Forum - View topicA bootlegger website (moderators please) that is not blackli
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kusanagi-sama
 Posts: 1723 Location: Wichita Falls, TX |
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There is a wesbite, [This URL is a known Bootlegging website] www.[This URL is a known Bootlegging website] , that sells primarily bootlegs (probably 90% of his business), and I want to make sure that this website is added to the [This website is a known bootlegger] list. I wound up buying his Fushigi Yuugi boxset from his ebay sale early this year.
The other thing is that he is selling "rare" metal box boxsets that have some have no DVD's and others do but are made to fit the normal official DVD set would normally have for quite a high price, however, I know that most companies like Bandai, ADV, and Geneon don't ever sell metal boxsets. A good example is Full Metal Panic, that he says has all 7 DVD's from ADV in a metal box, and its cost is $154.99!! Last edited by kusanagi-sama on Wed Nov 03, 2004 7:05 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Godaistudios
Posts: 2075 Location: Albuquerque, NM (the land of entrapment) |
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Well, ADV did commission Paul Champagne to do their BGC 2040, EVA, and Gasaraki
http://www.designpaulchampagne.com/anime.html That box looks like one of his designs as well... Given the cost of the FMP DVD's, that actually could be a legit deal, especially since it's fairly easy to get the FMP DVD's for about $18 each, if you know where to look. I'm just not sure how much the metal boxes go for. This really should be moved to the retail forum. |
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kusanagi-sama
Posts: 1723 Location: Wichita Falls, TX |
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Oh, ok, thats the only legit anime he sells, however, this guy does primarily sell bootlegs, in fact, thats about all he sells, besides those tins.
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Tempest
 I Run this place.ANN Publisher  Posts: 10455 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Okay, taken care of. Links to that site have been banned (someone beat actually beat me to the ban by a few seconds while I was checking the site out).
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kusanagi-sama
Posts: 1723 Location: Wichita Falls, TX |
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Thank you very much. I just wish there was some way to report him to the authorities.
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Tempest
I Run this place. ANN Publisher Posts: 10455 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Well, the authorities rarely act on this kind of issue. The best thing to do is to send URLs to the licensors.
As we've seen recently, they do sometimes act. What you can do is write up a nice little letter stating, "I am confident the store is selling a number of items (bootlegs) that infringe on your company's copyrights. Here is a small sample of the products they offer that may be of interest to you: [insert numerous URLs linking to bootlegs associated to specified company]" Send one such e-mail to a couple companies (I'd suggest Bandai and ADV first, they appear to be the most aggressive in protecting their copyrights of late). If you can't find a proper e-mail addy to send this item to, just send it to that company's generic e-mail addy.... it might make its way to legal (You should probably state, please forward to legal/copyright department). Also, start by linking to premium titles, for example Evangelion in ADV's case, and Gundam in Bandai's case. Have fun. And remember, even if they don't respond, it doesn't mean that your efforts were ignored. They're just dumb that way sometimes. -t |
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Allen
Company Representative
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Any time we see anything like this, we do take the time to look into the matter. You probably won't see a direct response from us, but yes, we are aware of things like this. But for those rare instances where we miss something, we have a special email set up to handle reporting issues like this. [email protected]. If you run across anything like this in the future, please feel free to email us. thanks, allen online marketing manager www.advfilms.com |
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kusanagi-sama
Posts: 1723 Location: Wichita Falls, TX |
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I was thinking about doing that. Maybe this weekend.
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