Posted by Walter Traprock on 01/10/00 11:34

"steve" <steve@steve.com> wrote:

> > No, I'm not thinking about going into the biz of selling bootleg
> > movies on ebay. I just want to understand this (black? gray?) market
> > better.
>
> Doesnt seem to me that there is any ambiguity, here. The bootlegs are a
> violation of property rights, and a violation of copyright law.

Indeed it is; bootlegs are black market, even if you buy them in a store.
I've bought phelony bootlegs in stores, and their expensive, too.

Gray market means "parallel importing": for example, if you order a dvd
from another country that is not distributed officially in the USA, when
you received it, it would be called a Gray Market item.

There's a heck of a lot of stuff kept off the market by copyright
holders for mere political reasons, personal spites, or for "tightening
the market" by restricting supply where there's demand.

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