# Where to Properly Report Video Pirating **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 31, 2004, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-properly-report-video-pirating/257772 "2004-07-31T21:05:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-properly-report-video-pirating/257772/1 "2004-07-31T21:05:19Z")
Mrs. HeyHomie’s teaching assistant has an acquaintance who has pirated DVD’s of movies that are still out in theaters - _Catwoman_, _Garfield_, and _Shrek II_, for example. He sells them for $5 each. No one really knows how he did it (we assume he snuck into the theater with a video camera & then used a DVD burner at home). Anyway, I want to report this to the proper authorities. Trouble is, I don’t know where to go with this information. Please don’t suggest the local police; there is enough crack, prostitution, murder & rape going on in this town without the PD being bothered by pirated copies of _Garfield_ making their way 'round the ghetto. I doubt the FBI would be interested, either (what with terrorism and all). ISTR reading once that the MPAA or some such organization had set up a website or a hotline where one could report video pirates. Does anyone know about this? What to do, what to do? ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-properly-report-video-pirating/257772/2 "2004-07-31T22:20:30Z")
> [@](#): > > The MPAA maintains an Anti-Piracy Hotline for the reporting of suspected video piracy operations: 1-800-NO-COPYS (1-800-662-6797). from [here](http://www.mpaa.org/anti-piracy/press/96/96_5_24.htm)