DVD Trading thread

johnny_ultimate

A few people have brought this idea up over the years, so we've decided to give this a trial run. The idea is that you'll be able to trade unwanted DVDs with other posters. A few ground rules:

• No Piracy, no downloads, no 'dodgy' copies etc...
  
• No trading for money, that's what adverts is for. Only for trading DVD, Blu-Ray or VHS for DVD, Blu-Ray or VHS or possibly if it does come up other non-monetary item (film memorabilia, for example)
  
• There's only so much control we can have over this thread, or more importantly the people who are trading in this thread. If a trade is dodgy, let us know and we'll see what we can do, but you're trading at your own risk really!

Anyway, we'll give it a test run and see how it goes with the above in mind. Feel free to leave some sort of feedback on how a trade goes!

ShagNastii

Sounds like a cracking idea.

Magic Eight Ball

Great idea.
I've a spare copy of Straw Dogs' on DVD if anyones interested.

ztoical

What great timing I was cleaning up my dvds last night and discovered I've two copies of Network and Garden State, not sure how I managed that but free to good home or happy to trade

Otis Driftwood

Great idea JU.

Another US based site I use has a similar thread and Ive gotten some really cool stuff by trading that I may not have otherwise gotten or would have cost me a small fortune.

I will dig through my DVDs later and see what I have.I know Ive double dipped for a few things,particularly when buying boxsets.

johnny_ultimate

Otis Driftwood wrote: »

Great idea JU.

Give Renn the credit for bringing it up with us

Miguel_Sanchez

Anyone got a copy of 'Dear Zachary'?

Tried to order it off play.com but their copies were all corrupted.

If you've got a copy you're willing to trade let me know what you're looking for and I'll see if I have it.

Otis Driftwood

Gracias Renn!

Here is what Ive got to trade.


Salo Or The 120 Days Of Sodom 2 Disc Criterion release.
IMDB Link
I have one of these to trade.I bought it from cdwow a couple of years ago but they screwed up my order and I ended up with 2 of them so the one I have to trade is brand spanking new and still sealed in its original plastic.As it is new,and a collectors edition,Im not willing to trade it for just anything so it would require a decent trade offer to part with it.Please note,its a Region 1 release so wont play on a regular DVD player unless it has been unlocked.

August Underground - Mordum.

I bought this a few years ago direct from Toetag Pictures so its 100% original and legit.You wont get it anywhere for less than 25 or 30 euro so like Salo,I will only let it go for a decent offer.

These next ones I will part with for a simple straight swap.

The Beyond
The Evil Dead
Fight Club
Friday The 13th (original)
Nightmare on Elm Street (original)
Straw Dogs
I Spit On Your Grave (original)
Reservoir Dogs
Desperado Collectors Edition
Devilman - live action version of the Anime - this is Region 3
Kids
The Brown Bunny
Kill Bill Volume 1
The Best of Hammer Collection - 5 movie set of The Nanny,Dracula Prince of Darkness,Quatermass and The Pit,Frankenstein Created Woman,The Devil Rides Out.


All movie are region free/region 2 (apart from the 2 noted above) so will play on any player/xbox etc over here.


Im looking for any horror movies so list what you have on here and I will have a gander.

Magic Eight Ball

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

Anyone got a copy of 'Dear Zachary'?

Tried to order it off play.com but their copies were all corrupted.

If you've got a copy you're willing to trade let me know what you're looking for and I'll see if I have it.

You can download 'Dear Zachary' for free (legally) from the website.

clusk007

also looking for dear Zachary or the girl with the Dragon Tattoo if anyone wants to trade. I'd trade romper stomper or suggestions as I have a few hundred..

johnny_ultimate

Magic Eight Ball wrote: »

You can download 'Dear Zachary' for free (legally) from the website.

Do you have a link? Can't see on on the official site (I could just be blind). Have been meaning to watch it for like a year

Renn

Good stuff. Probably need to tidy this up a bit but here's a good chunk of stuff I'd like to move on:

DVDs

[Rec]
21 Grams
A Fistfull of Dollars (Special Edition)
A Room for Romeo Brass
A Very Long Engagement (1 disk)
All Quiet on the Western Front
American Beauty
American History X
Barton Fink
Basketball Diaries, The
Being John Malkovich
Bourne Identity, The
Bourne Supremacy, The
Bourne Ultimatum, The
Christiane F.
Crash (1996)
Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within
Dementia 13
Dr. Strangelove (Collector's Edition)
Dune
Ellie Parker
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Dutch release)
Eyes Without a Face
Funny Ha Ha
Hard Candy
Harsh Times
Hitler - The Rise of Evil
Holy Grail, The (Extraordinarily Deluxe Edition)
Hostel (Dungeon Deluxe)
Hot Fuzz
Inland Empire
Isle, The
Jackass 2.5
Jacob's Ladder (Box is slightly broken at the top)
Jeremiah Johnson
L.A. Confidential (Special Edition)
London to Brighton
Lust, Caution
Machinist, The
Man Bites Dog
Miller's Crossing
Mystic River
Narc
Network
Oldboy
Prestige, The
Raging Bull (MGM Edition)
Red Road
Ring, The (2002) (Collector's Edition)
Romeo + Juliet
Run Lola Run
Scarface (1932)
Science of Sleep, The
Spider-man
Spider-man 2 (Special Edition)
Superbad
Sweet Sixteen
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Collector's Edition)
Talk to Her
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The
Trial, The
Wicker Man, The (The Director's Cut)
Wind That Shakes the Barley, The
X-Files, The (Special Edition)



Blu-Rays

3:10 to Yuma
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The
Casino Royale
Days of Glory
Elephant

Otis Driftwood

Some good un's there Renn.


