jcpo wrote: "The good news is that I got it on DVD via Amazon for under $7.00 ! Cheers!"
As did I. My local bricks'n'mortar video rental had the VHS, and I'd had Topsy on my Netflix Queue, in the "When Netflix gets it" status. (I'd guessed that that status was Netflix way of sizing the demand for an obscure title they didn't have yet: when it rose above a certain minimum, they'd procure it.
Bootleg copy? Actually, Grey Market. The fine print on my box says: "Liscensed for Sale in Canada Only". I'm in the USA, as was the vendor selling through Amazon.
Does a grey market copy bother me? If Atlantic Alliance and October Films can't be bothered to tell us why they can manage to liscense for Canada and not the USA, I won't tell them how I got my copy, bought and delievered in this country.
I will relay this story about Amazon's "used copies" which was told a few months back on an NPR show by a writer who had struggled to get his first book to market. He googled his title a week or two before its release date, and Amazon was among the hits. There he found he could buy a used copy for 50% of list price. Used copy? The book hadn't even been released yet! Clearly a fall-off-the-back-of-a-truck pipeline to Amazon's side-window market.
That aside, I enjoyed the heck out of my DVD which arrived yesterday.
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