[GeneD]

I HATE Jack Valenti -- he'd have been right at home with the slime that testified before Rep. Burton today -- but when eBay has about 250 listings of copies of 8 Mile (most of them now "invalid," by the way), and some idiot tries to sell a thousand copies in a Featured-Plus Auction, somethin' scwewy's goin' on awound heah.

Given that most of the DVDs and VCDs seem to originate in Southeast Asia I wouldn't be surprised if Osama and Big Al have a hand in this. There's one good reason for not buying pirated intellectual property.

[Porter]

It is sad, people that do pirate movies usually DL them offline. They usually spend any where from 6 to a mind boggling 24 hours to DL movies. If they are ever, mass produced, the quality of the pictures is usually bad enough to catch the person doing it. Generally people that pirate movies are bigger losers than I am.The fact that the quality sucks is yet another reason for people to shut up. People usually buy the VCDs and DVDs anyway. Because they are re-mastered. This sounds like some big Exec's getting mad that they are losin maybe .003% of money possibly made because people get to see the movie before they buy it...(and if the movie sucks, that may discourage some from buying it.)

[Timesink]

Jack Valenti and Bill Moyers alone reek more of evil than the entire Watergate crew combined.

[js1138]

I was bidding on some OCR scanning software advertised as "Original disk damaged, this is a copy". I emailed the seller, asking if the original damaged disk would be included, or whether the copy was a replacement supplied by the manufacturer. A few hours later the auction was cancelled.

Whatever one thinks of copying for private use, I have no sympathy for people who sell copies.