Id be interested in

Inland Empire
Man Bites Dog
Sympathy For Mr Vengeance
Jacobs Ladder
Eyes Without A Face


Anything I have listed of interest?

Renn

Not really...but I would take Straw Dogs if it's the one packed with extras? This one...

Renn

I'm looking for Three Colours White and Three Colours Red if anyone has got them?

Miguel_Sanchez

Magic Eight Ball wrote: »

You can download 'Dear Zachary' for free (legally) from the website.

All I can find is a link to buy it off Amazon on the website.

Marty McFly

Heres what id be willing to trade if anyones interested.

Kingdom of Heaven
Gomorrah (still in wrapper) bought two copies by mistake.


Blu Ray

Ong Bak 3
The Forbidden Kingdom

Magic Eight Ball

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Do you have a link? Can't see on on the official site (I could just be blind). Have been meaning to watch it for like a year

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

All I can find is a link to buy it off Amazon on the website.

I just checked out the site there. It would seem they have revoked the free download. It's been a while since I got it.

Renn

Well this didn't really take off!

S.M.B.

Is this not just as illegal as promoting file sharing/downloading?

S.M.B.

S.M.B. wrote: »

Is this not just as illegal as promoting file sharing/downloading?

If it was then gamestop and every other store dealing in second hand DVDs would have been shut down long ago

OutlawPete

S.M.B. wrote: »

Is this not just as illegal as promoting file sharing/downloading?

All DVDs here have been paid for, I presume - how can that be compared with what has not been paid for (ie: illegaly downloaded films).

McLoughlin

Picked a couple of DVDs at random from my shelf and they clearly state "the unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal"

Xtra Vision, Gamestop and everywere else are technically breaking the law every time they sell a used, second hand and ex rental DVD but it isn't enforced because it would impossible to do so.

The is no difference to buying a pirate copy of a DVD or a second hand DVD as the owner of the copyright is recieving no income for his or hers work.

Copyright Law needs a good kick up the bum.

Sad Professor

McLoughlin wrote: »

Picked a couple of DVDs at random from my shelf and they clearly state "the unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal"

Xtra Vision, Gamestop and everywere else are technically breaking the law every time they sell a used, second hand and ex rental DVD but it isn't enforced because it would impossible to do so.

The is no difference to buying a pirate copy of a DVD or a second hand DVD as the owner of the copyright is recieving no income for his or hers work.

Copyright Law needs a good kick up the bum.

No, that's incorrect. Once a genuine copyrighted DVD has been purchased, money is paid to the copyright owners for the private use of that work, and provided you don't pirate it or start showing it in public, the DVD is then yours to do with as you wish. If you want to sell it on Ebay or give it away to someone, it's up to you. You are not breaking copyright law by doing so - rather you are transferring the license to a new user. As long as the original owner paid for the license, the copyright holders don't care what you do with it because they've already been paid.

Renn

Re: showing in public. What's the deal with a few of these small screenings? I see a good few places having a 'film night' but have just brought a dvd and are just projecting it. I'm presuming nobody really cares?

johnny_ultimate

Renn wrote: »

Re: showing in public. What's the deal with a few of these small screenings? I see a good few places having a 'film night' but have just brought a dvd and are just projecting it. I'm presuming nobody really cares?

It strictly is illegal, but I'd be very surprised if anyone called them up on it.

Schools particularly - I don't think anyone's going to go ape**** when an old VHS of the My Left Foot is shown to transition year students :pac:

Sad Professor

Yeah, technically to show a DVD publicly they have to pay for public showing rights.

ztoical

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Schools particularly - I don't think anyone's going to go ape**** when an old VHS of the My Left Foot is shown to transition year students :pac:

There is an exception to the public performance rule if an instructor shows the video in a classroom and the activity is a teaching activity and not recreation or entertainment. This situation would not be considered a violation of copyright law.

What is deemed a Public Performance depends on if "a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its acquaintances" are attending and if the space it's been screened is open to the public [either by paid admission or for free]

S.M.B.

Sad Professor wrote: »

No, that's incorrect. Once a genuine copyrighted DVD has been purchased, money is paid to the copyright owners for the private use of that work, and provided you don't pirate it or start showing it in public, the DVD is then yours to do with as you wish. If you want to sell it on Ebay or give it away to someone, it's up to you. You are not breaking copyright law by doing so - rather you are transferring the license to a new user. As long as the original owner paid for the license, the copyright holders don't care what you do with it because they've already been paid.

