Hi, I was wondering what happens to people when they get caught with pirated vcds? What sort of punishment could they get? Thanks Look forward to a detailed reply

-- Anonymous (bondish_001@hotmail.com), February 18, 2002

Answers

Depends. If you're talking about a consumer who bought some, probably nothing. If you're talking about a dealer or someone who knowingly manufactures pirate VCDs, then I guess they would be subject to whatever legal penalties apply where they live.

-- Jason (Jason.Shumate@equant.com), February 19, 2002.

Since most pirate VCDs are from Malaysia, and that's an Islamic country, don't they take your hands off? ;-)

-- (69@69.69), February 22, 2002.

Silly, of course not. In Malaysia no doubt it's a islamic country but we are not barbarian. We have freedom of speech, religions and you can wear anything you want but not naked of course. I am Chinese and a Malaysian and i love my country.

Yes Malaysia is indeed a central of pirated VCD movies but our goverment are cracking down hard on dealers and manufacturer of such VCD movies.

So if anyone of you out there, please visit Malaysiaif you have the time. It's a beautiful country, beautiful peoples and you will love it. Thanks

-- Ken Lee (kenking66@yahoo.com), February 23, 2002.

And oh, Turkey too.

-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), February 23, 2002.

For all their worth, American-made DVDs may be expensive but are superior in terms of better quality, extra features (e.g. trailers, commentary), whereas from my experience many Hong Kong, Malaysian and Singaporean DVDs are cheaper but sometimes have poorer quality and only an extra set of subtitles or even nothing else at all.

-- Rick Ling (no@spam.needed), February 25, 2002.