Pacific Mall Update-DVDs

[newguy27]

This is so ridiculous it is funny.

i'm glad you can amuse yourself G, but if you cant see the difference between stealing a physical item from a store and someone making an exact duplicate copy of something but leaving the original in place, then i'm sorry for you.

 

[Garrett]

i'm glad you can amuse yourself G, but if you cant see the difference between stealing a physical item from a store and someone making an exact duplicate copy of something but leaving the original in place, then i'm sorry for you.

Okay, let me make it clearer for you. You are an idiot. There are many things that do not exist physically but their usage constitutes theft. Patents and intellectual property are a prime example. Music is another. The only real difference between downloading and shoplifting is with downloading, you are certain you will not be caught.

 

[Garrett]

The ones I get them from is a father and son(Canadians) operation...so it's not always organized crime.

But where are they getting them from? When they bust some of the replicating labs, it is pretty clear it is not a mom and pop operation.

 

[Garrett]

Oh really? How about you guys first lower the prices and stop gouging people and exploiting artists first?

I have heard that out of a $23.99 CD album only about $1 goes to the artist, $5 for transportation,selling expenses,packaging, $3 profit for the store selling it, and a whopping $14.99 for the fat slobs that wonderboy007 is trying to make us feel sorry about.

Who is paying 23.99 for a CD? I mean, seriously. Nobody is. As for the cost breakdown, I found this source at the top of google. I have no bias towards its relevance: http://andrewapeterson.com/2007/11/07/arists-royalties-cd-sales-real-numbers/

For a 15.99 CD (and who pays even 15.99 these days):
$0.17 Musicians’ unions
$0.80 Packaging/manufacturing
$0.82 Publishing royalties
$0.80 Retail profit
$0.90 Distribution
$1.60 Artists’ royalties
$1.70 Label profit
$2.40 Marketing/promotion
$2.91 Label overhead
$3.89 Retail overhead

Doesn't seem that out of whack to me, never mind the numbers are inflated given the bulk of CDs I buy are in the 9.99 to 12.99 range. Most people who complain have never run a business or understand the concept of risk and are simply looking for an excuse.

 

[i am one]

Have you guys noticed that at Pacific Mall (or any other Asian mall) pirated Hollywood movies are $4-5, but pirated porn DVDs are $15-20? Yea, yea, downloads, usenet, torrents and etc., but the point is why are pirated porn DVDs more expensive when the two costs them exactly the same to burn?

Just an amusing thought.

 

[Nickelodeon]

i'm glad you can amuse yourself G, but if you cant see the difference between stealing a physical item from a store and someone making an exact duplicate copy of something but leaving the original in place, then i'm sorry for you.

I'm not going to get into name calling but I don't think there is a difference. Microsoft has built an empire (and it's legal) by licensing software.

So if you obtain intellectual property without paying for it, it's stealing. That's why they can shut down the DVD sellers in Pacific Mall.

By the way, I'm not debating morals or defending Microsoft (God help me). Same issue with patents with the big drug companies and licensed generic drugs.

 

[Pedro Sanchez]

I can't believe the RCMP doesn't have more pressing matters to tackle, and that our tax dollars fund these raids. What a waste...

Ya...just like when a cop pulls you over and gives you a ticket for not wearing your seatbelt or having a headlight out.

*sarcasm*


Quite a bit of the proceeds from the sale of pirated dvd's fund bigger crimes.

 

[spitze]

Ya...just like when a cop pulls you over and gives you a ticket having a headlight out.

been there the mother effer gave me a 65 bucks ticket !

 

[BuffNaked]

I'd be piss too if someone was undercutting my very own product too. BTW, according to supply and demand, what is the value of a product when supply is infinite?

 

[Plan B]

Ya...just like when a cop pulls you over and gives you a ticket for not wearing your seatbelt or having a headlight out.

*sarcasm*


Quite a bit of the proceeds from the sale of pirated dvd's fund bigger crimes.

How much does it cost to train each RCMP officer in Regina, and then they get to....confiscate $2 DVDs..gimme a break. This is a misuse of public funds, like a lot of other law enforcement "cases".

And how would you know the proceeds go to fund bigger crimes?

 

[escortsxxx]

Correction: in Canada downloading music moives etc is legal, and not theft. As long as no money exchanges hands its like lending a book, or lending your DVD you own or CD to a friend. Here its legal. IF you SELL it its illegal. Harper wants to change the law, but never got around to it. Unless it passed when I was not looking. which is quite possilbe. It was legal then till 2007 somethiing or other.

 

[a 1 player]

And that is where they will get and fine you for copyright Infringement.

and if you turn your upload off and be a leecher, then what? Is it ok to do then?

 

[escortsxxx]

PS If you have sex with a girl and dont pay the going rate (at leat 100 an hour minimum) are you stealing? Or is it legal to get it for "free"?

 

[a 1 player]

No comment... Post is pretty accurate

Enough said. Thanks.

 

[hamermill]

Too bad all the versions of Curious Case of Benjamin Button so far are crap. There's missing footage and the odd clipping. I saw it in the cinema, great movie worth seeing!

Not true - the version that /still was available is a dvd scr version - however it is missing 3 minutes. towards the middle (think about it as you went to have a piss and did not miss much)

 

[escortsxxx]

The escort will sent her pimp after you.

LOL iwas thinking wbere you are the pimp /bf/husband/ yes ducking out and not paying is stealing. One night stands wiht the same girl is not.

 

[Brandon123]

Now that these three places have been raided, where can someone get bootleg DVD's?