DVD Piracy on the Rise?

[admin]

A report from Futuresource Consulting Inc. suggests that around a third of all people in the US and UK are copying DVDs with somewhere around 70% saying that they would have bought at least some of those copied DVDs. What was interesting was that around 60% of the sources for the copying was their own purchased copy in the US and 50% in the UK. This means that over half of the discs that were being copied had already been purchased by the copier. So what is the real story behind the numbers?

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[j_garcia]

The majority of titles these days are so cheap, it almost isn't worth taking the time to rent and then copy them (if that is what the other percentage is).

 

[Reorx]

Every Movie I buy, I store as a ISO file on my computer.
Then I keep the original on a shelf, and burn a DVD
for my wife and 4yr old to destroy / watch.
The DVD's last about 2 months.

The originals, never leave my house, and very rarely get used...

 

[kleinwl]

Since the studios have made the fair use act essentially worthless (you have to break the law to circumvent the anti-copy CSS encryption) I have just stopped buying movies. Yes, I unfortunitly still support the movie industry (3rd hand) by having a netflix subscription... but it makes me happier knowing that I am at least reducing the amount of my support financially.

I wish we would have a supreme court decision throwning the whole DRM legality out the window and really allow fair use... until then we are just a world of pirates that the studios have every right to fine and throw in jail. Orwell anyone?

 

[snappy_snoopy]

Since the studios have made the fair use act essentially worthless (you have to break the law to circumvent the anti-copy CSS encryption) I have just stopped buying movies. Yes, I unfortunitly still support the movie industry (3rd hand) by having a netflix subscription... but it makes me happier knowing that I am at least reducing the amount of my support financially.

I wish we would have a supreme court decision throwning the whole DRM legality out the window and really allow fair use... until then we are just a world of pirates that the studios have every right to fine and throw in jail. Orwell anyone?

agreed, still i buy alot of mine now days since they are really getting that cheap, there are so many dvds i can buy for the same amount if not less than it would cost to ent it for a night or week. its getting to that point where it no longer really financially viable plus the video store(to rent) gets them the same time that the dvd store to buy gets them too. So what is the point really there is not much of a decision there if you ask me