Article: Buying DVDs Online: How To Avoid A Fake
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Buying DVDs Online: How To Avoid A Fake
If you frequently buy DVDs online, you've probably had this experience. You find a great deal on a new release. It's described as factory sealed, direct from the manufacturer, and brand new. But something doesn't seem right. Maybe the price is just too low, you can't find the title in any stores yet, or buried in the shipping details is a suspicious reference to "repackaging the disc."
These are just a few of the tell-tale signs of a pirated, copied, imported or otherwise illegal DVD commonly referred to as a "bootleg." The MPAA estimates that DVD piracy costs the industry about $3.5 billion each year, despite numerous efforts to limit the replication of DVD movies (Variety.com, Nov. 3, 2004). On Ebay and other online marketplaces, bootleg DVD auctions often outnumber legiti...
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