What in the blue-titted hell is Warner Bros. playing at with this nonsense? There's gotta be a reason for this, albeit I'd wager it's an asinine one.
As for the legality of this, I don't think it's illegal, just really sketchy.
edited 25th Oct '11 9:03:21 PM by MarkVonLewis
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Illegal? No, but it is very, very stupid.
go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine
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Bleh... I did not like the Harry Potter movies anyhow...
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Well its the way Disney does it with their movies.
And now that I think about it, it also revives interest in the series itself, but yeah it's mainly about money.
edited 25th Oct '11 9:07:12 PM by tclittle
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I think there's opportunity for profit here - buy up a lot of the DV Ds, and then after they get pulled off shelves sell em on the street/Ebay for increased prices.
Eh, I see Harry Potter on cable a good amount of the time anyway. Why would I buy them at all?
I don't like this. It only encourages people to find the movies anyway via other means. You shouldn't forcefully take things from stores when you've already sold to them, unless maybe it's on credit.
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Meh, either don't buy the movies or pirate them. Either way they lose.
All this will do is encourage piracy, then Warner Brothers will bitch about that, and all I'll have to tell them is "I told you so."
Think piracy is bad when the shit is on the shelf? Just wait until you can't buy something commercially.
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Yup, being abandonware will make even staunch anti-piracy folks consider pirating it fair game.
I don't watch Harry Potter movies, but if this was a series I had a casual interest in I would be put off by this behaviour. I'd have to be really, truly in love with a series to give into this kind of stunt. I find it obnoxious.
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I'm a little worried that this is just an excuse to make piracy more visible so that they can justify attacking it with harsher measures. A bit conspiracy theory, perhaps, but not too far off from what they're already doing. Harry Potter is certainly popular material, but classic Snow White oldschool Disney it is not, and there's a big difference between withholding past culture and withholding PRESENT culture.
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.
Looks like Warner Brothers is taking a page from Disney.
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2011/10/25/harry-potter-dvds/
In short, every single Harry Potter Dv D is going to removed from shelves by December 29th.
Should companies be able to do this? Is it actually legal?
I guess I'll have to spend money to get some of these movies by the time this happens.
(Sorry if this isn't the right place to put this.)
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