p2pnet news | Movies:- What’s the difference between Jammie Thomas and TVBoxSet.com?

“Go to TVBoxSet.com and find a remarkable sales site for box sets of TV shows, including not only surprisingly cheap deals, but offerings not found elsewhere,” posts Calgary’s Roy Brander (right) on Slashdot.

“For example,” he says, “they have a set with all ten seasons of ‘JAG’. The problem is that the production company is only up to season 4 so far.

“Google ‘tvboxset’ and find every link below the first is to a complaint or news website complaining of the scam. Those who do shop at the site get a product that appears to be a DVD-R recorded off of cable. The really odd thing? They’re still in business! A story at the Montreal Gazette about the scam is six weeks old.”

OK. So?

“Now what’s in it for the content industry to beat up private citizens with $220,000 judgements or scrambling to get DeCSS sites shut down within hours, while corporate scammers openly sell pirate DVDs for months on end, unopposed?” – Brander wonders.

It’s like this, Roy: There are two ways of looking at things: Your way and the CEIC (Corporate Entertainment Industry Cartel) way and, well, unfortunately ……..
Meanwhile, “Westmount [Montréal] resident Brian Wrench said he recently had a bad experience ordering programs through tvboxset.com,” says The Gazette, continuing:

At the end of June, Wrench bought what was advertised on the site as all 278 uncut episodes of the Carol Burnett Show, spanning 11 seasons on eight DVDs.

The website, billing itself as “Your #1 Resource for Rare or Hard to Find DVDs,” promises the regularly priced $139.99 box set on sale for $89.99 contains “excellent video and audio quality, 100 per cent in chronological order, commercial free and unedited,” complete with “custom artwork and episode guides so you can find your favourite episode at any time.”

That’s not quite what Wrench received.

During a visit to Wrench’s home yesterday, a Gazette reporter viewed a poor-quality program obviously taped from television. A logo for TV Land (a channel specializing in classic programming) appeared on the bottom left-hand side of the screen. Rather than the advertised original Carol Burnett Show, the programming Wrench received is a 48-hour Carol Burnett and Friends marathon, including some repeat episodes that were broadcast on TV Land. There was no sign of the custom artwork or an episode guide.

Stay tuned.

Slashdot it!

Also See:
Slashdot – MPAA Chases Uploads, Ignores Open Sales of DVD-Rs?, October 7, 2007
$220,000 judgements – Hit the RIAA and Big Music where it hurts!, , October 5, 2007
The Gazette – ‘Classic TV’ DVDs weren’t what buyers expected, August 213, 2005

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