How to Spot a Bootleg

[Malificus]

Hey I saw a FLCL dvd with all 6 episodes, one japanese with english and chinese subs, and one English/Japanese with english subs
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[Malificus]

Didn't know that's ow it worked.....

[Scintilla]

Yup, um, any version of FLCL that has the whole series on one disc, and <i>especially</i> any version that has Chinese subs, is definitely a bootleg.

[SS5_Majin_Bebi]

One Piece? Good luck on finding an Uncut version of that one and them finishing it...

Doesn't FUNimation eventually release uncut versions of all 4Kids properties?

Yeah, after they make you wait a hellishly long time for it.

[cholinms]

After reading through some of the posts I realized that one of my series that I bought in Korea is Bootleg. The thing is that I got it at the Main PX on Camp Casey. It's an AAFES store and I wouldn't have expected them to be selling bootleg DVD's. But after looking at the box it's Pretty obvious. The series is Ceres Celestial Legend. On the bottom right hand corner of the box is a logo that says fx, it's also all coded with episodes 1-24 on 3 discs.

What getts me is on the back of the set it has this warning:

WARNING: The copyright proprietor has licensed the film(including its sound track) comprized in DVD video disc for home use only. All other rights are reserved. The definition of home use excluding the use of this DVD video disc as location such as clubs, coaches, hospitals, hotels, oil riges, prisons and schools. Any unauthorized copying, editing, exhibition, renting, exchanging, hiring, public performance and/or broadcast of this DVD video disc or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and any such action establishes liability for a civil action and may give rise to criminal prosecution.

on closer inspection the discs don't have DVD-R on the they are only DVD-C003 with the disc number after it. This is even true when looking at the write side of the disc.

The wraning also doesn't flow very well at all and if I'm reading it right it contradicts itself. Does anyone else notice that?

[Shizoumou]

even though this stuff may be boot-leg and may suck you gotta look at the good side of things for one at least u get to see the anime and if the language is original then just learn the language for your personal gratitude





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............i personally oppose of boot-leg stuff so im not against you

[Koiyuki]

Right on, man! I think that, in the end, it hurts the industry a hell of a lot more than people think. I mean, when companies stop seeing the money come in because of pirated copies, or something, they stop bringing 'em. And i'm sure the people that do translations for don load, will get sick of not getting paid. And while i do think the price of anime is too high ($30!? man, i can barely foot $20...), buying bootlegs to stick it to 'em ain't the answer. It takes money out of EVERYONES pockets, not just the 'heartless corperate bastards' they're going againest. The Creator, producer,Animators (who are already dangerously underpaid, BTW.), everybody loses on this deal. If ya don't like the high prices., don't buy it. It worked for the music industry, although i doubt ADV will break down your door because you got a file of Azumanga Daioh in your comp. (But you never know in these times...)

[Camman]

Just found this thread, I'm new to the forums, pretty much new to anime as well. I found AMV through google just like a week ago and I decided to buy some DVD's on ebay, but, after finding this thread, it looks like I may have gotten ripped off

One of them looks okay, I bought Oh My Goddess Vol 1 DVD, looks legit, says Region 1 DVD, haven't got it in the mail yet.

The other I bought looks like I got screwed though, like I said, I just found this thread and I wish I had seen it earlier. I bought Please Teacher "perfect collection" DVDs, and after checking, this is like some made up thing because I don't see any set like this on amazon or anything like that, it says complete series 1-13 on Two DVDs, probably bootleg, right? The guy selling it has like so many auctions for anime's and pretty much all of them are "All Region/Region Free" I'm surprised ebay lets this stuff go on.

So, that's a waste of money, I'll probably end up buying the real "complete collection" one through Amazon now.

[[ZeaL]]

You only get ripped off if you pay the same price you would for "legit" licensed DVDs, but get Hong Kong DVDs. If you get Hong Kong DVDs for SUPER CHEAP ($8 US/disc used to be pretty standard), then it's not getting "ripped off". You get what you pay for. If you have a huge moral dilemma with something like this, then make sure you learn your lesson for the next time.

[Spike_ Spiegel]

I have the A: Just go to Amozon.com! your get what you want without the hassile of having to put up with bootleg copies.