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Post by Loser-Boy 2049 on May 12, 2008 12:35:50 GMT -5
I just recently purchased the Sleepaway Camp box set and I was just thinking about how you can get them for like 4 buck each at wal-mart. However I looked online and it looks like those editions are classified as bootlegs. Am I wrong or aren't bootlegs illegal? How does a company get away with selling bootlegs if they are?
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Post by Neal on May 13, 2008 5:42:35 GMT -5
I have that same boxed set. I think if no one owns the copyrite than anyone can release them like Night of the Living Dead.
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Post by 3campbellst on Sept 13, 2008 4:16:07 GMT -5
A copyright, like a patten expires. If they're not reapplied for people can reproduce them.
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Post by Loser-Boy 2049 on Sept 16, 2008 8:02:59 GMT -5
I know that but I don't think the copyright on Sleepaway camp movies has run up. I think these are just straight bootlegs.
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Post by Jobes on Sept 30, 2008 13:50:56 GMT -5
I highly doubt it.
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Post by Loser-Boy 2049 on Oct 1, 2008 5:32:46 GMT -5
Actually they are bootlegs sold in walmart: "Legacy Entertainment released unauthorised DVDs of the trilogy right in Canada and the USA in Walmart, the centre of all saintly consumerism. They're just plain video rips, which provides one solid point - as part one comes from the original VHS, it's uncut. Unknowingly, this five dollar bargain bin disc achieved what not one but two different Anchor Bay DVDs were able to. Even so, it's a rip from the inferior Video Treasures VHS so they didn't even get that right. The covers are whacky and inaccurate, but garish and collectible. Apart from questionable legalities, these are popping up everywhere and appear to be cheap entry points into the films for new fans." first bootleg on the top of the page: www.sleepawaycampfilms.com/bootlegs.htm
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Post by 3campbellst on Oct 1, 2008 11:56:52 GMT -5
Huh, I don't doubt you bro, it just an odd thing to think of. If you're saying it, I trust you've researched it. There has to be something that frees them from culpability. Maybe the onus of the video's legitimacy falls on the company from which they are purchased. While it doesn't seem right, I'm not exactly up on the stipulations of "Plausible Deniability", but you'd figure a company that large has teams of dirt bag lawyers that know all the loopholes. It's funny, I walk by that bin at least twice weekly, and I've never noticed. Now I'm almost certainly going to look through it, just for giggles.
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Post by Loser-Boy 2049 on Oct 1, 2008 17:20:12 GMT -5
I've seen them before and I've been half tempted to buy them. As is I bought the first one on another bootleg that was a double feature bootleg. I'm assuming it's up to Anchor bay to file a lawsuit but they just haven't bothered. Maybe they don't see Sleepaway Camp as a big enough series to warrant it. I do know though it is, without a doubt, a bootleg.
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Post by wulf on Oct 1, 2008 21:53:53 GMT -5
I'm sure there's an angle being worked there somewhere.
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Post by VannPyre on Oct 4, 2008 16:29:25 GMT -5
WalMart... always sticking it to somebody... ALWAYS.
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