yukichigaiI donated some spindles of burned media and programs to Salvation Army expecting they'd throw 'em out. They're selling 'em for $3.
Thrift stores are getting in on the piracy game I guess. Can't say I'm disappointed.
Look, I might have better copies now, but if someone wants to spend $3 and get the first 150+ episodes of Bleach and Naruto burned to KDVD I'd say they're gonna walk away happy with the deal they got.
amniotic druidThis is hilarious. If I had some spare cash (and a lot of spare time), I’d absolutely love to do something like this. I’d love to do some modern blockbuster movies.
My man.
The thought of burning some BD5s filled with a bunch of new series and/or movies fills me with a joy that's hard to describe. Getting stuff for myself is one thing. Making it easily accessible for others is just a different level entirely. I'd love to know that I've given someone down on their luck countless hours of entertainment for a $3 investment.
Hurculina Drubmanokay correct me if I’m wrong but this is definitely illegal, right?
CornpopPretty unenforceable/unlikely to ever even get caught though.
I know, I just think it’s funny. if I set up a table and started selling them they’d shut me down pretty quick though
Who would? You think reps from the music and film industries would shut you down for selling stacks of CDs from a table? Lol
the cops man. probably charge me with loitering
Ah yes the cops, always shutting down those pesky garage and yard sales. Bastards.
I didn’t mean on my own property jesus
I’m talking about those rappers who sell their CDs on the street corner.
Oh right. Cuz they’re always getting busted, aren’t they? Lol
Broward county florida, all the time. cops have nothing else to do apparently
Seattle, too. As far as I can tell from my time spent there during multiple years of PAX the only thing the Seattle cops do is harass the homeless and local rappers trying to push their demo albums.
Rapper on the street corner: hey man, you want to get some of this?
I’ve bought more than one lol
If I can get it for under $10, I actually find a lot of entertainment value in these Lol
squid_slimeIn the UK back in the earish DVD days I remember this dud would turn up at my uncles work and sell a fuck a ton of discs, he got arrested in a sting.
police have way too much free time
so they want the stolen meat to go in the trash?
Lol plot twist
But really its crazy how many sting operations take place where I live and for real mediocre shit, like police undercover selling weed.
So pathetic…
A friend of mine did that with VHS and 8tracks back in the day and got busted by the FBI.
Holy fuck🤣🤣🤣 I thought stings were reserved for violent criminals
Its due to increasing budgets and lazy policing.
The stolen meat one really annoyed me as its targeting the working class while inflation is in full effect
Yeah. We’re just so far away from the point that cracking down on illegal food should be a priority that I find that idea completely insane
A Wild Mimic appears!i agree that it shouldn’t be a police priority; but i would still not visit a pub using black market meat… i like cheap food, but i love my intestines more lol
No I wouldn’t either and the place was a dive but the meat wasn’t being sold for the pub to serve, police went in there trying to sell to anyone that would buy, the land lady just happened to be the one interested in buying the stollen meat
Yup. I’ve volunteered at a couple thrift stores, and we’d just toss stuff like this.
SA isn’t a thrift store, it’s a for-profit corporation. Look at what the CEO was paid.
What thrift store isn’t nowadays.
nocturneThere are three in my town of <9,000 people. One benefits the homeless shelter, one helps fund things for people living in the old folks home, and the other is for disabled veterans. I know the employees make money (one of them is 100% volunteers) but no one is getting rich from them.
“Thrift” doesn’t mean it’s a charity either, take for example Value Village. There are also a ton of “consignment stores” that are for profit businesses and will get real mad if you call them a thrift store.
Well yeah, consignment stores and thrift stores are inherently different business models. A thrift store sells donated goods. A consignment store offers a storefront for items that people want to sell. Sort of like Facebook marketplace or eBay. The consignment skims off the top for operating costs and service fees, and then sends the rest of the money to the actual seller.
Say you have an item that you know is worth $250 on the market, but you don’t have an easy way of selling it yourself. You take it to a consignment store, and they add it to their shelf listed at $250. It sells. The consignment store takes $25 from the sale, and sends you the remaining $225. You made less than if you would have sold it yourself, but you were willing to pay $25 for the convenience and foot traffic of a storefront. Because again, you didn’t have the means to list it yourself, so you found a place that was willing to list it for you.
