Someone metioned something about Italy being a haven for bootelggers.
Well from what I've heard Italy has cracked down hard on the bootlegging
industry there conducting major raids on many of the large bootleg
companies. The same has happened in England I've heard. At any rate, one
of the last CD's shipped before they where shut down (so the guy at the
shop tells me) is this fanatsic live Portishead disc I bought.
Absolutely brilliant, all from the mixing board, wonderfully mastered,
has 3 new songs, its just fucking incredible.
Anyhow another place that I've heard has crazy bootleggers is China. In
China I've heard that on the streets of big citys you can buy bootlegged
Laserdiscs! Sometimes mastered from another disc, somtimes from a legit
tape. You can also buy bootlegged CD-ROM's, which are flawless. When I
went to Singapore, they had this huge building called the Sim Lim square
(?) I think. Anyhow, the thing is filled from top to bottom with
bootlegged software! You can buy new releases for like 10 dollars, with
great looking packaging and xeroxed and bound manuals. They also have
custom ad ons and missions for games like X-wing and Tie Fighter. Its
fucking insane.
Here at home, if it wasn't for Bootleggers I wouldn't see half the films
from Hong Kong that I do. Bootlegging is hugely rampant in the Hong Kong
Video market, but how else can I see Rumble in the Bronx or Fallen
Angels? Anyhow to combat bootleggers and make money back the Hong Kong
video industry will spilt popular releases between two tapes and charge
for each one, regardless of the lenght of the movie. So you have two
tapes each like 45 mins long with (part A) and (part B) on the cover.
Strange Eh?
IDM RELATED QUESTION: Does anyone know whats up with the new Autechre
albums domestic(US) release? No one at the shops seems to know anything
about it. Also does anyone have a compilation called Source Lab?
-Fresh
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