I used to have about 10 or so bootleg DVDs of movies from the early 2010s with a menu like this as well (Frozen, The Lego Movie, The Lorax, etc.). The recordings were in very low quality, being recorded straight from a movie theater. I also remember at least one of the discs having a link to a website on it that was displayed as the movie would play, but I can't remember what it was. The company was likely one that encourages the production of these bootlegs.
I have The secret life of pets movie on my computer witch has a link to some website when the movie plays.
Do you know what the name of the website was? It is likely the same as the one I saw on one of my discs.
I used to have about 10 or so bootleg DVDs of movies from the early 2010s with a menu like this as well (Frozen, The Lego Movie, The Lorax, etc.). The recordings were in very low quality, being recorded straight from a movie theater. I also remember at least one of the discs having a link to a website on it that was displayed as the movie would play, but I can't remember what it was. The company was likely one that encourages the production of these bootlegs.
I have The secret life of pets movie on my computer witch has a link to some website when the movie plays.
Cam recordings are very common. The links at the start would be the sites the cam rips were distributed from, they are usually russian or from other eastern countries. In those countries, the average income of the citizens is not sufficient to pay for movies, so they will distribute the movie recorded from a camera hidden in a bag and taken into a cinema. It is nothing special, the links are not important. This happens with every single movie that gets released. The only real benefit of cam rips are seeing like cinema ads or audience reactions, otherwise, by the time of a home media or streaming release of the movie being pirated, the cam rips are forgotten about, but they are almost always the very first pirated copies of new movies that come out. Some times, they also come from countries where films released earlier than other countries. I actually did watch The Lego Movie as a cam rip, it had no additional scenes, but the scene where WildStyle meets Emmett was cut weirdly and a lot shorter than the version I watched afterwards.
One of my most prized possessions is a giant dvd binder full of bootleg movies my dad collected and or made. I want to one day go through and archive them. The best one I remember is a theater recording of the cgi clone wars film with the video sped up in a rather comedic fashion.
my brother has a bootleg chinese copy of shrek from a nickelodeon dvd bundle on fb marketplace lmao. theres a ton of weird mistranlated/misspelt english on the cover. ill annoy him to let me take a photo of it tomorrow
My father made a lot of bootleg DVDs for my sister and I, and we still have one, which he called "Aristo Cats Special Edition" (special because he made it). Despite being the english version, he used the dutch cover, because he is dutch. He mostly made bootleg disney DVDs, including the Herbie movies, as well as a Harry Potter DVD, which I recall had some weird streching of the footage which made everybody's head look really long. This was before XtraVision and HMV closed down here (I believe HMV came back in some way) and people jokingly blamed him, since the reasons for their closure were supposedly piracy. When the local XtraVision shop in my town closed, the owner reopened it with the name "SuperVision" (an obvious knockoff name) and ironically, sold mostly bootleg and knockoff movies. They lasted only a few months before also closing.
Also, not related to DVDs, in my town, in the 80s, there used to be a bunch of VHS shops, and one of them used to sell a lot of bootlegs. They would rent a copy of the real tape from another shop, duplicate it, then give back the rented copy and sell the dupes for less than half the price of the real tapes, needless to say, the shop was eventually shut down by an garda siochána, and the left over stock was basically given away, but I actually found a bootleg tape made by that shop, and I consider it a piece of local history.
My father made a lot of bootleg DVDs for my sister and I, and we still have one, which he called "Aristo Cats Special Edition" (special because he made it). Despite being the english version, he used the dutch cover, because he is dutch. He mostly made bootleg disney DVDs, including the Herbie movies, as well as a Harry Potter DVD, which I recall had some weird streching of the footage which made everybody's head look really long. This was before XtraVision and HMV closed down here (I believe HMV came back in some way) and people jokingly blamed him, since the reasons for their closure were supposedly piracy. When the local XtraVision shop in my town closed, the owner reopened it with the name "SuperVision" (an obvious knockoff name) and ironically, sold mostly bootleg and knockoff movies. They lasted only a few months before also closing.
Also, not related to DVDs, in my town, in the 80s, there used to be a bunch of VHS shops, and one of them used to sell a lot of bootlegs. They would rent a copy of the real tape from another shop, duplicate it, then give back the rented copy and sell the dupes for less than half the price of the real tapes, needless to say, the shop was eventually shut down by an garda siochána, and the left over stock was basically given away, but I actually found a bootleg tape made by that shop, and I consider it a piece of local history.
I remember one time I went to Sydney Chinatown back in the early 2010s and there was this weird store full of jpop/K-pop merch and in the back room they just had a bunch of bootleg anime for $1 each. I bought a bunch of them only to come back from my trip and find out every one of them was hentai/seinen.
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Is anybody else unable to upload files anywhere on this site? Or have I just been like blocked from doing it, for whatever reason? I tried to upload the Aristo Cats bootleg, the VHS I mentioned, as well as a DVD to VHS bootleg I felt like sharing, but cannot.
Is anybody else unable to upload files anywhere on this site? Or have I just been like blocked from doing it, for whatever reason? I tried to upload the Aristo Cats bootleg, the VHS I mentioned, as well as a DVD to VHS bootleg I felt like sharing, but cannot.
Is anybody else unable to upload files anywhere on this site? Or have I just been like blocked from doing it, for whatever reason? I tried to upload the Aristo Cats bootleg, the VHS I mentioned, as well as a DVD to VHS bootleg I felt like sharing, but cannot.
It's happening to me too
yeah same. I'm gonna make a thread in the help channel about it