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JMGuer : For a guy who "Don't konow or care....no horse in this race", you sure have jumped all over this. What is that now … 5-6 posts? All the while ignoring my careful explanation of the law, or, if you prefer, the legal loophole which leaves a gray area which makes these … I don't know, what's the word … oh yeah, LEGAL! Tell ya what, instead of this cause celeb BS, why don't you call Sony up and tell them all about it - I'm sure they and their army of lawyers have never heard about this DVD; and then you can call Amazon and get them to root out this den of thieves - but, oh, it would have to be illegal.

See, if Sony did re-release this here (and, uh, HBO would have a say as well, counselor), they might have a leg to stand on because they'd be enforcing their rights by acting on them. One of the chief reasons that so many of the early boots came out of Luxembourg and Italy and other bastions of freedom of expression was because the laws in those countries came closer to my beliefs than our laws do - specifically, concerning the premise that if you don't use it, you lose it. In other words, copyright could and should be used to protect economic rights, but not to suppress artistic product which existed in the public domain - and which people wanted. It's also one of the reasons that many places in the world don't extend copyright protection for as long as we do here - with the result that more things stay in print overseas. Maybe you should go chase an ambulance along with those idiot posters on Amazon. Do you really believe that no-one has ever brought this to Amazon's attention? 

Oh, and by the way, they speak Portuguese in Portugal. Perhaps you've heard of it? It's a little European country which borders Spain? Officially, and legally, it's called the Portuguese Republic - and their official language is the Portuguese Language. Like I said, call the cops. This crime must be at least as big as … oh say, the Lindbergh kidnapping? I'm sure they'll get right on it - and maybe Sony will throw in some officially legal Bob Dylan CDs for ya. 

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@Early Memphis

For a guy who "Don't konow or care....no horse in this race",

That's right. I don't care if it gets entered into the main db or not, doesn't change the fact that (in most peoples eyes, if not yours) it's an unofficial pirate release.


Oh, and by the way, they speak Portuguese in Portugal. Perhaps you've heard of it?

You don't say. My statement was an obvious reference to an earlier post about Brazilian (not Portuguese)  bootlegs, no surprise you didn't get it.

Rest of your post....(yawn) yeah, whatever.

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For being a Bob Dylan fan, he has no problem taking money out of Bob's pocket by purchasing product that is not authorized.

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JM : Still stickin' it to me, eh? *shrug* (they need a shrug Smiley here). You're right, I didn't "get" your comment - because you're from Portugal, right? And yes, I knew that Glass Music was from Brazil. 

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Grendell : Can't tell which side you're on - maybe that was the point? 

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Thanks for the heads up, but ... what discussion ...? Isn't this thread closed yet?  

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For being a Bob Dylan fan, he has no problem taking money out of Bob's pocket by purchasing product that is not authorized.

Not to condone piracy, but acquiring goods that are not available through "official" channels takes no money out of anyone's pockets.  An authorized, official release would have to be available for that to be possible.

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Agree 100 %

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Ken... mentioned that DVD Profiler Online Plus was coming years ago, and we never heard a peep since.

That's hardly fair.  We were given our last tease only nine months ago.

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