I completely trust them to handle this with responsibility, integrity, and honesty. Just like how I trust them to handle the ever-growing mass of trash, scams, fraud, fakes, etc that are completely choking the life out of their platform.
Seriously, I had to have a long talk with a friend about this.
He was trying to find a DVD of all the Studio Ghibli movies. I advised that he was unlikely to find it on DVD, and linked him to a relatively affordable Bluray set with all the films.
He kept sending me these “DVD sets” of Ghibli films on Amazon. I kept pointing out how they all looked sketchy, and if you checked the reviews, all of them would have reviews that admitted it was clear these were bootleg DVDs. Some of these were more costly than the official Bluray set. They were all sold and distributed by those weird, random-assortment-of-letters companies Amazon is known for.
I literally said to him “Dude, that’s just piracy with extra steps and you’re paying a pirate to pirate it for you.” Don’t pay pirates for bootleg media. A real, respectable pirate will just hand it to your for free.
The point being it was super easy to find numerous copies of bootlegged media on Amazon. You would think studios like Ghibli would be making a bigger stink about how Amazon is facilitating for-profit piracy. Amazon gets a cut of each sale, too, which means they’re also liable for copyright damages, which is up to $150,000 for each work infringed.
And that’s why I prefer eBay much of the time. They have good buyer protection, seller reputation actually matters, and I expect people to be trying to cheat so I’m better at finding decent products. Also, quality selection is generally better.
I only buy from Amazon if I want a specific, popular thing, and even then only if Amazon has the better price (which isn’t necessarily true anymore).
Yeah. I up a DVD set on Amazon and they were fairly believable except for the party where they wouldn’t actually play on i.e. a PlayStation, and the disc title when inserted into a PC ended in .ISO
Japanese studios’ relationship with piracy has never been the same as that of American studios. They almost never sue themselves, although their foreign subsidiaries and licensees may. So it’s no surprise that Ghibli has never sued Amazon. A bit more surprising that Disney never has, assuming they still hold some licenses, but maybe they don’t consider those movies an important enough part of their portfolio for proactive monitoring.
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