kuri wrote:
> "Curt Fischer" <tentrillion@gmail.NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
> 
> 
>>This is delicious.  The old "prices are too unreasonable" bit.  I'll try
>>the same argument when I try to sneak some watermelon into my backpack
>>at the grocery store.
>>
>>Or is there some sort of kuri central commission on price approval that
>>I can look to for guidance before deciding what to steal?
> 
> 
> That should be the job of the copyright institutions.
> 
> Of course, there are people that do piracy just like they shoplift, but
> that's not the case of everybody.
> 
> If a movie is sold 15 euro in France and 15000 yen in Japan ? I have seen 50
> euro becoming 150 000 yen for teaching material...and the Japanese market
> copy was so poor that we *had to pirate* the 50 euro one. As you know, you
> cannot legally bring the cheap one into Japan and convert the format
> yourself. You don't think there's a kind of rip off  ? Officially, there is
> free trade, so why can't we import the French version (which is identical in
> content  to the other one BTW) and just pay the copyright ?

I did not know this.  Is it unique to French material?  I am pretty sure 
it is 100% legal to buy DVDs from the US amazon and have the delivered 
here, and likewise for books.

> Also, if an editor doesn't reprint/send the book that 80% of my students are
> using, and I cannot legally copy it for the 20% left...If the editor paid
> back the 80% of books already bought, so we get 100% of what we need from
> another edition, but that's not the case. Why can't I reprint the book
> myself and just pay the copyright ? I think I am a victim of the system too
> because I sell them their f.... books and they let me down about supply.

Yes, you are a victim.  A victim of not being able to do whatever you 
want, all the time.  My tears are already flowing.

> This is not your watermelon. I don't steal the piece of plastic of the DVD,
> the ink, the paper.I'm just unable to reward the author because of an unfair
> system. Also they make me buy a whole water melon when I need only a small
> part of it.

Whenever I steal watermelons I put money in an envelope and send it to 
watermelon farmers.  That makes it all OK.

-- 
Curt Fischer