Buying a pirated dvd movie........

Although the pirated DVDs are forbidden in china,there are still a lot of people selling and buying them.I have done it before,and I found there was no difference from the legal copy,and the price is much more lower.Maybe that is the mainly reason that people tend to buy the pirated ones.

Hi maria. I dont buy dvds from the streets. But I do watch pirated movies downloaded from the torrent. And if a movie is good I go to watch it on the movie theaters. However I remember buying those pirated dvds when I was very small. But now with internet connections I think everyone prefers downloading them online instead free of cost. Anyways have a nice day ... -=SuperShames=-

Selling Pirated DVDs/CDs of a newly launched movies are even more common in the streets of India. What I don't understand is though the law prevents from selling pirated things how are these people able to sell in the heart of a city without even having the fear of being areested!!! This is a good example of corruption level. Well buying a pirated DVD/CD is certainly wrong considering the effort and money the movie producers shell in. I think it our duty(with a little of courtesy) to encourage the movie makers. We can expect a better movie next time only when we encourage them by buying original DVD/CD or by watching them in the theatres. Even though if you buy a pirated DVD in the worst case do make it a point to buy the original DVD if you liked the movie. Regards, Narthan

I personally wouldn't buy them. I do not consider it immoral, just not worth it. There are a lot of places online one can watch stuff for free, often legally and one day soon, most of those movies will appear on one TV channel or the other anyway.

Going to cinemas to watched movies is now more expensive..so can you blame people who buys pirated dvd in such a cheap cost..here in the philippines you can buy it for less than a dollar.. though government does everything to banished the piracy in the philippines still there's a lot of vendors selling it.. I do watched pirated dvd because I can't afford going to cinemas to watched all the movies I wanted to see..

In my area,I have also seen someone who sold the copy DVD with cheap price in the street.But I think the quality is not bad actually,but I seldom buy it not coz it is illegal,but coz I usually watch the movies online,so it is unncessary to buy it extra.lol

This is a hard call. Pirating movies is theft and buying them steals from the owners of the movie rights. That said, DVDs are mass produced and way too expensive as I see it. I'm guilty of copying movies that my daughter has bought and we have copied some of mine for her. I don't buy new movies because they are too dear. I only pay $2 or $5 dollars or maybe a bit more if I really want the movie. I have over 200 DVDs and some of them I have watched several times. In the days of videos, I often taped a movie from the TV.

That is a big issue here in our country... The government has been trying to fight this, pirated stuff being sold on the streets, but it is really hard since many people buy it, since it is very cheap and sometimes the quality is good too. And you don't have to wait such a long time to watch the movie, and it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

We would be saving a lot of money if we buy pirated cds. However, this is illegal. And also, do not think we will be having quality movies to enjoy watching with if we allow piracy to take over coz the movie companies are losing a lot of dollars because of this. And if the movie companies fail to earn, they would not be able to put together new good movies in the future.

Hi Maria, We have all these pirated dvd around here in my country. It's been here for a long time I could remember. It wasn't that popular before but people think it's more practical rather than buying those original CDs when in fact you just need to watch a movie once except if you really like that movie though. I bought it and I am not guilty. I don't want to be guilty.

I bought a pirated movie in San Francisco that I think was brouht from Mexico and I got it for only $5. The sound was messed up though.

Just watch a movie though internet, or called livestream it is free, you may also a download a movie if you want, almost all of the resources regarding on movies are all on the internet, if you are interested then try to search, there is tons of movies out there, and some of them are blu-ray

Hmm at here a lot of seller selling pirated dvd. Even sometime they caught by police they still selling pirated dvd at other day. It is because most people at here like a cheap price. Original dvd is expensive that why people buy pirated dvd. But pirated dvd dont have a quality. Sometime I also buy pirated dvd. When i play in dvd player sometime it stuck and sound not clear.

I'm gonna go all computer ethics here. This is actually a major computer ethics question. Just because it's available and possible, can we download any picture off the Internet? What if the copyright symbol isn't there and it doesn't say copyrighted? Can I just take it then? Can I come to your blog, copy your blogs onto mine, and then call them mine? Pirating DVDs is illegal. I think everybody would agree with that. Therefore, buying pirated DVDs is contributing to illegal activity. The act of buying pirated DVDs may or may not be illegal in your location, but it should be considered the same as stealing. The DVDs were created to be sold. There are people that rely on the sale of the DVDs to live. We steal from these people every time we buy a pirated DVD.

On most of the dvds I buy, usually films they have a commercial right at the beginning say that piracy is a crime. But unless they can properly enforce it, there will always be pirated copies out there. But film industries make soooo much money, that pirating will not cause much of a dent in their profits. It depends on your conscience I suppose. DVDs are cheap enough, I usually wait till they have gone down in price, so I buy the legit copies. Ice Age 4 was £12 in the shops and they a good profit out of that, I want it but won't pay the full price, so just by waiting a couple of months, it will go down to £5, wait longer and it will come down to £3. Probably cheaper than the pirated versions!

wow Maria if you bought pirated dvd movies here in the US and were caught you woui ld be fined as its illegal to buy either stolen orp iratec movies and tVS.I do not go there as I alwmost had to payu a find for downloaded music that was not to downloaded but I managed to tell them I had not idea they were not available to down load as the site clamied they were free and not under copuright .With me its just that I feel for the performers that are bilked out of their earningd from these pirates.

There are also pirated ones here and it gets cheaper because the government is on the look out so i guess thats why they make it a whole lot cheaper lol.. costs us 40.00 and less per dvd

Honestly, piracy is never really good. It would take down the movie and music industry which is happening here in the Philippines. Movie makers are making movies when there's a special occassion like christmas or year end. There are very rare musical artist are making albums and no more talents to discover in terms of music. All are into good looks now and not pure talent. Piracy ruined everything.

Pirated DVD’s, CD’s and other media related goods is common here in my country, since I live here in the Philippines where it is the gate portal for trade in other parts of southeast Asia, commonly pirated goods are badly shipped in the country for black market trade. Although, authorities in my country did prepared strict implementation of pirate law, somehow they can’t stop the trade because some might have been confiscated and then released by government smugglers. Somehow, this industry is hurting the media industry most especially the media and computer industry mainly because in media: They sell pirated movie films and in computer: They sell pirated softwares. Although this is rampant, I wouldn’t buy such, mainly because I don’t want to be sued by authorities because I had purchased something that is fake and in low quality.

I don't mind other people buying a pirated cd. However, I prefer not to buy pirated cd's. It is not only a violation but also will cause damage to dvd player or to my computer. It's better to buy the original ones. Just a suggestion. :-)