Have anyone comes across a website call www.on9movie.com.DO NOT buy from them, they are selling all pirated stuffs. It's impossible for movies such as Red Dragon, Santa Claus 2 to be available so soon. Piracy is amount to theft. Someone should put a stop to this. I have monitor for some time on pirated sites and a number of them have been shut down, like movieon9.com and others. This message just to inform all would-be-buyers to be careful!!

-- Ken King (kenking66@yahoo.com), November 21, 2002

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Response to Pirated VCD

Well, put it this way. An original DVD cost about 100 Malaysian dollar because of taxes. The average fresh worker earns less than 2000 a month. How many DVDs do you think these people can buy? And if there weren't any pirated DVDs in the country, do you actually think that there will be that many people buying DVD Equiptments and home theatres? Get real man. Like it or not. Piracy benefits the hardware manufacturing industry.

-- DVD? (dvdhouse@hotmail.com), November 26, 2002.

Response to Pirated VCD

I'm torn.
I've believed that the effect of people who pirate or purchase/trade pirated materials is negligible to the author/owner as the pirate is little likely to actually purchase the item legitimately (Counterfeit items that make their way into legit supply channels are a different story, but that's not what we're talking about when we discuss VCDs). However, the net effect of VCD piracy on the Hong Kong film industry (which until recently was capable of truly brilliant cinema) has been almost total devastation. Discuss...

-- No One (no@one.com), November 27, 2002.

Response to Pirated VCD

Well, you are right there. However, if high taxes weren't imposed on VCD/DVDs, and legit copies aren't censored so much, and the originals don't take so long to reach the stores, people might just buy originals. As for Hong Kong movies, movies that were made the past couple of years, most of them were so bad that it wasn't even worth getting a bootleg copy.

-- dvd? (dvdhouse@hotmail.com), November 27, 2002.

Response to Pirated VCD

The people who say "Oh, poor malaysians can't buy $100 dollar Dvds, let em buy poor quality pirate vcds" are wrong. I have a couple legit HK Vcds but come on! letting people do something illegal because they're poor? Thats like saying, "That persons depressed and can't afford Prozac, let em buy under the counter columbian Smack" or something. Its stealing money from people who worked hard so impoverished Malaysians "enjoy" poorly copied, pixelized movies. not to mention pirated asian porn... do they really need it. If its too expensive save up or get something else like a normal person. Piracy hurts any industry period.

-- Lawrence J. Laffer (larrylaffer606@yahoo.com), January 03, 2003.