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dozi
Joined: 19 Jun 2004
Posts: 74
Location: The armpit of California.
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:25 pm
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Just wondering.
[edit - subject changed to remove offending link. The thread's kinda useless with the URL in contention gone, so it's locked. -b]
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darkhunter
Joined: 13 May 2004
Posts: 2992
Location: Los Angelas
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:31 pm
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No it's a bootleg site. Can't you tell by the HK product for bebop, run by a company call FX. Also there's a faq on the forum that explain bootleg: 26 episode in 3 DVD boxset, chinese/english subtitle, region free.
If you're seriously looking for cheap legit DVD than Deepdiscountdvd and digitaleye are the two cheapest on the net that stock new dvd.
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Kazuki-san
Joined: 21 May 2004
Posts: 2251
Location: Houston, TX
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:09 pm
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Oh man, gotta love it.
SNIP faq wrote: |
12.) How can you sell HK DVDs?
Hmm.. well.. I built a website.. I put up some DVDs.. People buy them.. Supply and Demand at it's simplest most beautiful level. If this is a question asking us to provide our suppliers then I'm going to politely refrain from comment as no company gives out their contacts. ^_~ |
Oh yes, please give me your contacts so I can buy that horrible crap.
Perhaps a new addition to the banned urls?
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darkhunter
Joined: 13 May 2004
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Location: Los Angelas
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 2:38 am
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Kazuki-san wrote: | Oh man, gotta love it.
SNIP faq wrote: |
12.) How can you sell HK DVDs?
Hmm.. well.. I built a website.. I put up some DVDs.. People buy them.. Supply and Demand at it's simplest most beautiful level. If this is a question asking us to provide our suppliers then I'm going to politely refrain from comment as no company gives out their contacts. ^_~ |
Oh yes, please give me your contacts so I can buy that horrible crap.
Perhaps a new addition to the banned urls? |
I bet it's really hard for a company like Bandai to sue one of these website.
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beelzebozo
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
Posts: 308
Location: Aurora, Colorado
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 2:51 pm
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darkhunter wrote: | I bet it's really hard for a company like Bandai to sue one of these website. |
Oh, trust me, they've sent the cease-and-desist letters. Then these guys simply take the offending DVDs down from their website and make them available "by special request" and through their retail shop. And once the heat is off, they put them back up again. And they admit as much in their forums
I know most of this because their shop is just down the street from mine and I hear a lot from our mutual customers. However, I'm not sure if I call it "mutual", these people drop $100 in that shop and then buy a Newtype (or a couple graphic novels, if I'm lucky) from me.
We've complained to the anime companies, to the FBI, Customs and Colorado & Denver law enforcement. Jack & S**t has been done... and Jack doesn't handle that department.
Yes, this is a sore spot with me because every day that that shop is open is another day that I hear "well, it can't be illegal because otherwise they'd be shut down".
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