I don't mean to be bad, really....

I don't pirate films. I just don't. I get a fair amount of **** for it too. Folks swing over and take a gander at my DVD collection and say "Dude, look at all that money you waste, when you can egt all this **** for free." To which I respond, "Ah, but it isn't for free, and besides, I like the extras."

Really, as I have stated in some of the piracy threads, I just don't participate in illegal activites that involve theft of other people's art/property. But, alas, Friday night a friend of mine stopped in and set down a DVD-R on the table.

"Sedai, me old chap" he says, "That there is copy of the Episode III DVD."

"But, good sir, I have already been offered that bootleg, and the quality is terrible, and that time-code in the corner is annoying. I'll wait for the real thing."

"Oh no, good Sedai, this almost the real thing. It's in widescreen, at close to DVD resolution, and even has a DVD menu and working chapter pages."

"Nonsense!" Says I.

But, the guy pops it in my player and there it is. A DVD menu. He fires up chapter II, which skips the roll-up, and there is coruscant, two jedi fighters zipping along, in widescreen, in stereo, flawless.

That was it. I took the contraband, and I watched it. Numerous times. It's perfect. How do I have this? He wouldn't tell me how he got it. I just....can't .....not watch it!!

Woe is me...

Anyone else run across this thing?

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UP: You won't die in 7 days from this.
DOWN: That guy now owns your soul.

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Nope, I haven't run across it, but then again, I wasn't looking for it and no one envies my DVD collection ... not even me.

Sedai, I have every confidence that, when Episode III does come out on DVD, you will buy it (if only for the added features, etc.). I am not worried for your soul ... or who owns it. Unless that guy comes over tomorrow with, like, War of the Worlds or something....

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i haven't come across this either, but i'm glad that you were able to get one...

SINNER!!!!!!!!!

Nah, i've done this once before.... with the remake of Dawn of the Dead.. but they theater people wouldn't let me in, and they have ushers at the doors, so you couldn't sneak it.. the copy I was given was the same as yours, DVD menu, working everything and in glorious widescreen... I know it was wrong, but sometimes my friend even the most wize sheep stray...

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Never have i ever had an illegal dvd movie...

btw, your friend got the stars wars movie from limewire.....it isnt that hard.

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Δύο άτομα. Μια μάχη. Κανένας συμβιβασμός.

You have the right to remain silent...

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Uh oh..... *decides which door to run out of*

No he didn't. The copy on limewire, although widescreen, has the timecode and no menus. That isn't it.

I don't mind watching pirate DVDs, I just don't like to own them.

You shouldn't feel guilty or anything, Sedai. You saw it at the cinemas, more than once, and you'll probably buy the real DVD anyway. So no harm done.

The only pirate DVDs I have owned are ones i've subsequently got the real DVD of anyway.
Though atm mother has some rather snazzy looking pirates of Vera Drake and something else.....

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Back in the days of VHS I had a few dodgy copies, mainly of films that had been banned (or never released) over here - Reservoir Dogs, Bad Leiutenant, The Exorcist, Straw Dogs etc.

They've all been replaced by legit copies, first on video, then DVD, but I still have my Reservoir Dogs tape somewhere.

Sentimental reasons.

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I've got a pirate underthecounter rental copy of Wolfen from the late 70s that by the time we took it back to the shop they'd been raided. Ace film but crap quality

I'm don't buy pirated movies normally, but I did once. Its hard to get Battle Royale here in the States, so I got a friend to burn it for me. The picture quality was sub-par to say the least, but I still got to see a good film that I wouldn't have otherwise. But that's the only burnt one I have. But don't get me started on CDs...

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He probably got a dvd rip from some bittorrent site...

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I've seen some classy hard-to-rent films thanks to p2ps, and i feel pretty guilty that i didn't give the makers or arty-distributors anything. Gonna have to hook up to the net-rental thing now that it's got going.

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yea i know what your talking about with the timecodes but DVDs can be easily made with many different programs. There are alot of programs that let you make menus and your own scenes for video files. I know because people have paid me to do it for them

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