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Author Topic: Man Stopped On PA Turnpike with Bootleg DVDs and CDS Jonathan M. Crist Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 531 From: Hershey, PA, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 03-03-2004 12:15 PM                     PA State Police seized more than 1,500 bootleg compac discs, DVDS and videocassetes during a routine traffic stop. The suspect admitted he purchased them in New York for $5,000 and was taking them to Pittsburgh where it is estimated they would be worth $300,000.00. The DVD titles included Passion of the Christ, Starsky and Hutch, Twisted, Monster and Lord of the Rings. The police spokesman noted that upon viewing the movies appear to have been taped at a theatre showing. The suspect is being held in Somerset County Prison on an outstanding drug warrant from Alleghany County.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-03-2004 12:28 PM                        Who would pay $200 for a bootleg DVD of a movie that was taped off the screen at a theatre?  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 03-03-2004 12:57 PM                     The current bootleg price from those sellers on the New York streets is DVD's $10.00 and VHS's $5.00 and single disc CD's $5.00 .  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-03-2004 08:17 PM                     I'm with Scott on that statement.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-03-2004 08:41 PM                  Scott and Paul, you underestimate the stupidity of the public... For example, look at what stupit people pay for items on eBay. Ummmm, ME included! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-03-2004 10:40 PM                     Phil, you are absolutely correct. Not related to the topic at hand, but I kinda got a laugh out of a traffic stop by the state troopers in Indiana. Some dude was driving a pickup truck with a load big enough to block the temporary license plate in the rear window. What was supposed to be a routine traffic stop resulted in a 900 pound marijuana bust. The driver of the truck was obviously not the brightest bulb in the box.  |  IP: Logged William Leland III Master Film Handler Posts: 336 From: Charleston, SC, Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-05-2004 03:53 PM                        i watched "Starsky and Hutch" last night at a friends house, he bought a bootleg copy on the way over. he paid $10, it had a DVD box case and a printed copy in color of the poster and the back had a snyopsis. pretty good looking copy sometimes it would skip a few minutes into the movie and the sound would get out of sync, you could see the reel changes.  |  IP: Logged

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