BOOTLEGS

[Theresa]

I agree with your comments. However, there is such a huge market in 
Asia for this type of thing it would be like boiling the ocean trying 
to stop them. I would love for the studios to figure out some 
technology to make it impossible to reproduce a DVD but I fear there 
is some other means the Asian bootleggers are using. They are getting 
DVDs of films still in the cinemas. My husband's younger brother 
lives in Tokyo and he told me that most of the time a film is out 
about 2-3 days in the theater when all of a sudden you hear through 
the grapevine about being able to get it on DVD in the Philippines. 
The cost about $3 USD. He said also that you don't get any of the 
DVD "extras". And the LOTR's films are not extended versions. That is 
why I wonder if these folks are copying the DVDs or somehow recording 
off of the film at the theater and then stamping out DVDs. Either way 
it is thievery but if it isn't copying the DVDs, how do you catch the 
criminals? Unless the film has an anticopy ability. It is a big 
problem I hope can have a solution deteremined. Or the ticket prices 
are going to rise even higher I fear. And that will make bootlegging 
more prominent. I know when I saw the sneak premier of POA in Tucson, 
the theater folks checked us out for recording devices, even made me 
call someone on my cellphone and show it couldn't take photos so 
maybe they need to do that for all showings. But you are correct that 
something needs to happen.

Theresa
Who loves her new "Non-bootleg" POA DVD but cannot win at the 
Crookshanks/Scabbers game. Stupid little rat. :oP