Where are you getting all this from?

There is very little difference between the moral issues and legal issues when it comes to file sharing and second hand DVD purchases.



20th Century Fox specifically don't permit the exchanging of their DVDs which is exactly what this thread is aiming to do.

Fysh

S.M.B. wrote: »

Where are you getting all this from?

There is very little difference between the moral issues and legal issues when it comes to file sharing and second hand DVD purchases.



20th Century Fox specifically don't permit the exchanging of their DVDs which is exactly what this thread is aiming to do.

The bits you've highlighted all have the proviso of "unauthorised" as a prefix, because there are certain rights that the licence-holders are not legally able to remove from you.

The American version of this is called the first-sale doctrine. See here. Copyright holders of a certain type hate the idea, for the same reason that they hate the idea of libraries. Doesn't mean they have the power to actually remove that right from you with physical copies, which is why people get so up-in-arms about the way that digital media (via DRM and EULA restrictions) does remove the rights covered under first-sale doctrine.

That I know of there's no hard-and-fast definitive legal version of the principles enshrined in the first-sale doctrine in any EU country (being as it's enshrined in US law, but not elsewhere) but neither is the exercising of those rights demonstrably criminal or unlawful.

Basq

Am in Sligo, but some DVD's for swap of mine are:

Alien Quadrilogy (9 Discs)
Back To The Future Trilogy
Blade Runner: Director's Cut (Region 1 - sealed)
Donnie Darko: Director's Cut (2 Disc)
Lost: Season 1 (6 Disc - Region 1)
Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring (2 Disc)
Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2 Disc)
Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King (2 Disc)
Reservoir Dogs
The Matrix
Starship Troopers
Transformers

Most have been upgraded to Blu-ray and need to shift the DVD copies.

ztoical

S.M.B. wrote: »

20th Century Fox specifically don't permit the exchanging of their DVDs which is exactly what this thread is aiming to do.

Your own highlight says lending which this thread is not aiming to do. People are exchanging DVD's for other DVD's which is not the same as lending. You can legally resell original copies of copyrighted books, DVDs or software, you cannot sell any items that would violate the copyright laws of that item. So, for example, you can sell an original copy of the Star Wars DVD, but you cannot sell a copy of the movie that you taped off of your VCR nor can you sell a copy of the DVD you made. The copyright information at the start of DVD's is a very abbreviated version of copyright law. For example most DVD's in Ireland have a copyright warning claiming that performance in schools is prohibited but Irish copyright law actually has a provision that showing "for the purposes of instruction" (i.e. for educational purposes) does not constitute infringement of the copyright of the work.

elli0t

Renn wrote: »

DVDs

[Rec]
21 Grams

A Room for Romeo Brass
A Very Long Engagement (1 disk)
All Quiet on the Western Front
American Beauty
American History X
Barton Fink
Basketball Diaries, The
Being John Malkovich
Christiane F.
Crash (1996)
Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within
Dementia 13
Dune
Ellie Parker
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Dutch release)
Eyes Without a Face
Funny Ha Ha
Hard Candy
Harsh Times
Hitler - The Rise of Evil
Hostel (Dungeon Deluxe)
Inland Empire
Isle, The
Jacob's Ladder (Box is slightly broken at the top)
Jeremiah Johnson
London to Brighton
Lust, Caution
Machinist, The
Man Bites Dog
Mystic River
Narc
Network
Oldboy
Prestige, The
Red Road
Run Lola Run
Scarface (1932)
Science of Sleep, The
Sweet Sixteen
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Collector's Edition)
Talk to Her
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The
Trial, The
Wicker Man, The (The Director's Cut)
Wind That Shakes the Barley, The
X-Files, The (Special Edition)

still got any of these left??
i cant swap if you want, ill look around the house later see what i have, or i could but some of them off you??

Renn

Hey elli0t, I've thrown these up for sale on adverts but am still looking for trades where possible.

ColumnLunch

In Dublin and would like to trade the following:

X-Men 1
X-Men 2
Veronica Mars Season 1 (Region 1)
Veronica Mars Season 2 (Region 1)

Renn

Have Cinema Paradiso and King Kong on Blu-ray to trade - both still in wrapping, brand new.

Jako8

I have a region 1 version of House of 1000 Corpses and ...And Now For Something Completely Different(Region 2 btw).

Renn

Hmm, really think this thread should have a lot more activity Any ideas on ways to improve it? The only one I can think of is to have an opening post that contains the users willing to trade and a list of the dvds/blu-rays they have to offer. People would need to drop a PM to the person making the opening post with any updates etc.

Just think it's easier/better than the way it's currently set up.

Bonesy.

Am based in Dublin, Sandyford, really need feedback today, am looking for ANY Star Trek Dvds, have lots of DVDs just ask what your looking for, PM me for more details

ButtersSuki

Just discovered this thread today folks, is it still live? Seems awfully quiet in here.....