A friend of an aquaintance asked me if I was interested in buying some bootleg copies of recent movies (like, movies that are still in the theaters as we speak). I turned him down.
Anyway, is there some central clearinghouse somewhere, like a website or an 800-number, where one can report movie piracy?
And please don’t say “Call the local police.” The police department in this city has bigger fish to fry. Would the FBI possibly be interested? Does the FBI have a tip line?
Please don’t tell me you would actually report your friend to the police about pirated movies?
You could report the piracy to the MPAA.
First of all, no, it’s not a friend. It’s someone who I know in name only. I’ve never met him, but he did call and introduce himself as “I’m Such-n-Such, a friend of So-n-So…”
Secondly, I’m not calling the police. The police have bigger fish to fry. I want to call some “Stop Movie Piracy” number who can investigate this futher.
And BTW, what we’re talking about here isn’t some teenager with a P2P system downloading movies. We’re talking about a guy who takes a video camera into a theater, records the movies, then burns DVDs of the movies and sells them. Call me a prude, but I think that’s kind-of wrong.
It’s a “friend of an acquaintance” and what’s that got to do with the fact that it’s illegal?
Taking a line from Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment:
Just swap ‘Cable’ for ‘Big-buget film studios’…the concept’s pretty much the same.
Just download a screener of some as-yet-unrealeased film and look for the scroll with a phone number on the bottom to report the pirated movie.
Note to mods: Kidding!
I used to own a video store. If the number hasn’t changed its 1-800-NO-COPIES.
-rainy
PS-don’t expect staggering results
Or just let him get away with it. Unless he’s Jerry Seinfeld the quality sucks so bad that whoever buys those things deserves to have them.