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Amazon Wins $6 Million in Damages Against Pirated DVD Stores, Plus Domain Takeovers
(torrentfreak.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
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So, companies should be legally forced to produce DVDs?
Also, piracy is one thing. Selling pirated content is another.
Some of this has the color of people feeling entertainment is a human right or something.
I always try to pay for my media in whatever way supports the creators the best.
But if Amazon won't sell the format I'm buying, I'll gladly pay someone who will. And laws made by Amazon soley for Amazon's benefit do not obligate me to become some kind of detective when I buy a DVD.
So sure, no one should force Amazon to produce DVDs, but Amazon shouldn't be able to stop others from producing what they refuse to produce. There's already laws about abandoned products that could be applied.
This is just Amazon using their money to be a bully.
This whole thing wouldn't be an issue if copyright was a reasonable length, like 5 years.
I will admit forcing a form factor is ill advised, but it should be possible to purchase a legal and permanent copy of said production in one form or another. Even if that is digitally, so long as it can be downloaded and doesn’t need some sort of online/phone home solution to play it.
No, but they shouldn't be allowed to sue for physical piracy on products they do not produce physically.
If someone goes to the trouble of designing and printing box and disc art for a product the rights holder won't do, that's a problem on the rights holder side.
There's a demand for physical, fill it, and make the pirate product irrelevant.
Forcing the copyright holder to sell on DVD would be problematic. Why not just permit others to offer it in a format that is apprently in demand (e.g. by reducing copyright to 5 years, instead of ~5 billion)?
Pirating is indeed one thing (on boats.. stealing, with violence and murder). If you say "unauthorised copying" instead of using the music industry's propaganda term then maybe nuance is easier to see.