No problem at all Hugh! This particular can of worms can be a really good discussion one day that the internet and the digital age has changed the defining quality of books, music and film. Where they used to live only as physical items that could be held in your hands and where "ownership" and "theft" were concrete descriptions, now they have become much more abstract.
Best regards, Dennis Doros Milestone Film & Video PO Box 128 / Harrington Park, NJ 07640 Phone: 201-767-3117 / Fax: 201-767-3035 / Email: milefi...@gmail.com Visit our main website! www.milestonefilms.com Visit our new websites! www.mspresents.com, www.portraitofjason.com, www.shirleyclarkefilms.com, To see or download our 2014 Video Catalog, click here <http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0150/7896/files/2014MilestoneVideoCatalog.pdf?75> ! Support "Milestone Film" on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Milestone-Film/22348485426> and Twitter <https://twitter.com/#!/MilestoneFilms>! On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Hugh Davis <hughhda...@gmail.com> wrote: > Fair enough, and I don't mean to open any cans of worms, but the term just > hit me as one I'd use differently. > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Dennis Doros <milefi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> scam >> [skam] to cheat or defraud with a scam. >> >> >> Yes, I think there is hair splitting here. My semantics - a scam is >> posing as an honest business selling bootleg films illegally as "quality >> product" to the public. If the seller was on the street corner selling fake >> Prada bags for $200, I would think most people would call it a scam. It's >> just this DVD website is the minor leagues of scam. >> >> If he was advertising "Illegally duped copies of dubious quality from VHS >> cassettes" for $1.99, then it's not a scam, he's just a bootlegger. :-) >> >> >> Best regards, >> Dennis Doros >> Milestone Film & Video >> PO Box 128 / Harrington Park, NJ 07640 >> Phone: 201-767-3117 / Fax: 201-767-3035 / Email: milefi...@gmail.com >> >> Visit our main website! www.milestonefilms.com >> Visit our new websites! www.mspresents.com, www.portraitofjason.com, >> www.shirleyclarkefilms.com, >> To see or download our 2014 Video Catalog, click here >> <http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0150/7896/files/2014MilestoneVideoCatalog.pdf?75> >> ! >> >> >> Support "Milestone Film" on Facebook >> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Milestone-Film/22348485426> and Twitter >> <https://twitter.com/#!/MilestoneFilms>! >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Hugh Davis <hughhda...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Just from a semantic standpoint, I would say the site is shady (it is >>> selling DVDs of films which have not had commercial releases, at least not >>> beyond now out-of-print VHS) but not necessarily a scam. It reminds me of >>> some of the things you could once find on ioffer and ebay (both of which >>> have now cracked down) offering burned copies of films not otherwise >>> available. I would say a scam site cheats the buyer out of anything, >>> whereas this simply sells things that are not commercially-produced discs, >>> but perhaps I am splitting hairs this morning? >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Jessica Rosner <maddux2...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Um yes. Two rules of thumb if a website/company you never heard of has >>>> major films not available on sites like Amazon or Midwest Tape it is a scam >>>> also a site where you don't see any box art ( though some scam sites have >>>> scam ones) and almost every title is the same price is a scam. There must >>>> be hundreds of these around. This one seems to specialize is wholesome made >>>> for TV movies ( though it has others). >>>> >>>> As an example THE STONE FOX listed there has never been legally >>>> released on DVD >>>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Sarah E. McCleskey < >>>> sarah.e.mccles...@hofstra.edu> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Can the CW confirm for me that this is a shady website with bootlegs? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> www.lostmoviesfound.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Sarah >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Sarah E. McCleskey >>>>> >>>>> Head of Access Services, Film and Media >>>>> >>>>> 112 Axinn Library >>>>> >>>>> 123 Hofstra University >>>>> >>>>> Hempstead, NY 11549 >>>>> >>>>> 516-463-5076 >>>>> >>>>> sarah.e.mccles...@hofstra.edu >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of >>>>> issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic >>>>> control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in >>>>> libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve >>>>> as >>>>> an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of >>>>> communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video >>>>> producers and distributors. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of >>>> issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic >>>> control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in >>>> libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as >>>> an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of >>>> communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video >>>> producers and distributors. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of >>> issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic >>> control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in >>> libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as >>> an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of >>> communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video >>> producers and distributors. >>> >>> >> >> VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of >> issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic >> control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in >> libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as >> an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of >> communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video >> producers and distributors. >> >> > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of > issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic > control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in > libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as > an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of > communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video > producers and distributors. > >
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
