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Lemonchest
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You need a field, a shotgun & a friend with a strong throwing arm.
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BadNewsBlues
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There's your answer right there. |
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MetalUpa1014
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My dad used to get me and my brother bootlegs from China all the time. One day he came home with the complete series for Inuyasha... on 4 discs. You can imagine the quality of that release.
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EricJ2
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I know there are CD/DVD recycling bins somewhere, but our BB and Whole Foods got rid of theirs--
Too much money to pay the pickup people, and less demand with our new "diskless" industry. That pretty much leaves, as the other poster mentioned, skeet-shooting. (And as for the quality of HK/Malaysian bootlegs, that used to be the only way to watch 80's Doraemon before the Disney Channel, and yes, they are a mess. Nowadays, never mind VHS, you're lucky to find bootleg masters not ripped directly off of YouTube.) |
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Gina Szanboti
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I kind of have the same question, regarding VHS tapes (home recorded, not bootlegs). I don't want to toss them in the trash, but I don't think recycling will take them because of the tape inside.
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Brand
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If these are in decent enough shape you might be able to give them away on Craig's List. If not you might have to just trash them. I know that is what I did with a lot of my old VHS tapes. |
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SpacemanHardy
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I've bought a few bootlegs on purpose on a few occasions, mainly because the shows in question were horribly out of print and only given VHS releases and were never officially released on DVD.
But yeah, other than in situations like above (which are thankfully becoming more and more rare with companies like Discotek rescuing so many old out of print shows) I don't support bootlegs at all. I got ripped off once when I bought what I thought was an official release of Chobits off of Amazon (it was OOP at the time), so I can personally vouch for the quality being pretty much crap. As for how to dispose of them, I have a local brick and mortar video rental store in town that specializes in rare, unusual stuff, so he's usually happy to take them off my hands. And of course, if all else fails, there's always the "gas can & matches" approach. 
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Emma Iveli
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Here's what I did to a set of Sailor Moon bootlegs I accidentally bought like 10 years ago...
This is what I did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WDt-8WouuQ There's going to be a sequel sometime this fall... I don't think the axe is going to make a return though... |
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Misopup
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Drill a small hole near one edge. Thread some fishing line through and tie it off. Hang you creation from the limb of a tree you don't want birds in. Repear until you either have enough bird deterrents in the tree, or you've run out of DVDs.
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Dark Absol
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I have the bootlegs of Naruto (up to the end of Chuunin Exam - Gaara Arc) and Mahoromatic (1st season).
Didn't have legit Naruto DVDs, but do have legit Mahoromatic (right from Sentai Filmworks). |
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DmonHiro
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For the guy asking: why not just keep them if you're so conflicted about disposing of them? You already have them so the harm is already done.
Oh, yeah... the good old days. I used to have a lot of pirated CD/DVDs in my city about 10 years ago. They literally died off about one year after a major internet provider set up shop and started offering unlimited downloading. These were mostly Russian copies, and were of pretty good quality. One time I went to Turkey, and we went to an actual bootleg store. It was very well organized. In Turkey, there are (were) two ways of buying pirated movies and anime: the streets or the shops. The streets were half as expensive, but you ran the high risk of buying an unplayable disc, and you're never gonna see the guy who sold it to you again. In the shops they had video rooms where you test the disc before buying it. If it's faulty, they bring you a new copy until you get one that plays. There was no way you'd walk out of one of those stores unhappy. I wanted to buy the Digimon movie, but I had to try 5 copies to get one that worked. They gave me hot tea so I wouldn't be upset, and have me a 20% discount because it took so long to find one. One of my friends bought a disc and it cracked in his player. He actually waited 4 months until our next trip to Turkey, and went back to the shop to complain. And they gave him another copy and 5 other discs for free. Nowadays you can get bootlegs off the internet from Malaysia. They quality varies greatly, but you can get a good reading on it by the number of episodes on a disc. I saw a box set of Hell Teacher Nube with 25 episodes per disc. No need to check to know the quality of that. But I bought a 2 disc set of G-On Riders, only 6 episodes per disc, and the look really nice. The subs are taken from fansubs, mostly. The box is actually really nice too. 10$ for the discs and another 10$ for shipping. Good deal for something you will never otherwise see the uncensored DVD version of. |
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TnKtRk
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bootleg DVDs of awesome shows that are worth buying the legal releases: into the trash they went
bootleg DVD of meh, not so awesome but still fun shows and with a legit release: I keep, no reason to spend more money on a not so awesome show bootleg merch like figs/minis/whatnot: they definitely stay in possesions |
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ParkerALx
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Like DmonHiro said, why not just keep them? Unless they're taking up a lot of space, I don't really see the harm. Though I've never purchased any myself, I find bootlegs equal parts fascinating and unintentionally hilarious for all the bizarre decisions that often go into making them. At least, the ones the letter writer has can serve as funny conversation pieces. Plus they were gifts from his or her dad. That at least has to add some sentimental value to them, surely?
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Kyjin
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I still remember back in the day when I was in high school when single discs would go for $30 a pop at Suncoast (which I saved and scrounged for so I could get .hack//SIGN and CCS). One of my best friends got really excited because he got a few complete series for cheap on Ebay. When I came over to watch with him and immediately recognized them as bootlegs, he wouldn't believe me. Swore they were legit. Yeah right. :/
The only bootleg I still have is a copy of Fushigi Yuugi buried in my parent's basement. Got it passed on from a friend and decided I might as well keep it since the series was out of print at the time. |
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Zalis116
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