Originally published at: Amazon Wins $6M Lawsuit Against Pirated DVD Stores
A California federal judge just handed Amazon a $6 million victory against a network of websites selling pirated DVDs of Prime Video exclusives. The defendants, believed to operate out of China, never bothered showing up to court. And here’s the kicker: Amazon will almost certainly never see a single dollar from this judgment. The lawsuit…
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So people still purchase dvds? That is weird to me. And let’s be honest those trumped up MPAA damage amounts are silly. But what is the end game for Amazon and the MPAA? This does nothing for them, again just shows how out of touch to reality the entire industry is imo.
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Yep well said…
@teehar We do on occasion. If one of us is in a thrift store or go past a bargain bin at Walmart and it’s something that one of us is nostalgic about or interested in, we’ll shell out just a few dollars.
Then I’ll rip them and compress the movie and add it to our Jellyfin server.
There are titles which are not available on RD, TB or a torrent search engine.
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yea I can see old, used or secondhand dvds. But this outfit was selling new material. Heck they took out the last redbox kiosk around here 2 years ago. And the thrift stores are chock full of cheap dvd and blu ray players, we still have one but its been ages since it was used.
The end game is to get judgments on record as precedent. These non-contested cases are easy wins and builds a legal precedent for the harder cases down the road.
yea good luck to them getting any sort of monetary gains out of cases like this. still seems like an act of futility to me, but that’s just my opinion.
I wonder how many DVDs you could get on a 64GB SDC or thumb drive? I had 6 Bluray that I put all the family pics on and then transferred those to sticks to give to the family and each one was barely loaded with tons more space. My brother has over 1000 DVDs he’s bought over the years but I never could understand watching the same movie over and over, but lots seem to. Our hobby is very diverse. Have fun and STREAM ON.
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It seems a pointless cost and effort, if they make enough and don’t turn up, whatever the future case.
DVD Movie Size (1.5 Hours):
A 1.5-hour movie on a standard single-layer DVD typically ranges from 3.5 GB to 4.7 GB, depending on video quality, compression, and additional content like subtitles, audio tracks, or extras. 
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@Miki @itzme Echoing itzme…DVDs aren’t huge in terms of size…Blu-ray, different story. Also, DVD files can be easily compressed to 1/2 to 1/3 of the size using Handbrake without losing any noticeable quality…at least to our eyes. One of the PC or Linux users may have a better app suggestion for compression.
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I typically buy DVD/BluRays because there are many titles that are simply not available through torrents.
But, I have another, related question. What if some of the DVDs that Amazon is selling on its site are themselves pirated? Do they sue themselves? I have purchased a set of DVDs from Amazon that, upon loading, were identified as on a DVD-R! NO production DVDs are ever on DVD-R media! OOOPS!
There are tons of 3rd party sellers on Amazon. Most of them are good and honest but there are deceptive 3rd party sellers. They had a problem with a bunch of 3rd party sellers advertising Thumbdrives with huge storage for dirt cheap. People would buy them only to find the true storage capacity was much less. When Amazon finds out about these deceptive 3rd party selllers they kick them out
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