One of the Saturday night traditions our office has is to pick and watch a movie/DVD in the small makeshift theater on our base as a group. Tonight was my first time in attendance and we watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Good movie, although the quality was not the greatest presumably because it was a copy of a copy. Meaning it was pirated.
Illegal copied media is an industry and a way of life for people in the Asian continent. You can get literally any recently released movie within the last 10 years and most recent TV shows and entire seasons/series of popular ones. You used to be able to bargain with the sellers, but now it's pretty much a flat rate of $2 per disk. In most cases the copies are DVD quality as they're actual copies of cracked DVDs. In other cases, if the movies are just released, the quality might be a little poorer because it was probably an Internet file ripped from an advanced copy or in some cases, a video camera recording the the movie in a theater. Those copies are especially annoying when someone gets up from a row in front of the camera or you hear coughing in the background.
We have a lending library of sorts of all kinds of movies. Typically when we buy a movie, after we watch it, we donate it to the group or base. That way the library grows and there will be entertainment for everyone else to watch. Now we are allowed to bring home copies of these illegally copied movies through customs as long as there is no more than one copy per movie title. I've brought some back in the past and still have them at my home in the U.S., but then again if I really wanted to hear someone cough during a movie, I could go to a theater in the U.S.
More to follow.
Illegal copied media is an industry and a way of life for people in the Asian continent. You can get literally any recently released movie within the last 10 years and most recent TV shows and entire seasons/series of popular ones. You used to be able to bargain with the sellers, but now it's pretty much a flat rate of $2 per disk. In most cases the copies are DVD quality as they're actual copies of cracked DVDs. In other cases, if the movies are just released, the quality might be a little poorer because it was probably an Internet file ripped from an advanced copy or in some cases, a video camera recording the the movie in a theater. Those copies are especially annoying when someone gets up from a row in front of the camera or you hear coughing in the background.
We have a lending library of sorts of all kinds of movies. Typically when we buy a movie, after we watch it, we donate it to the group or base. That way the library grows and there will be entertainment for everyone else to watch. Now we are allowed to bring home copies of these illegally copied movies through customs as long as there is no more than one copy per movie title. I've brought some back in the past and still have them at my home in the U.S., but then again if I really wanted to hear someone cough during a movie, I could go to a theater in the U.S.
More to follow.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Your comments will be logged and reviewed for appropriateness.