My Dvd's are being sold thru a magazine
 

My Dvd's are being sold thru a magazine with out my permission. The prick thats selling them is using a P.O. BOX for mail in orders, what can I do to stop this.

hey what part of tx ya in ? :)

call the feds?

I'm in houston

H-town!

Get a lawyer.

I wish .......but really what can I do?

First:a cease and desist so that he cannot claim further along that he din't know or bought them from somebody else.

After ( because he will ignore your previous notification ) get a lawyer. He will know what to do.

Don't you get the feds or other cops involved. Let the lawyer do that ...:2 cents:

What about the magazine that he is using to advertise the dvd's in?

Man that takes big balls, go get the fucker.

bump.......

If he is using your images in the magazines, he is violating your copyright... It is easier with this route ... Send a cease and decist to the magazine also, letting them know that they are reproducing images that they do not own or don't have a legit authorisation to do so... Magazine will back out in a jiffy..

Also, if the guy reproduces your images for a DVD cover or cover disc, you will get him there .

Yeah they are using 14 dvd box covers in the magazine ad.

fuck that sucks :(

i hope you catch this fucker

what kind of dvd's are they? as long he bought them he has the right to resell them

are these pirated dvd's or something?

mhende6600,

what is your email or icq #?

thank you.

What magazine?
Are they rips or resales?

curious, have you ordered them yourself to verify if he's a reseller or bootlegger/ripper?

If you're distributing or wholesaling, it's very possible that someone you sold to may have had overstock and resold to this guy.

The other possibility is that there's been more than one DVD replication plant (at least one in the LA area) that were caught producing double the quantity of discs that were ordered by the customer. In one case, the customer discovered it because the plant screwed up and shipped the full quantity to the customer, then shipped another 800 units to one of the customer's retailers.

Couple thoughts:

-- If any of the images on the DVD covers reproduced in the magazine are sexually explicit, try telling the magazine that since the discs are not yours, there's no 2257 documentation behind them (i.e., you won't supply it.) That should be enough to make the magazine shit bricks.

-- If the DVDs are registered with the copyright office, statutory copyright infringement is something like $25,000 per infringement.

-- I would definitely order one of the videos and see what you get. If it looks legit, you most likely have a pirating problem (perhaps with your replication house) unless it's possible the guy bought 'em as overstock as I said above.

Hope that helps!

I am still waiting for an explanation as to what is going on

if someone is selling dvd's, and they are legit dvd's, isn't that what you would want? people selling your product?

Is his PO box registered to a individual or a business?

exactly are we talking ripped content or reselling legit DVDs?

thats officially Shenagins and if he is selling interstate it would be then an FBI matter ?? so can you speak with the houston branch of the FBI and get them to look in it

what dvd are you talking about?

C&D to both the individual and magazine.

Get your lawyer on the case to follow up on any money/civl action.

FBI is last resort, and your lawyer will make that call. In the US most cases would never need to get that far.

:2 cents:

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

The dvd content is exclusive content from my web-sites no one has permission to sell besides me

Go postal on him :thumbsup

damnnn :Oh crap

How is he getting the DVDs?

yeah how is he getting dvds.. ive been ripped off by guys like SOBEGIRL, peopel will steal and sell your stuff. You had to get that guy your content somehow ??

he probaly ordered the dvd's from my website

once again, have you ordered them from him to verify he's selling bootlegs? if you're sure he is ripping, then order anyway using another address or POBOX so you have tangible proof that he is doing what you claim.

good luck.

nice! Keep us posted...

what state is the PO box in/

New York

Is it a business PO box or an individual?

business

if he bought the dvd's from you, and is reselling them...then what is the issue?

Using copyrighted box cover graphics for starters..

Reselling for profit as a business without permission could be a big problem..

if in fact someone is actually making new covers, then yes, but I looked over the thread and didn't see the thread starter saying that anywhere

is there some place on your website that says the dvd's can't be resold?

mhende6600, you are being very vague about all this, it makes me if there is something very shady going on

He said they used 14 of his box covers... that's using his copyrighted material..

If ya think it's ok to do that, ask the folks at Vivid..

Are they being sold through the mail or shipped via UPS? If it's through the USPS, then you break Federal laws as well. Go to the post office, talk to the postmaster, ask them to set up a sting where you buy a copy and have it sent to a PO box.

yeah, but I can buy a shitload of vivid dvd's and advertise that I am selling them as a retail outlet....there is nothing wrong with that, that is why they sell them wholesale. I do that now in fact, I have a wholesale account with multiple studios and I have a online shop setup that I sell their dvd's from...i use their boxcovers in the shop, am I breaking any rules? nope...

like I said, I think there is way more to this story