Illegal copies of new Star Wars on sale in China...
BEIJING: Unauthorised disks of the latest Star Wars blockbuster were on sale on the streets of Beijing on Sunday, just days after the film premiered in China.
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith opened across China at midnight on Thursday, about the same time it premiered elsewhere in the world, in an attempt to beat the pirates.
But pirated disks were available everywhere by Sunday.
"These just came in this morning. The quality is very good, they're not like those pirated copies that are filmed in the cinema," a Beijing vendor said as he fished a pirated DVD from behind a bush and offered to sell it for 7 yuan.
The Motion Picture Association of America estimates that about 95 per cent of DVDs sold in China are pirated, costing the US film industry $280 million last year alone.
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith opened across China at midnight on Thursday, about the same time it premiered elsewhere in the world, in an attempt to beat the pirates.
But pirated disks were available everywhere by Sunday.
"These just came in this morning. The quality is very good, they're not like those pirated copies that are filmed in the cinema," a Beijing vendor said as he fished a pirated DVD from behind a bush and offered to sell it for 7 yuan.
The Motion Picture Association of America estimates that about 95 per cent of DVDs sold in China are pirated, costing the US film industry $280 million last year alone.
posted by cyouincourt007 at 1:35 PM
2 Comments:
these people don't waste no time to bootleg dvd's
Yep...it's a worldwide thang
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