BOOTLEGS

[faura2002]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Theresa" <anmsmom333 at c...> wrote:
> 
> 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....


We don't have the exclusive "rights" in bootlegging. As far as i 
know, bootlegged foreign films do not originate from here, they are 
smuggled in, or at least the "master" copy. Just try watching one, 
especially if it was taken inside a cinemahouse, and you'll hear a 
completely different language (sometimes even English), not ours. And 
most of them have subtitles in Chinese script or Bahasa. They are 
made by some kind of mafia and then smuggled throughout Asia.


faura
from manila.