The Village Voice: Film: Scanners: Das Bootlegs by Michael Atkinson
Hunting down verboten DVDs and videos on the Internet June 4th, 2004 5:30 PM
ad as it seems, the cinema devout must wait for fickle businessmen to acquire rights, manufacture copies, and release videos in order to get our sweaty mitts on the rare and/or invaluable movies we require—or must we? Picking up the copious slack somewhere outside the letter of the law, bootlegging is alive and well; below are only a prominent handful of toilers in a veritable Wild West of unlicensed giallos, '70s gore, Asian freaks, and forgotten art-house oddities. We're talking DVD-R and VHS copies made from old Japanese laser discs, out-of-print video, broadcast tapes, or sometimes even actual celluloid prints; quality, at an average of $15 a pop, is never guaranteed.
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