How to Cover Yer Ass While Pirating Movies
The other day I received a catalog from a "public domain" DVD-R/video outfit. Their order form contains a contract, parts of which read:I affirm that I am not working for any television of movie...
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Another way to do it is to charge a "membership fee" and run it like some sort of club. How THAT would save yer ass I don't know but they are out there."Permit me to introduce myself.My name is...
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the prints from companies like these is usually awful and there are never any extras or trailers.Legal or no, doesn't seem worth it.David N
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This is from the LA Times. Spotted this first on the Classic Horror Film Board and thought people here might find it of interest.How a Bit Player Became a Symbol of Film PiracyRussell Sprague may have...
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I mean dear God, when you've got outfits like Groundzero, Video Asia, and Xenon churning out bootlegs and putting them in Walmarts, this is just laughable. That is, if it wasn't so sad.Gung Fu Din...
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plus we will have to hear piotr penderecki use this as an example in one of his anti-bootlegging screeds probably.
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I've been following that a bit on Mobius. Piotr makes some good points, however. My particular beef concerns more the trademarking of certain public domain words or names, which then become illegal to...
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is they trade marked Dracula alone, hence all the other things like Dracula 2000, etc. I think it's strange as well. What I'm surprised hasn't been done is some enterprising writer take the Dracula...
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Quote:Universal apparently has a trademark on "Dracula," preventing anyone else from making a film with that title, something I find absurd considering it's the name of a book written in 1897 that...
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