Vendetta9076Maybe not? Libraries can lend out pirated media for reasons. Maybe charities can sell it.
Edit: I’m getting downvoted and I’m not sure why. Maybe it was just my library that did this?
wait really. that’s cool
Its not everywhere, and I’m sure the corps are trying to chip away at it but yeah.
tacosanonymousI’ve never heard of this.
Why Librarians Care about Intellectual Property Law and Policy
Copyright as a balancing of interests Carol C. Henderson, former Executive Director Washington Office, American Library Association The roles libraries play are shaped by copyright law. Copyright in its origins and in the way it has evolved in the United States has always involved a balancing of interests. Authors and creators are granted certain monopoly rights in order that an adequate return stimulate the creation of intellectual works, but those rights are limited in various ways in order, in the Constitution's phrase, to promote science and the useful arts.
cm0002I haven’t seen a library with software to lend since I was a kid, I used to go and get a ton of games n random software and rip them all lmao. But there was a lawsuit from software companies (ofc, can’t have any fun in this world) at some point in the mid 2000s against a library district and it all got pulled. The lawsuit was based on the fact they had to share non-transferable, non-shareable license keys to make it work, which is why we still have movies and console games at libraries, because there’s no license key involved.
WrenYep, loaning physical media with software isn’t a thing anymore for that exact reason. Any software or digital platform we offer (ancestry, language learning, ebooks, etc) we either have a ‘one copy one user’ licence which essentially functions like a physical copy, we’re directly paying for each time something is accessed, or we have a subscription specifically made for libraries. We can loan out things like Kindles loaded with ebooks that we’ve purchased, but there’s still a grey area with loaning out a tablet that has the major streaming services installed (with accounts paid for by the library), so we haven’t gone down that route yet
Dude never donate to SA. They’re profit driven religious wackadoos who have no idea how to run anything. The charity angle is just another religious scam.
SharkMommy🦈This they actually fund against Queer peoples rights
For religious people they're sure eager to sell used "personal massagers" for $10.
Lol, my friend is always in the lookout for “pro-life” thrift stores, apparently they have the best deals. (BC)
They often have no damn clue what they're selling and clearly just make up prices on the spot. I've flipped a few things for a 500%+ profit from the super-ultra-Jesus-ey thrift stores. Computer hardware in particular is something they just don't grasp the value of. If you ever need a managed switch or a spare monitor, check the thrift stores.
Got Wii Sports for $1 at a thrift store like that, whereas their glassware was usually significantly above comparable eBay listings (despite the labels sometimes claiming otherwise). Unfortunately, at least where I live, the odds of computer stuff showing up are few and far between.
Helix 🧬glassware was usually significantly above comparable eBay listings (despite the labels sometimes claiming otherwise)
They have stickers which tell you they’re cheaper than eBay when that’s actually not the case? Isn’t that illegal?
ehhh, just a bit illegal
entropicdriftIt’s only false advertising if they can’t find a single ebay listing with a higher price.
At least, if they worded it carefully like, “cheaper than ebay!”
DeceptichumHere in my country every op shop is overpriced and you never find a bargain.
Germany?
Also, frankly, here in the Reno area it’s basically impossible to find a thrift store that’s not run by incredibly religious wackadoos.
Makes sense. Nevada’s got a certain reputation because of Vegas, but folks forget about how it’s also next to/inside the Mormon belt.
BaldProphetLatter-day Saints were some of the earliest white settlers of Las Vegas, if you can believe it.
With the amount of Mormon churches in Vegas I believe it.
You guys don’t have Value Village/Savers?
FlaxI love how when Christians aren’t charitable they are called hypocrites and when they are people complain that they are “religious wackadoos”, lol.
You can act according to your faith and still be a nice and accepting human being. Doing charity only as a promotional device would be a negative for conscience at least.
It’s not “only as a promotional device”, though.
I mean I guess they’re using the “charity” to generate personal cash as well
SA is anti-LGBTQ. They will deny them services.
This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥Give them disks of gay and trans porn, got it.