DVD duplicators and low-cost camcorders are turning many of us into movie pirates at best and criminals at worst.
Digg post: “When Gene Harris showed up at a Lombard theater for the premiere of “Miami Vice” last month, seeing the movie wasn’t his priority. He hoped to catch a film pirate in action.”
I always thought most DVD piracy happened online with peer-to-peer networks, but a lot of it is happening in our local community. Anyone can now buy the equipment they need to video and create sophisticate DVD copies of new release movies.
Software pirates can make the DVD for about a $1 dollar that looks from the DVD packaging and the quality as a legitimate DVD. For consumers, a couple things give it away that you are dealing with criminals and participating in software piracy. First, the DVD only costs $5 dollars and the movie was just released in theaters the day before.
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