| Registered: April 7, 2007 |  Posts: 69 |
| | Posted: | | | | Sort of a follow-up to my recent Duckman/First Wave topic...
I'm relatively naive about these Bootleg DVD's. Does that basically mean somebody recorded it from TV on their DVR, or something, then burns copies and puts them in some cheesy packaging and sells them? And/or someone makes copies of an existing, authentic DVD and sells them?
It would seem risky to do that so blatantly, like from a Website? Are Bootleggers safe if they're selling from a foreign country?
Could I theoretically be fined and imprisoned for buying them, or is that adventure limited to the seller?
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,744 |
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| | Posted: | | | | Yes. Yes. Yes. Not always, but often enough. Yes, and him or her, too.  Bootlegs are unauthorized copies of anything. In the early 1970s, many bootleg LP records began showing up, some at otherwise legitimate retailers. One of the most famous was The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan and The Band. Today, you can find bootleg DVDs of films which opened in movie theaters yesterday... sometimes from a tape made in the audience at the theater. Many, many other ways of producing bootleg DVDs are in use, including extremely professional, authentic-looking counterfits. Theoretically, owning a pirated DVD is illegal. Few people are ever arrested. Good luck! | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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| | Posted: | | | | Another remark: The consequences of buying bootlegs heavily depend on the laws of your country.
In general it's inadvisable to do so. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 28, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,299 |
| | Posted: | | | | Generally speaking, there are basically three kinds of bootlegs:
- Bootlegs of very current movies. Often recorded with a camcorder right in the movie theatre.
- Bootlegs of movies already on DVD. Usually copied from the DVD release, often with extras intact.
- Bootlegs of movies not yet released on DVD. Sometimes copied from releases on other media (VHS, Laserdisc) or copied from a taping of a TV show or other means.
All three categories are generally frowned upon, but the latter category has the most acceptance among mainstream collectors, as bootlegs are the only way to get stuff like Roger Corman's unreleased The Fantastic Four" movie from 1994, Quentin Tarantino's My Best Friend's Birthday, or the Rolling Stones documentary Co**sucker Blues...
This is not to say that these kinds of bootlegs aren't illegal.
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