<div>A film would make its debut on television, and somebody would record the broadcast and pass the tape around to friends and family. But, in addition to fans and collectors, the market for selling bootlegs exploded. It wasn't uncommon to walk through say, a flea mall, and find a booth where a dude was selling copies of dozens of films. Film studios cracked down on the process, famously suing Sony for manufacturing devices that facilitated copyright infringement. But they couldn't stem the tide of infringing tapes.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>bootleg movies download</div><div></div><div>DOWNLOAD:
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Generally unlike the more common DVD rip or screener recording methods which involve the duplication of officially distributed media, cam versions are original clandestine recordings made in movie theaters.</div><div></div><div></div><div>In an attempt to impede this practice (as well as curb the smuggling in of non-theater food), some establishments now ban customers from carrying bags or other containers into theaters. As an additional form of deterrent, theaters may equip ushers with night vision goggles to discreetly catch a bootlegger in the act of recording.[1] With the improvement in camera quality and storage space of smartphones, it is now somewhat more difficult to detect when a person is recording in a movie theater.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Around the start of the millennium, many first time camera recordings originated from Malaysia, recognizable by the burn-in Malay subtitles. VCDs often appeared 2 to 3 days before the theatrical release. In some cases, they were even available online 3 months before release. Robert Krulwich sees two possibilities as the main reason for such early availability of these illicit recordings. 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In this time, we have special pieces of glass, which we can command to show us dreams, whenever we please. Some dreams are the same every time, and are called movies. Some, you can change the outcome of, by controlling them with movements of your hands. These are called games. Both types of dreams are made by people.</div><div></div><div></div><div>But then some other people, who had made many movies before, saw that many people wanted to experience this dream, that the first group of people intended to make. However, the pope forbids us from making dreams called by the same names as any which have already been made by others. Yes, the pope. That's right, In Holy Rome. Indeed. The very same.</div><div></div><div></div><div>One of the sellers is gone (account inactive now), the other won't respond to me (yet). I have purchased a copy of each item (again) from legit sellers. The movie collection direct from Amazon, which arrived and I was able to compare them and prove the bootleg was definitely not original by comparing the discs themselves. Waiting on the Complete series from TCM Shop. eBay will not listen to my concerns, technically I can't prove they are bootlegs without sending them to eBay - pictures and words from me just don't seem to be enough, plus - they just don't care. Complain within the return window or you're stuck! In the end, if I can't get my credit card company to do a chargeback I'll be out $150 for these two items. Sad way to learn a lesson!</div><div></div><div></div><div>I have almost been burned in the past but cancelled the transactions after learning it was too good to be true when something seemed off. For example, the collected works of Hayao Miyazaki cannot be found legitimately at anything close to reasonable prices. You're getting a bootleg if you buy that in almost all cases. In the case of Perry Mason, the prices were close to retail so nothing seemed off initially, even the sellers had been around a while. Some sellers are selling bootlegs and don't even know it, their distributors are doing it.</div><div></div><div></div><div>So I got a bootleg, so what? Well the big problem is that I don't really like supporting piracy, and that's annoying, but even more of a problem is that the quality of the discs is much lower. Pirates will rip the originals, reproduce the packaging (and they are getting very good at it), and produce single-layer DVDs with highly compressed versions of the original video. Playback issues, compression artifacts, etc. are very common. It is quite noticeable to the naked eye and can affect your viewing experience substantially.</div><div></div><div></div><div>- The packaging says the discs are dual layer. But the bootleg discs are single layer 4.2 GBytes. The legit discs are 6.44 GBytes, and are confirmed to be dual layer like packaging says. The video files on the bootleg have been re-compressed to fit within 4.2 GBytes, and it is noticeable on playback.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I haven't received the Perry Mason The Complete Series set I bought from TCM Shop yet so I haven't been able to compare, but the discs in the set from eBay are NOT copy protected, are region free, are single layer - all the telltale signs that they are bootleg. I may post to this thread again after I get to compare them.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Now note - the packaging from the bootleggers is quite convincing, even the silkscreening on the discs looks the same, and the discs are pressed, not burned! So it is very hard to tell from visual inspection. As I said, you almost need the legit version to compare them to, in order to be sure.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Another interesting note is that illegal DVD production and distribution has often been found to be more profitable to organized crime funding than illegal drug distribution, and organized crime around the world is often funded more by pirate media than by drug trafficking. So it's important to think about where your money might be going when you end up with a bootleg - it might not "just" be some yahoos without ethics trying to make a buck, it could be some seriously bad people getting funded.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The DVDs sell for as low as a dollar or less. The more expensive ones, which cost $2 to $6 USD, are Bluray quality or complete sets of television series. 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