My sister is spending a year in Kurdish Iraq doing mission work and she sent me back a gift for my birthday recently.
They were pirated DVDs from the black market in Istanbul.
She got me “The Best of Samuel L Jackson” (includes Snakes on a Plane!) and “The Best of Sean Connery” (and Thundercats Seasons 1 and 2) on DVD. SLJ has 30 (!) movies on 7 discs and SC has 25 movies on 6 discs. The quality isn’t all that bad either, I dont’ have an HD TV but the picture is DVD quality, the sound is dumbed down a little it seems, I would never buy a pirated DVD as I have a huge opposition to it (well qualifier: I did buy Sifl And Olly season 1 pirated from a comic con, and that’s only because it’s not on DVD otherwise).
Anyone else run into ridiculous DVD things like this? This was a fairly new to me concept (obscene amounts of movies in “collections” being sold for less than 10 USD). Are intellectual property rights really that lax internationally?
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