Such products have been sold since the first commercially available tape deck and VCR rolled off the conveyorbelt.

Before computers, CD-R and DVD+/-R, bootlegging still existed but not at such a scale as it does now. "Back then" it was hard work and time consuming. These days it's a couple of mouse clicks and a coffee break. There is no such thing as "3rd generation copy" and crappy images anymore. Today the image/sound quality will be the same as the original.

I trust PTravel to know the law on Intellectual property but I can say that as someone who has produced intellectual property on CD and doing it now via camera, I am royally piffed off at those who have been bootlegging CDs with songs I wrote the words for or my website designs or my photography. And if they also make money on it - it's even worse.

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