How to Spot a Bootleg

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu May 20, 2004 5:59 pm

Hm, after looking at those pictures, I think you must have gotten HK bootlegs or something (which would explain the Chinese). It's not FX if it doesn't have the FX logo on the spine and back of the box. Though the <i>front</i> of the box does look almost exactly the same.

Voices_Of_Ryan · Post by **Voices_Of_Ryan** » Sun May 23, 2004 2:33 pm

m00nL355 wrote:regular videotapes (VHS i think they're called )...

You just made me feel really, really old

.

But yeah, bootlegs are pretty bad investments 0o, though to be honest, it would be interesting to see just how many people on the org use bootlegs as their mainsource.

shai-hulud · Post by **shai-hulud** » Wed May 26, 2004 7:06 pm

Knù¢klés wrote: lies lies lies... i just want every1 to be weary not to get stuck with these cheap peices of c+r-a=p

They may have just scanned and copied the original packaging which had all the details that you describe.

allyourbasearebelongtous · Post by **allyourbasearebelongtous** » Fri May 28, 2004 12:53 am

Another thing to watch out for, complete ineptness. E.g. If you look at another auction by the 1st E-Bay Bootlegger discussed, he totally screws up his description of Cowboy Bebop. He says that the people who left Earth are called Cowboy Bebops and that Jet is a cyborg. Wtf. If you're going to be a criminal, at least don't be stupid too.

madmag9999 · Post by **madmag9999** » Fri May 28, 2004 10:10 pm

only stupid ppl sell bootlegs, and even stupider ppl buy them

Knù¢klés · Post by **Knù¢klés** » Sat May 29, 2004 6:59 am

madmag9999 wrote:only stupid ppl sell bootlegs, and even stupider ppl buy them

and really really stupid get tricked into buying them.

Dustbunny Fish · Post by **Dustbunny Fish** » Sat May 29, 2004 4:19 pm

Ways to spot a bootleg.....

They just say Anime DVD on them. I had a bootleg copy of Spirited Away once that said that, and the cover DVD art just looked...odd.
If, when watching the anime with subs and it seems really poorly translated and there are typos in the subs.
If you get it from Hong Kong
If you get it from some run down shop with a seedy clerk.

madmag9999 · Post by **madmag9999** » Sat May 29, 2004 4:23 pm

my friend once got a bootleg where the subs ran off the screen. it was so funny

J-0080 · Post by **J-0080** » Sat May 29, 2004 5:46 pm

Dustbunny Fish wrote: I had a bootleg copy of Spirited Away once that said that, and the cover DVD art just looked...odd.

I've noticed that a lot of bootleggers use the pictures off of wallscrolls.

Dustbunny Fish wrote:[*]If, when watching the anime with subs and it seems really poorly translated and there are typos in the subs.

Of course, that can occur even in the official R1 release too.

shai-hulud · Post by **shai-hulud** » Sat May 29, 2004 7:06 pm

I remember one bootleg where the synopsis sounded like a magazine review, which I assume it was.