Apparently someone is selling Harmy’s Despecialized versions at Wizard World St. Louis Comic Con.
$30 a piece
While this is irritating, it’s kind of par for the course with conventions. You could report the seller to the people in charge of vendors at the convention, but in my experience, they’ll pretty much just ignore you. They’re pretty small fish to fry in the grand scheme of things. Bootlegs at conventions have been going on since the earliest days of comic con.
Even though this could be risky, perhaps you could call the police and have them arrest the bootleggers as that would put a stop to it.
What can the cops do, he is selling a fan edit yes its bad but not police bad.
Technically you could say it was stolen from Harmy.
Then at that point its harassing the police
No its not, because bootlegging is a crime that those who sell the editions are committing.
All true, but the police really won’t be able to do much as it’s digital piracy. They’ll tell you it’s the copyright holder’s responsibility to take legal action against the bootleggers or the website selling the item. If it was physically stolen by trespass or extortion or violence then they might be interested.
Our only real options here are letting the rights holder know their property has been bootlegged or reporting the seller to eBay.
So basically, our only option is reporting them to eBay.