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DVD Rental

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  • 16-02-2009 4:25pm
    #1
    pistolpetes11
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 7,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Rented a couple of DVD's over the weekend in a fairly well known DVD rental chain in Newbridge.

    Herself asked me to drop them back this morning , so I had them in my bag in work and one of the lads noticed them and opened them up to see whatthe movies were , any way on 2 of the 3 DVD's it had "NOT FOR RENTAL" in big bold letters.

    I had not noticed this at home and was just wondering is this a common practice in DVD Rental stores to buy consumer products and rent them on a commercial basis ? Is it even legal ?

    Cheers


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    Big Wave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 313 ✭✭Big Wave


    Sounds illegal. Ask them about it and see what they say.


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    projectmayhem
    Registered Users Posts: 9,480 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    There was a chain called movies4u2c that did this and apparently got into trouble with it & got fined...

    It's compeletely illegal as purchasing a "for sale" copy of a DVD is cheaper then a rental one for these stores, as the rental one is a license to rent out multiple times.


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    nowimtalking
    Registered Users Posts: 143 ✭✭nowimtalking


    It is illegal as far as i know because if you read the small print on DVD boxes it states any reproduction, distribution..... and will result in legal proceedings


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    pistolpetes11
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 7,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭pistolpetes11


    projectmayhem wrote: »
    There was a chain called movies4u2c that did this and apparently got into trouble with it & got fined...

    It's compeletely illegal as purchasing a "for sale" copy of a DVD is cheaper then a rental one for these stores, as the rental one is a license to rent out multiple times.

    Thats what I was thinking ,
    At the end of the day I had the decency to go and pay to rent out my film when its so easy to download/buy a pirated copy these days, and i feel this company is taking the p**s !


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    krudler
    Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    The simple answer would be they have the same movie for sale and rental and the discs got swopped by accident, although the illegally renting them one is more likely...


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