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News Credits: 730 · by **Raymond T.** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:49 pm

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.

You can read the full article and report here.

Edit:
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News Credits: 7 · 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!

News Credits: 487 · by **Darth Bombshell** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:59 pm

Friendly reminder to everyone: discussion of where to illegally download the film is NOT allowed here.

by **Versa** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:59 pm

GOOD! GOOD!! That film deserves to be seen in theaters. Time for Transformers to shine!

News Credits: 6 · by **City Commander** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:02 pm

Haharr! Already in with the pyrate talk I see OpFr?!
Good on ye mate!

And yes, we true pyrates are against film pyracy!

News Credits: 2 · 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!

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:14 pm

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?

News Credits: 665 · 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.

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.

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

News Credits: 1 · by **Windracer** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:31 pm

All I can say is they had it coming and I'm glad they were busted.

News Credits: 2 · 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.

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 :-?

News Credits: 3 · by **muswp1** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:46 pm

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.

by **opjet** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:52 pm

har ha ha ha ha nothing gonna stand in
our way this nothig stand in our way
not this week

by **Sloptank** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:59 pm

I wonder if anyone would get busted for bringing a certain Real Gear into the theatre.

News Credits: 70 · by **Sideshow Sideswipe** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:00 pm

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 -

News Credits: 2 · 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...

what do you expect from a crappy camcorder copy??? jeez -

Man I gave out to my cousins boyfriend for doing the same thing . I perfer the cinema myself

News Credits: 1 · by **Hoistimus** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:03 pm

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.

News Credits: 1 · by **Blozor** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:09 pm

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.

News Credits: 38 · by **Sunstar** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:17 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.

I think I would like to see that...it piques my curiosity.

by **SnipeShade** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:20 pm

; ) theres nothing like watching a good action movie on a HUGE screen.

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"?

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:31 pm

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.

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:23 pm

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.