[Vigilanteman]

True story from when I lived in Japan, one of the most lucrative movie markets in the world. The tickets are quite pricey, but they really don't care what food you bring in because their concession stand is priced like the local 7-11.

Anyway, foreigners were always first in line to the premiers. And bootleg copies of the movie (complete with coughing or audience noise on the soundtrack) were always showing up in on the streets of Seoul, Hong Kong, Djkarta, Bangkok, Chennai and Beijing within 24 hours later. How do you suppose that happened?

[a fool in paradise]

Bootlegs of theatrical releases are floating around right now thanks to the round of Hollywood awards screeners that have been leaked to the public.

Movie bootlegging is an inside job.

Rank amateurs film it off the screen. Even back “in the day”.