Fastest. Bootlegging. Attempt. Ever.

I have seen some bootlegged videos in my day… from an unknown source.

Sometimes you can get DVD rips, which are just rips of the sample DVD, or sometimes you can get very high quality bootlegged videos with a camera. But most of the time, the sound is crappy, the whole movie does not fit on the screen (because the movie screen is a different size than the video camera prolly), and lighting of the movie can be fairly bad, unless the bootlegger fixed it with contrast and such.

The reason my friend… err… the unknown source, downloads these bootlegged films, is because It costs so much to go see the damn things, and he… or she, doesn’t have money to go see Every movie that he wants. So he… goes and sees movies that he has been wanting to see and supports, like… I think he’s going to go see Spiderman 2.

But this friend has money for not just an internet connection at home, but a high speed one at that? Uh-huh…seems to me like you can pony up $10 once a month or so, and see it. Or, wait a few months, until it gets to some of the budget movie houses.

Having seen a few minutes of a downloaded bootleg movie before (Charlies Angels), I can say that I really don’t see the point at all. If you make the window large enough to really see the damn thing, then the resolution is so crappy as to make it unwatchable. I think I watched about 2 minutes before I stopped, deleted the damn thing, and just went and bought the DVD from the store.

As a former downloader of TV shows, I’m not going to plead innocent to the lure of dowloading free stuff. But now that studio’s, and networks are getting smarter, and releasing tv series onto DVD in a somewhat more timely manner, I don’t even bother with that anymore. In fact, for every show I downloaded, I went out and bought the DVD box set, I’d rather have a much higher quality item, that I can watch on my TV, than something I have to boot up my laptop to watch.