More than two years ago, Amazon sued a network of websites that sold pirated DVDs of Prime Video exclusives such as The Rings of Power and The Boys. The defendants, believed to be based in China, never showed up in court. This week, a California federal judge awarded Amazon $6 million in damages and granted a broad domain transfer request, targeting registrars and registries.
…did they sell the pirates DVDs ON Amazon? That would be funny, and mildly ironic on how Amazon has zero accountability for all the counterfeit jank junk they sell.
“Since Amazon has never released some of these Prime Video series on DVD…”
It’s almost as if the answer were right there…
So, companies should be legally forced to produce DVDs?
Also, piracy is one thing. Selling pirated content is another.
Some of this has the color of people feeling entertainment is a human right or something.
So, companies should be legally forced to produce DVDs?
I will admit forcing a form factor is ill advised, but it should be possible to purchase a legal and permanent copy of said production in one form or another. Even if that is digitally, so long as it can be downloaded and doesn’t need some sort of online/phone home solution to play it.
Forcing the copyright holder to sell on DVD would be problematic. Why not just permit others to offer it in a format that is apprently in demand (e.g. by reducing copyright to 5 years, instead of ~5 billion)?
Pirating is indeed one thing (on boats… stealing, with violence and murder). If you say “unauthorised copying” instead of using the music industry’s propaganda term then maybe nuance is easier to see.
No, but they shouldn’t be allowed to sue for physical piracy on products they do not produce physically.
If someone goes to the trouble of designing and printing box and disc art for a product the rights holder won’t do, that’s a problem on the rights holder side.
There’s a demand for physical, fill it, and make the pirate product irrelevant.
Fuck Amazon.
$6m is such a small potatoes drop in the bucket for them (Amazon)… Fuck them (Amazon) and everyone who supports them!
Blue Origin burns 6m in a couple of minutes just in fuel.
The sum doesn’t mean anything to Amazon (whether they lose it or gain it), but it probably means a ton to the people they sued.
If they are based out of China, then Amazon won’t get a single cent out of them. They will be back up with a new name and website soon.
It probably doesn’t because they are not gonna pay it.
Which “them” are you talking about? It sounds like you mean the bootleg sellers, which implies you support Amazon. Mind you, I have no problem supporting the creative types making the content - it’s the absurdly large corporations milking customers for all they can that I have difficulty wanting to support.
Sorry, definitely fuck Amazon!
Avoid using Amazon…
