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| 42 Examples of Copyright Piracy |
Last week, some thoughtful patron donated these bootleg Chinese/Hong-Kong movies. One of the librarians wanted to put it in the book sale but had an inkling that these might be fakes so they put them on my desk to look at first. The explanation process was akin to when I explain to my parents why that email about asking for their PayPal account information is phishing for the fifth time (spoiler alert: they have never had a PayPal account nor do they know what it is).
I chose a movie at random, took it out of its cheap paper sleeve, and popped it in my PC. I do admit that the print quality of the DVD holders is pretty high, but the print on the DVD's themselves looked pretty bad, that and they were in cheap plastic sleeves. When I was skimming through the movie, I pointed out the extremely poor quality of the video, it was like watching a 3D movie but without the glasses. If that wasn't enough for a dead give-away, the watermark of the Chinese pirate site embedded in the movie was.
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