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Forum - View topicNEWS: Howl's Moving Castle Pirated
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T0FFe3m@n
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Basically, a telesync recording, i.e. not even worth watching. $10 is a ripoff... |
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Godaistudios
Posts: 2075 Location: Albuquerque, NM (the land of entrapment) |
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Sadly, I'm not surprised about this at all... It just seems so commonplace. Talk about a lack of respect for the film you are paying to watch. If a film is good, support it - if the film is bad, don't bother wasting your resources on it.
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Kagemusha
 Posts: 2783 Location: Boston |
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This really shouldn't be a suprise to anyone in this day and age. In Hong Kong bootlegs often go on sale the day of the films release. And of course there are alot of people who just download films and watch them without even having to leave their home.
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Terry
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Alas, you can get it on eBay as well. This is a pure pirated rip-off. With world-wide distribution of this film fast-tracked, there's no excuse for buying this.
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tomcat
Posts: 85 Location: Orange,California |
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I think that the reasons for boots of new movies are very different from here and asia, here most people I know who download or buy street-corner copies is that here in the U.S.A., is that its more convenient then to actually stand inline to enjoy a theater showing, no matter how terrible the recording they get is. I've seen these recordings and they're worthless.
While in Japan a movie for even just one person much less with a date could cost at least 15 bucks (US$), a date, a meal, rail fare and even a cheap date could run you over 50 bucks (US$) about 5000yen. So paying 1000yen for a lousy boot is a buy, I've heard of movie theaters in Tokyo getting 25 to 40 bucks!! 2500 to 4000yen per person. |
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Twage
Posts: 364 Location: North Bergen, NJ |
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Mainishi?
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Dilandau
 Posts: 525 Location: Tea House |
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hehe, I saw that too. "Everyday" changed to "Everywest"? lol But really, this isn't news. It happens everyday to every thing that has a digital format. |
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Romuska
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Damn pirates. Don't they have any respect for art? I for one would never pirate a Miyazaki movie (or any other movie for that matter).
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Steventheeunuch
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I was under the impression that anime very rarely, if at all, ever gets the whole "camcorder+telesync" pirated DVD "treatment". WHat's even stranger is that they sold it in Japan, amidst the creators/companies that made the thing, who are fairly vocal about their stance and tolerance of such a thing. |
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Raja
 Posts: 68 Location: Tottori |
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Until July of last year, I was working for a town board of education in Kagoshima prefecture. Every month or so, the "bootleg CD and DVD guy" would come to the town hall and set up shop. He always had the latest movies...Return of the King, Finding Nemo (this was when both were still in theaters). The discs all had various logos on their labels, such as DTS, Dolby, the DVD logo, NTSC region logo, etc. However, they were all obvious copies, in those thin CD cases that come with some blank media.
Not only did the local authorities turn a blind eye to these copyright violations, this guy did a brisk business selling to them. He also had knock-off toys and clothes, and other stuff... So, this kind of thing is not unheard of in Japan. However, now that the bootleggers are trying to do a Ghibli film, that's when the enforcement starts. Hmmm... 
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cyrax777
 Posts: 1825 Location: the desert |
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a telesync would be a cam vid source with the audio coming from patched directly into the sound setup. Im just suprised a ripped screener hasn't shown up yet of course that could be becouse there is no screener out yet? Thats probly more likely the case. Well on the bright side the odds are the Offical DVD will have proper english subtitles as most Studio Ghibli works do. |
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cubs2084
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I'm not surprised by this news at all.
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drone9
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even though it might not be unheard of, in Japan open sale of bootlegs is a rather are sight I'd say. I just hope that they will take the right measures to prevent this from becoming common news. a public campaign to rise consumer awareness might do the trick, since unlike other countries in Japan such measures actually seem to work, as can be seen by sony music's decision to no longer use copy protection on their audio cds, since they no longer deem it necessary after consumers went back to rather buy than download them. |
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jaguar_cult
Posts: 9 Location: Aztlan |
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I like boots like this one, but only if I can get them for free or very cheap, but I probably would not have purchased Howl's boot because part of movie experience is seeing and hearing the movie up close, I am sure Howl's is worth going through the trouble to see it in the theater. But movies like National Treasure, and lot of that other Hollywood garbage I don't mind watching the boot versions even if they come from some theater because then I can just watch the garbage in my home and fast forward through it if I do not like it. I do have a very large legitimate DVD collection too, they are almost so cheap now that one might as well purchase the real copy and enjoy its features than going through the trouble it takes to rip one.
I don't know how much DVD media is, but it takes a while to rip a movie, then a while to burn it. The cost inovled almost makes it useless; but I would rip and burn the whole Gundam Seed series if I had the chance  .
The boot business will never take profit from the U.S. movie business, I think consumers are willing to spend $15 at Target for a new release vs. $5 for a boot of questionable quality. I think Hollywood should focus on making better movies and not on piracy, most movies are money losing or break even endavors once they are in the theaters; then they make it up in DVD sales. |
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