# Bootleg Movies Suck

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootleg-movies-suck/278196>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 5, 2004, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootleg-movies-suck/278196 "2004-12-05T08:30:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootleg-movies-suck/278196/41 "2004-12-09T00:58:21Z")

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> [@Superdude](#):
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> Not to nitpick, but that really doesn’t matter. Your friend steals a DVD player, and you watch movies on it, you’re condoning his actions.

To some extent. But some morally dubious actions are not bad enough to warrant making a huge issue over. A pirated movie may cross that line for you, but it doesn’t for me, or for a lot of other people. It’s worth suggesting renting something next time, but that’s about it.

I’ve downloaded a few bootlegs before, and I determined that they’re generally of such bad quality to not be worth watching. Now I just wait for the DVD.

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**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootleg-movies-suck/278196/42 "2004-12-09T03:19:21Z")

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> [@iamthewalrus(:3=](#):
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> To some extent. But some morally dubious actions are not bad enough to warrant making a huge issue over. A pirated movie may cross that line for you, but it doesn’t for me, or for a lot of other people. It’s worth suggesting renting something next time, but that’s about it.

Did you read **Dex** ’s warning post, **walrus**? Bootlegging is per se illegal, not just “morally dubious”, and it doesn’t matter whether you or a lot of other people condone it or not: as **Dex** stated please very clearly, SDMB policy is _not_ to condone it. Please don’t get this thread locked before I’ve finished with **bienville** …

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