Agora Vox has reported on their site that reportedly 5 arrests were made in the United States where people allegedly trying to pirate the Transformers movie on their camcorder. Arrests occured in New York, California, Chicago, Florida and Georgia. The New York offender can face up to one year in jail and up to $2,500 in fines.
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So Far 5 Arrests for Attempts to Pirate Transformers Movie
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So Far 5 Arrests for Attempts to Pirate Transformers Movie
Posted by Raymond T. Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:49 pm
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Posted by Optimus Frimal Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:53 pm
Aargh! We pirates of the ODB dispise this kind of piracy. Aargh! The land lubbers should be made to walk the plank! Aargh!
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Posted by Darth Bombshell Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:59 pm
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Posted by City Commander Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:02 pm
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Haharr! Already in with the pyrate talk I see OpFr?!
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Posted by Insurgent Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:05 pm
Argh! I'm with ye thar Frimal. Those people give pirates a bad name. And they have nee excuse. They can see the movie already. Shame the good ship ODB can't make the sail across to those strange lands. ARRGH! Feed em to the Fishies!
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Posted by Megatron Wolf Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:14 pm
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So thats why its been so hard to find it on bootleg. I though people just didnt care about the movie. Looks like i wont be seeing the movie a 5th time untill it comes out on DVD. So were they arrested while filming it or while selling the actual DVDs?
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Posted by Skowl Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:22 pm
Serves them right...
I don't get movie pirates... they're thieves who risk alot trying to sneak into a theatre with a camcorder and for what? So a bunch of other, more lazy thieves can download whatever they filmed, without having to pay the entrance fee or risking a fine and possible jail time.
I'm sorry, but if I had to pay close to 10$ to see Transformers, damn it, EVERYONE is going to have to pay to see that movie.
Unless you're content with watching a choppy, shaky out-of-focus bootleg on a 13" little monitor in your crappy apartement full of old leftover pizza (which you paid for... strange that you would pay for a pizza but not for a movie)... in which case, well, there's no helping you... 'cuz you're an idiot.
I don't get movie pirates... they're thieves who risk alot trying to sneak into a theatre with a camcorder and for what? So a bunch of other, more lazy thieves can download whatever they filmed, without having to pay the entrance fee or risking a fine and possible jail time.
I'm sorry, but if I had to pay close to 10$ to see Transformers, damn it, EVERYONE is going to have to pay to see that movie.
Unless you're content with watching a choppy, shaky out-of-focus bootleg on a 13" little monitor in your crappy apartement full of old leftover pizza (which you paid for... strange that you would pay for a pizza but not for a movie)... in which case, well, there's no helping you... 'cuz you're an idiot.
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Posted by Skywarp83 Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:29 pm
Good, They should rot in jail for that. By them doing that it stops TF from making more money. And lets face it, TF deserves to make more money, So they can give us more sequals. A local flee market near my house gets busted all the time for selling bootleg copies of movies and the more they get busted the more other people do it. You would think that they would stop after seeing everyone getting caught.
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Posted by Bouncy X Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:31 pm
unless they actually bring tripods, which from the few camcorder movies i've seen shows they dont.............dont their hands get tired holding it up for 2hrs? man...lol
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Posted by Windracer Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:31 pm
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All I can say is they had it coming and I'm glad they were busted.
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Posted by osiricon Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:35 pm
I want to see this movie again, but its not rated ARR.
Sorry I had to do it.
Sorry I had to do it.
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Posted by dabattousai Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:37 pm
BumbleBee83 wrote:Good, They should rot in jail for that. By them doing that it stops TF from making more money. And lets face it, TF deserves to make more money, So they can give us more sequals. A local flee market near my house gets busted all the time for selling bootleg copies of movies and the more they get busted the more other people do it. You would think that they would stop after seeing everyone getting caught.
Yes, they should go and pirate Harry Potter so they lose money and TransFormers gains money, good thinking there
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Posted by muswp1 Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:46 pm
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dabattousai wrote:BumbleBee83 wrote:Good, They should rot in jail for that. By them doing that it stops TF from making more money. And lets face it, TF deserves to make more money, So they can give us more sequals. A local flee market near my house gets busted all the time for selling bootleg copies of movies and the more they get busted the more other people do it. You would think that they would stop after seeing everyone getting caught.
Yes, they should go and pirate Harry Potter
Don't worry, people will do that too.
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Posted by Sideshow Sideswipe Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:00 pm
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I got so pissed at my boss when he told me he downloaded the movie and didn't see it in the theater and he had the balls to say it didn't look as good as he expected...
what do you expect from a crappy camcorder copy??? jeez -
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Posted by Overloaded Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:02 pm
Sideshow Sideswipe wrote:I got so pissed at my boss when he told me he downloaded the movie and didn't see it in the theater and he had the balls to say it didn't look as good as he expected...
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Man I gave out to my cousins boyfriend for doing the same thing . I perfer the cinema myself
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Posted by Hoistimus Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:03 pm
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And they say there's no good news in the news these days.. hehe. People are doing themselves a favor by watching this movie in theaters instead of a crappy version of it on their monitor.
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Posted by Blozor Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:09 pm
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And one attempt to blatantly rip it off:
NOTE: It's NOT good, so unless you want to be bored to the point of idiocy for 90 minutes, don't bother.
NOTE: It's NOT good, so unless you want to be bored to the point of idiocy for 90 minutes, don't bother.
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Blozor wrote:And one attempt to blatantly rip it off:
NOTE: It's NOT good, so unless you want to be bored to the point of idiocy for 90 minutes, don't bother.
I think I would like to see that...it piques my curiosity.
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Posted by SnipeShade Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:20 pm
; ) theres nothing like watching a good action movie on a HUGE screen.
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Posted by Apparition Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:26 pm
Blozor wrote:And one attempt to blatantly rip it off:
NOTE: It's NOT good, so unless you want to be bored to the point of idiocy for 90 minutes, don't bother.
ooooo, is that "boring bad" or "deliciously cheesy bad"?
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No offense, but you're stupid enough to even want to WATCH a **** quality cam of any movie, the least you deserve is to get anally raped in jail.
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Posted by Megatron Wolf Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:23 pm
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Bouncy X wrote:unless they actually bring tripods, which from the few camcorder movies i've seen shows they dont.............dont their hands get tired holding it up for 2hrs? man...lol
Ive seen a few where they actually used a tripod or something. there was no motion at all. It stayed in frame the hole time. They were filmed in another country because there were sutitles on the screen. I guess each country has diffrent laws for pirated movies. But some do find a way to keep the camera still. But i have seen some were they hand the camera off to other people. I guess evrey one has there own method. But the only way any one should have a bootleg copy of a movie is if they've seen it more than 3 times and its way after the release. Not every one has the money to see a movie every week. So you should'nt look down on people that have a bootleg. Unless they are just to lazy and cheap to see it in the theater than you can give them hell.
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