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HILARIOUS: Funnymen Leon Schuster and Kenneth Nkosi in action in the movie 'Mad Buddies'.

Sowetan got word that DVD copies of the movie, which is due out in cinemas country-wide tomorrow, were already out on the streets.

But it turned out the shysters had used the movie's cover on the sleeves of fake DVDs containing video material from crooner Ringo Madlingozi's top albums.

When told that his songs - including Ekhaya, Into Yami, and Sondela Sthandwa - were in the fake DVDs, Madlingozi could only exclaim: "Oh no!"

"You are not serious. I am not aware of such a thing. I am hurt . really, really hurt."

Chief executive of the South African Federation Against Copyright Theft, Corne Guldenpfennig, said stringent security measures had ensured that no fake Mad Buddies DVDs would be on the streets.

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Tue May 21 22:53:02 SAST 2013 ::

Jun 21, 2012

repoman1

Piracy is not theft in South Africa..
Theft is defined in South Africa ‘as the unlawful and intentional appropriation of movable, corporeal property which belongs to or is in possession of another with the intention to permanently deprive the person entitled to the possession of the property of such property
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Jun 21, 2012

Phunyukabemphethe

Piracy is a normal norms in mzansi
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Jun 21, 2012

DJWinner

What happend to copy rights protection? People must right protect their DVDs.

What's up with Ringo now? His songs have been on the street 5 years ago.
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Jun 21, 2012

Nkwe-Tiger

Ringo must be Kidding me... Everybody knows that piracy is happening! And his songs has sold many copies in the streets for many years.
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Jun 21, 2012

Stumaeza

"Oh no!" as if you didn't know idiot
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Jun 21, 2012

DjEp

Why are govenment officials allowed to pocket millions of rands out of our hard eaned taxes, but i cant copy a R70 DVD its called crime? bull dust clean the inside before you think of outside.

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Jun 21, 2012

Bizzabo

Not sure how to feel with this piracy thing anymore. past Saturday I bought an original Anthony Hamilton CD and listened to it Sat, Sunday and Monaday Morning. Took my car in for Service, I removed everything but the CD in the cd player. I only realised tuesday morning that the cd is gone....lucky bugger from the delearship and R149 down the drain.

Piracy? i dont know any more, I could have bought myself 15 AH cds
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Jun 21, 2012

HoiMash69

As long as they DONT HAVE THE ORIGINAL MOVIE, I AM OK
People who buy the fakes will get what they deserve, Ringo singing Sondela to Jail
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Jun 21, 2012

DJWinner

I say government must regulate the stop of selling blank CD/DVD copies. I know that these copies are also used for data and photos, but people can use USB sticks to transfer data from computers.

Look, you can't copy songs to a USB disk and sell the whole thing for R10, USB disk is expensive. People will be forced to buy_ original music/movies.
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Jun 21, 2012

tpaz

@DJWinner , trying to regulate blank CD/DVD copies is like trying to regulate people who make bin plastics...

blank CD/DVD copies are not used only for music but data storage in various industries.

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