| Michael Leone on Sat, 11 May 2002 01:50:11 +0200 |
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On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 19:12, Darxus@chaosreigns.com wrote: > On 05/10, Michael Leone wrote: > > How can a Chinatown VCD be legal (presuming a copyrighted work)? Even > > when it is legal to produce them (I've seen a Korean VCD version of Toy > > Story), is it legal to sell them in this country? I would have thought > > that the studios would have made that a condition of sale (kinda like an > > OEM copy is not supposed to be sold retail) that it only be sold in > > Asia. > > It's a valid commercial media format supported by most current american DVD > players. I haven't heard of any restrictions on it. That would be dumb. Maybe not in the studio's eyes. I doubt the sales of the Asian version would be all that substantial in a non-Asian market, and so they might want to limit it to sales in a certain area, to minimize returns, etc. Just because you might think it's dumb doesn't mean they think it's dumb. They don't think it's dumb to CSS-encrypt a DVD, for example. > I'm sure it's much easier to copy the VHS version. That would be illegal, too. -- PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg> Conform or be cast out. Attachment:
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