Gillian here:
We've become known as the piracy police around here. We are determined not to fall to the temptation to buy from Peru's abundance of pirated movies. I can't help but think - why do we feel so entitled to own them? I will admit being extremely tempted to buy "bamba" (pirated movies). They can cost as little as 4 soles (just over a dollar!). We've seldom bought movies for ourselves, but, yes we do have a good collection of original DVD's that have mostly come to us as gifts from relatives in the States. But in South Carolina, we also got by with borrowing movies from friends, the library, renting on occasion, or going without.
So now we are delighted to discover over the past months that we have two local solutions to feed our love of movies withOUT participating in bamba. 1. Our local DVD Drugstore rents out original DVD's for 7 Soles (A little over $3.00), and they have a great selection. 2. The boys' school rents them out for 5 soles (about $2.50), though they have a limited selection of donated movies. We don't get to own the movies, but we can enjoy them as a special family date night from time to time, AND we can support a local business doing honest work OR the boys' school. YAY!
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