MPAA chases uploads, ignores open sales of DVD-Rs?

rbrander writes: "Go to TVBoxSet.com and find a remarkable sales site for box sets of TV shows — including not only surprisingly cheap deals, but offerings not found elsewhere, such as all ten seasons of "JAG" in a box set, when the production company is only up to season 4 so far. Oddly enough, they are all described as "region free".

Then Google "tvboxset" and find every link below the first is to a complaint or news website complaining of the scam. Add "gazette" to the query and be quickly taken to this story in the Montreal Gazette ...which states that those who do get a product shipped find it to be a DVD-R apparently recorded off the air.

The really odd thing? They're still in business! The Montreal Gazette story is six weeks old. Now what's in it for the content industry to beat up private citizens with $220,000 judgements or scrambling to get DeCSS sites shut down within hours, while corporate scammers openly sell pirate DVDs for months on end, unopposed?"

simple.

[SharpFang]

Individuals won't fight back - the return of investment is safe and quick, they are easily bullied into paying. MPAA doesn't care about piracy - they just found a new source of revenue: lawsuits against random people. OTOH suing an actual pirate corporation may easily take up more money in lawsuit costs than it would return in compensations (and they know the real 'profit' of stopping a competitive source of movies is nearly null, not to mention the whole 'copyright' bullshit they don't care about at all) -