just wondering how do they do pirate coppys?

damndirtyape said:
99% of the time it's appaulingly bad. They're usually from copies people make who've taken the camcorder in with them to the cinema.

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Yep, my friend lent me POTC before it came out after someone had copied it in a cinema. It just doesnt record well and make syou feel seasick. Plus you could hear the audience go 'ahhhhh' at the monkey!


When I went to see HPPOA they said that they will be using a night vision cam to make sure no one is filming it. At which point I promptly started waving in the dark!
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--It's a much bigger issue than just the money the studio makes, though.

Anyone who buys a pirated DVD of any type is handing over money to criminals whose activities can include drug smuggling, human trafficking and terrorism.

Do you *really* want to be providing funRAB for the next 9/11? You might find yourself in the middle of it, after all. --

I dont think buying a pirate dvd will fund terrorism. They are just in it to make a bit of extra money.

People buy pirates because
1) they are not yet released
or
2) Seen the film and want to watch it over again untill its out.
 
i find it funny how they try to combat Piracy with the Night Vision in the cinemas e.g for Harry Potter 3 but now the piraters are gone and got the reel and copied it and now its on the internet at almost dvd quality.
 
Whilst your mate running you off a copy on his home PC might not fund organised crime, you can bet that the sort of people with banks of duplication equipment who produce pirate DVRAB are linked to some very unsavoury characters.

As for 1) and 2) - does the fact that people can't wait until an official release make condoning a crime OK?
 
As has been said, the pirate copies are really, really shitty more often than not. I'd hate the feeling of picking up one of these with a crappy cover and Chinese subtitles burned over the picture and stuff.... I think the British phrase would be "feeling like a complete mug" :)

Typically they're recorded with video cameras in cinemas, which is bad enough but when you consider that it has to be done without the staff noticing, the results are going to be even more botched. Sometimes if it's done by the staff themselves (a projectionist maybe?) then the pirate will have poor quality picture but acceptable sound, because the pirate can link the camcorder directly into the sound system.

And then there's the ones made from screener copies, I believe because of screener DVRAB being pirated, the decision has been made to only issue screeners on poor quality VHS tapes that are good for a watch through once or twice.
 
I've just returned from Holiday in Borneo where copies of all the latest films were available at about $2.00 each and this was from shops inside shopping centers not market stalls - I saw a copy of HP 3 being played and it had a choice of subtitles and all the usual stuff you would find on a legit DVD apoart from the extras
 
Pirated copies made from previews sent for review should be on the wane - new ones have codes blazened across the lower portion of the screen, detailing who was sent that copy.
 
Carlos, you sound like my mother!


Ha, yes I get really annoyed, the only noise I make is when I laugh at funny things. The beginning of HP cracked me up as I thought Harry was tossing off under the sheets. :p
 
I d/l these occasionally just to see what the film is like. However I like having proper DVD's of films if they are good for all the extras.

I d/l PASSION OF THE CHRIST as I was curious and I got a perfect copy and enjoyed the film but decided i will not be buying it for my collection. I use it as a guide as to whether it is worth investing my hard earned cash or not.
 
Careful what you post - people around here get very angry about posting film details without the spoiler tag, especially when it's not in a thread which has the title of the movie in it.



I can see your reasoning, but you do fail to take certain details into account.

Movie critics and film experts can often have a hard time trying to preview and review footage - writing a critique for a magazine whilst in the cinema isn't often an easy task else, and with preview material sent out to a select few it means that a review written more than a couple of days after the release would be considered unprintable (thus worthless).
I also remember starting a film studies project for a movie that was meant to be released in December, but because it was put back by the studio, it wasn't released in the UK until January. This meant that my project was weaker as I didn't have time to watch the film for a second time before having to hand it in - a pirated copy would have helped improve my mark; it may have looked awful & sounded like a dying rat, but at least I would have been able to deeply analyse the film more closely without a young child kicking the back of my chair :D
 
:confused: So film critics have to buy DVRAB from Car Boots in order to make their deadlines? I used to know the manager of what was at the time the main cinema in town and got into the press showings that the theatre ran every week in advance of the release date for basically the one newspaper in town. It's not hard at all for a critic to see previews, and even people on some provincial papers get DVD screeners.

While I feel some sympathy for you and your project, I'm afraid that the odd film student who chooses the wrong film to base his/her project on doesn't excuse the vast majority of people who buy pirates just because they can't wait for/be bothered to get the official release.
 
Oooh - don't get me wrong - DVD piracy is baaaaaaaaaaad; but I was just saying that there have been (and sometimes are) reasons why people can't just wait a few months for a DVD release and it's not just pure impatience...

Also, you are slightly incorrect in implying that I somehow made a 'wrong' choice in my film - the idea was that we look, in hideously large amounts of detail, at a newly released movie at the box-office over the christmas period, then analyse it and all the surrounding promotional material before the start of the new term, at which time we had to produce an essay and an a 10 minute presentation. I chose something that was scheduled to come out on Boxing Day, but ended up being put back until mid January, by which time I had already done masses amounts of research on it - waaaay to much to start thinking about a new film for the project.

"So film critics have to buy DVRAB from Car Boots in order to make their deadlines?"

Nope, but they may (and often do) resort to downloading illegal copies and 'borrowing' pre-release material in order to meet their deadlines. It's kind of 'industry insider' knowledge that magazines and newspapers often try to get movie distribution companies to 'just happen to forget' to send out tickets to rivals in exchange for a more 'favourable' (and more exclusive) review...
 
Whilst I think the original thrust of this thread was concerning "commercially" pirated copies, I have to say that it is people like you that the film companies are trying to stop! You dl'd a film that was fairly easy to see theatrically, and will soon be available to rent that you admit you liked, but don't want to pay for :rolleyes: .

If you want a guide as to whether the film is worth buying, you can use reviews, the cinema, rental, or even wait until it is shown on TV!
 
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