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On this forum itself you have people promoting piracy
Yes maybe. But this forum is for the people who buy Indian DVDs - if their promoting of piracy is wrong, I'm sure the righteous arguments can be made to counter it. In a fight against good and evil - good always wins yeh? What I object to is when bullshit is fed from these righteous people to counter piracy. Gist of it being, original DVDs are good - me say no they are not good :kungfu:
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If you don't even know that originaly DVD's if found faulty can be replaced than that shows the level of consumer awareness. As far as I know and I have personally exchanged a few dvd's that were faulty I haven't had a problem replacing them cause they were not "Pirated".
Faulty DVDs whether official or pirate can be exchanged - it depends more on the person who sold the DVD than whether the DVD is pirate or not. People want to watch their DVDs more than once instead of having the inconvenience of replacing discs after a few playbacks - yes that's the life expectancy of typical VS DVD - a few playbacks.
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You buy the original and you shall get the satisfaction
Satisfaction of what? That you paid for a DVD that is poor in quality, that doesn't represent the film, the way it should be seen? No doubt you must be satisfied with washed out colours, pathetic sharpness and poor encoding techniques (not to mention chunks of the film missing) used by these so-called 'original' DVD authors. Other are not satisfied.
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Oh and by the way since many are claiming that these pirated dvd's are of much better quality etc. does anybody know how these pirated dvd's are made. Think about that. There is no way in hell that these dvd's can be of better quality if you think about it carefully.
Again depends on which film/DVD you talk about and what you class as a pirate. I could list examples of so-called pirate DVDs that are better than originals. The pirates you talk about are copied from 'original' DVDs - so hence they're either as good as the originals or in case of 2in1 DVDs worse than originals if you know how to tell the difference. So why buy the pirate instead of the original? Maybe they're just cheaper and you feel less ripped off then buying the original. That's certainly the case with these 2in1 DVDs.
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But ofcourse it does not make sense to argue with you folks.
- but you still try - thanks I'm honoured 
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You talk about thwarting piracy but are actually promoting it by glorifying the pirates.
That's only half the truth - DVD companies do the other half of promoting the pirates themselves by putting these dismal original DVDs out one after the other :doze:
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Oh and it doesn't matter whether it be DEI, EROS , VS, Yash Raj etc I think that all of them would stand by their product ...
I've no doubt they do and wouldn't expect anything else from them. It's kind of far fetched to expect companies like Eros, YRF, VS etc to say the DVDs they put out are crap. Hence the reason this site exists - we do that job for them :love: This is half the problem why we get poor quality DVDs and why people accept poor quality DVDs. If distributors/makers of these DVDs say it's good quality DVDs - they just must be good right? That's the message you get from your post - I'm saying the DVDs they give are poor and this isn't based on emotions or grudge against anyone - technically most Indian DVDs are just poor when they shouldn't be.
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Without the help of the consumers I doubt it is possible to fight piracy and well if consumers want quality stuff than I think we should stop buying pirated copies.
I agree with you without the consumers you can't fight piracy but the quality stuff MUST come first and not the other way round! I'll give you another angle on the piracy issue - some people are choosing to buy pirates but others are not and still end up with pirates - they get pirates because that's the only thing being offered to them in shops. Pirates have flooded the UK shops with ditto copies of 'original' DVDs - these are cheaper, look the same and are the same quality wise. Distribution of the pirates into the market place is better than the originals. What does that say about the original DVD companies?
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A few handful aren't going to fight piracy but than a few handful are not going to promote it either. The show must go on. Right?
Yes indeed 
Back to topic of these VS announcement letters - I think mockery is expected from people, VS isn't the most known for the quality it brings to DVDs. But VS should rise above that and keep pushing this piracy issue instead of blowing it's top once in a while - because that's what it seems like - once in a while when a movie that matters to them financially, they'll make a big fuss over it. And rest of the time they'll go backwards with the quality of the DVDs destroying the effort the made previously.
90% of time promote piracy with crap DVDs, 10% of the time create fuss but not actaully do anything :rolleyes:
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And that's my point with all this piracy bull - it's never obvious which are pirates and which are not.