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Greg Marshall
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 612
From: Nashville, TN USA
Registered: Sep 2008
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posted July 06, 2013 06:20 PM
In Memphis, TN, a lady was arrested for recording "DESPICABLE ME 2". She had cut out a hole in her popcorn container for the lens of her camera to record the film. Police searched her home, and found over 11,000 copies of pirated films, various hard drives with downloaded illegal copies, and numerous recording devices. Her bail: $25,000. I'm sure she has that easily, under the mattress. SURELY, the FBI will become involved in this.
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Hugh Thompson Scott
Film God
Posts: 3063
From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted July 14, 2013 05:12 PM
A very valid point Michael. we all have in our collections, prints
we should'nt have, like I SAID BEFORE, there are many recording artists, that have been RIPPED OFF, by the self same studios, that are now being hurt, TOUGH, the great Louis Armstrong for one
was cruelly robbed by them ( and I am not coloured) but I'm
well annoyed that the man was treated so badly, as were many others, to this day, so sod 'em! They have ruled the roost too long,
with their so called contracts to talented folk, screw 'em.They have
brought it on themselves.
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Ernie Zahn
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 540
From: Greenwich, CT, USA
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted July 16, 2013 11:24 AM
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I believe the main subject we are talking about here is piracy of current motion pictures that are showing in theatres, being copied by recording devices off the screen and sold on the black market for profit for the individuals, as well as the possibility of funding other criminial activities, such as terrorist acts. No, I'm not being sarcastic, I'm being real. This is a far cry from a 16mm print sold from collector to collector. BIG DIFFERENCE!
Greg, my asking if you were being sarcastic was not on the difference between 16mm prints and telesync bootlegs. It was regarding your statement that bootleg movies fund terrorism.
I won't dispute the notion that the sale of black market items may fund further illegal activities. I have no information to dispute it and it seems like a realistic notion.
How exactly do plan to prove that BitTorrent funds terrorism? The highest volume of bootlegs (telesync, DVD/BluRay rips, and DVR rips) are put into consumer hands through torrenting. Simply because peer to peer networks are fast and pervasive. How does a free pirated download fund terrorism? Perhaps you misspoke when you said "download." Perhaps you were generalizing?
I don't condone piracy in principle and there are many ways to state how and why it shouldn't be done. I've never heard any claim, read any article, discussed with any politician, attended any panel that would substantiate the idea that it (free piracy) funds terrorism.
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Christian Bjorgen
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 996
From: Kvinnherad, Norway
Registered: Oct 2009
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posted July 16, 2013 11:57 AM
That sort of pirated film is called a TC or Telecine in online markets. Here's a short list of the "online formats":
TC / Telecine: Recorded directly from the screen, with audio recorded with the cam microphone.
TS / TeleSync: Video recorded from screen, but synchronized with a separate audio source, i.e. headphone jack in the seats.
R5/R6: Means "Region 5" or "Region 6". Video comes from pirated, high-quality DVDs from Russia or China, and overdubbed with English TS or TC audio.
DVDScr: Ripped/copied from a screener DVD, usually has watermarks and/or sections of black-and-white to make it less attractive for pirate markets.
DVDRip: Ripped from legitimate store-bought DVD.
BRRip: As above, but from BluRay. Usually has 720p or 1080p designation in the filename aswell.
XviD, H.264, DivX etc. = the various video codecs used.
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