want to either

I'm not sure about downloading shows being bad. I never watch any adverts on the telly anyway, I always record programs and skip adverts. Is that stealing, too?

Apparently downloading really helped Battlestar Galactica, for example. It came out in the UK first, everyone shared their copies. Quite a few Americans watched it before it came out there, they told their friends how good it was, and it got great viewer numbers in the US.

nutcracker - no I haven't/ And it's not about being stuck up your arses, it's just plain wrong

Oh sorry i forgot some of you are just plain perfect.

'So cos you download films your a druggy or involved in other criminal activity ?? '

Yes, b/c downloading these films w/o paying from a site authorised to sell them is theft.

no we are just patient and law abiding and see the bigger picture where people get hurt by things

I don't want to go into too much detail on here in case someone knows me!I used to work in a restaurant and some thai guys use to bring those films in to sell to the chefs,It was videos in those days.We(the management and waitresses)never bought them but we were told quite openly what they were about and the kind of drugs etc that was involved with them.The other side is that it is murdering the arts

My brother does pay a subscription to the site he downloads them from.

My brother is not a druggy or invloved in any drug activity so sod off.

'murdering the arts' ????

I have only ever seen big blockbuster movies on pirate for sale. I'm not convinced that the Hollywood studios are really going to go down the pan if people continue to buy pirated films.

Disagree with it on moral grounds. Disagree with it on legal grounds. But 'murdering the arts' holds very little water as far as I'm concerned.

Why do people feel they can download films and then sell them for profit when they have had no participation in the making of the film in any shape or form.Film is an industry like any other and actors directors etc all have the right to profit from their work which is at times long and arduous.Why should someone else profit?Your brother is breaking the law Now I will sod off

If we download music or a movie, and we actually like it, we end up buying it.

We've been downloading Studio 60, but will no doubt buy it when it comes out on DVD. And DH wants one of the albums I've downloaded on CD for Xmas.

then it's not counterfeit, nutty. there are sites, like music sites, where you pay a fee and download legally.

there's a difference between that and going to a cinema, filming the movie then selling it.

there are some legal downloads but they are time delimited eg 0ne month and not for burning to your own..think lovefilm does it and they are expensive

Nutty, expat wasn't implying that your brother is involved in drugs. Your post read "So cos you download films your a druggy or involved in other criminal activity ?? ". Movie piracy IS a criminal activity whichever way you look at it

I wish wether the films i watch were counterfit or not was all I had to worry about I really do.

that is a good reason to be concerned about people who suffer because of things like this trade and escalating criminal activity as it effects more and more ordinary people just like us

OK - what about this?
While I would never buy a counterfeit dvd, we rent dvds from lovefilm or amazon and then [whispers] copy them onto our media centre hard drive. We don't pass them on to anyone else. We just watch them.
Have built up an excellent film library of disney (gah) for dd without actually having to pay money to the evil corporation.
Am I morally bankrupt?

i accept that it's against the law to copy cd/dvd's, i do also find it hard to sympathise with the fact that it takes profits away from the music and film industry. i mean, actor's in hollywood films are so poorly paid aren't they, only 15 million per film , they must have to search down the back of their sofas for a few coppers to buy food

also the number of films which make money is small ..lots of films are made on the back of those successful ones so the pot is squeezed heavily

My brother works in film and it is only a very few who make big money

i'm aware of that, thats why i specifically said 'hollywood actors' in my post