I've been reading some complaints about bootlegging video titles (said) posted on ebay.  It seems to me reporting bootlegging operations to the FBI while riding it out in comfortable stable waiting for them to hunt down criminal and make it safe to sell legitimate said once more is wistful and undeserving common sense.  The FBI's palate is probably full hunting down potential, often-times dangerous and/or would-be terrorists (some home-grown) threatening the nation's security and (stable) safety to live life (sell factory-original said on free web) from mercantile comforting barn as chosen.  Some, if not most, bootleggers are going to slip through proverbial net easily perpetrating frauds on movie-lovers everywhere...unless of course threat of punishment for sin is life-changing - as facilitating them in Guatano-more Bay-style for remainder of miserable excuse for their life(s) where they might be amused (slip of ze tongue...meant to say abused), fed and housed skreiching (SC: for shrieking) before taxpayer's (those of us who actually work for a living) flow (cash or expense).

Consider VHS: have you been in a video rental shop lately?  I mean local variety, not sort via web (as Netflix, Blockbuster, etc.) but about town or city, mom-or-pop or not.  The video market is quickly disappearing, in three to five there won't be VHS said held anywhere, all replaced by once-new technology; same said for DVD in ten.  Do you imagine that said given over to VHS within last thirty or so years will be released or reproduced onto DVD before that too is replaced by newer better medium or that said movies (never in-print to be OOP) once aired on cable or tv once (now rarely) ever made it to VHS before that was replaced by last?  In somewhat perverse way one could reason that some bootleggers are doing wanting public (entertaining notion: lagging memory in art questionable to historical certainty) some good, albeit not cheaply.  As to fact they (bootleggers) undercut flow of real merchandise is not entirely true.  Honest civilian, I purchased so-called bootleg videos before and while not hopping happy about it, find I'm more disturbed over quality of said received and how much flow I paid for poor said than otherwise criminal activity - said (wait 20 or 30 years for view once or again), of course, being unavailable in any other form or feature.  Opposite, rather said - they're competing with more honorable merchants on comparable level only supplying ignorant-buying consumer with less than...disposable...rental, out of sort for such integrally-earned flow.  What the ordinary civilians can't buy (whether seller or buyer), said element criminals have in abundance is not certainly integrity!

Consider profit: it seems to me, if you want to put bootlegger out of business, best, most thorough way of doing so is to make it impossible for him to make profit from misdeed.  When sell is less profitable, he'll look for another line of work/medium to exploit.  Once instructed (class): 'there was no such thing as Crime Prevention...only deterance.'  Common business practice accepts video bootleggers as an unacceptable loss in flow; they attempt to counter this through preventative measures severe enough to restore their means to provide public with (they often perceive as) entertainment while limiting availability of said.  But for everyone they catch, convict, sentence, or detour, how many dozens slip under their radar and continue to (within limits) purportedly not so-preventatively pilfer perfectly unpossessing said purser and available pursuants of flow.  Should they not try unlimited availabilty of said over less for more for less obstructional flow through some less preventative theme, something more available, less complicated...deterance, a solution in three or four years which will marketedly improve everyone's perception of said availibilty and flow over skreiching, not over pain or thru injury but diminutive flow, of everyone's misinterpreted devil familiarly known as bootlegger.