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Bootleg Star Wars AotC Debuts on Internet
Arctic Fox writes "Matt Drudge is reporting that bootleg copies of the new Star Wars movie have been appearing on the internet one week before the movie's big screeen debut. The article says that they have used a tripod mounted camera at a pre-screening to tape it. Not known is if anyone is seen walking in front of the camera."
I gotta admit, I find this amusing, although I'd never bother downloading it:
I've had 12:01 tickets ready to go and there is no way I'm gonna spoil it watching
a low quality divx.
no way I'd ever get a copy on my l33t dialup connection anyway, but the quality is supposedly not even up to "crap" standards.
This isn't exactly anything new. Lord of the Rings was circulating on the Internet two weeks before the movie was released, and I'm pretty sure everyone in my friend's dorm had a copy of it. I hope you didn't pay too much of a premium for those tickets, I watched it the other day after grabbing it from a friend and it wasn't that great.
m2 doesn't do anything. i moderate karma whores troll and i still get mod points.
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yeah. i can just see it now. they finish download attack of the clowns about a week before it gets to their cinemas. it cost them about 400 of their currancy because, well they have to pay by the minute in that country. the best connection they could get was 14.4 and could only sustain it for a max of 30 minutes at a time. that's why it took so long.
-- john
you bastards, i was getting excellent transfer rates from gnutella until now.
your jesus is another mans xebu. chew on that hypocrites.
You, my friend, are an idiot.
There is a reason why movies are screened in big, dark rooms with a packed audience, a screen that makes a tear look like a waterfall, and the sound turned WAY up. The emotional experience of seeing a film in that setting, (I hate this line) as it was intended, is significant.
Watch your pirated copy on your laptop, I do not care that it is stolen. Heck, mail $5 to the Skywalker Ranch if you want to. But your attempt to legitimize crap presentation is offensive. Compared to the real thing, it is junk. If George Lucas wanted TPM to look like archival footage he would've dug up the camera from "American Graffitti" and done the developing in his bathtub.
Films are constructed. Every element is precisely inserted for greatest effect. Find out what it's like, drop the $9 and get your ass in line.
Palabra.
"Life's funny sometimes." "And sometimes it isn't." --Cat's Cradle
YES, this is true! Lucas is the biggest "Jew" on the planet meaning he will wring every god damn bit of money out of the fans that he so shamelessly ignores and puts down. Hey, I guess he was naturally wealthy without Star Wars fans anyway and doesn't really owe them anything does he, right?