I love Friday 🙂 The beautiful and free feeling that comes with it, is unparalleled. I’m going to spend tonight watching a movie or two.
Anyway I noticed that movie pirates have changed their operating ways. Some shops now do not have the DVDs ready when you go there. Instead , they put all the movies on hard disk and only burn onto empty disc upon requests. Pretty smart and simple isn’t it? I think no longer will we hear news about police raiding some obscure old buildings and seize hundreds of thousands of DVDs and high-end disc copiers.
And less risk too. If the authority make a suprise visit to some of these shops, owners can claim that he sells originals but all sold out. And put the hard disk in encrypted mode, drop into acid or whatever.
If I am the authority, what would I do?
Firstly, I will pretend to be a normal customer. That much is obvious, if I want the pirate to actually give me pirated DVDs. I ask for few movies, and then wait for them to burn onto DVDs. And then, after they give me the DVDs, I will pay, go home and enjoy the movies.
Haha 🙂
Or, you can ask them to give it to you for free, since you are the authority(like ‘surat hitam’) *evil laugh*
haha
so sad if get caught with petty bribe.
not worth the risk lolx.
what is “surat hitam”? You know a Malay term that I dont ???!!! Haha 🙂
being in the trade, i know that these guys have been doing this more than 2 years back. is really an effective and cheap way for the. u won’t be able to pretend if u r the authorities coz they can smell u one mile b4 u reach their shop. they somehow know u r not a genuine customer 😉
“being in the trade”? does this piracy thing affect broadcasters too?
i thought only dvd distributors.
i used to be in the movie making business for 7 years before i move to tv….. so piracy affects our movie money big time…. but the inside business is really interesting 😉
surat hitam = direct translation for ‘black mail’ laaaaa