BOOTLEGS

[Theresa]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "faura2002" <faura2002 at y...> 
wrote:
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> --- 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.
My apologies if I made it sound as if these originate in Asia. I just 
know my brother-in-law's friends buy loads of "bootleg" DVDs 
everytime they go to go scuba diving in Guam, Bali and the 
Philipines. So I don't know which locale they actually purchase 
these. They all live in Tokyo. I was just emailing back and forth 
with him and he did confirm the copies are made there and then sold 
for like $1 USD but he has no idea where the bootleggers get the 
originals. And he also said he heard there are markets like that all 
over the world. Shame. 
I understand the ones his friends bought are all in English. He also 
told me that there is something funky about them, as his one friends 
told him that he has to clean his DVD player a lot. Plus the ones 
they have contain no extra things (like interviews or games). I told 
my brother-in-law if I will disown him if he buys any. He said I 
shouldn't worry about it as he would be afraid to be caught. Anyway, 
once again I apologizes if it sounded like that was the only place 
making them. I was just trying to say that I heard there is a HUGE 
market over there and since you mention a mafia connection - now it 
doesn't surprise me. Still I wish there was a way to stop them. I 
guess it is kind of like hackers who as soon as the virus detection 
softwares figure one out - they create another.