Tag: BOOTLEG

When King of Pop Michael Jackson passed away earlier this year, we knew the line of people waiting to profit from his death would be a long one. These bling-tastic exploitations, though, took us by surprise. The Michael Jackson phone, manufactured by a Chinese imitation goods company, is in the very poorest of spectacularly poor taste. It boasts enough faux gold and jewels to make a Liberace ...

Two years ago a 19-year-old was busted for recording a few seconds of the ending of the 'Transformers' movie, supposedly so that her little brother could see it. There was a lot of public debate, but it certainly seemed like the girl, Jhannet Sejas, was being made a scapegoat. Since then, there have been plenty of other folks prosecuted for similar offenses, but the latest one is a bit more ...

Ok, so Blu-ray won the format war and sent HD-DVD home with its tail between its legs, but ol' Blu still hasn't really won over the hearts and minds of consumers. One group, however, has really fallen in love with Blu-ray: Pirates. Asian bootleggers are buying up Blu-rays and ripping them in AVCHD, a video format that can display a 720p HD image (compared to Blu-ray's 1080p), but can also be ...

Back in the day, bootleg recordings were poor-quality reproductions of live concerts captured on crummy tape systems that were then passed around (usually illegally) between rabid fans. These days, it seems, that concept has gone a little....commercial. Verizon has announced a partnership with former grunge mavens Pearl Jam to release a trio of 'bootleg' tracks after each concert on their 2008 ...

In China, the Samsung cell phone has become the new Louis Vuitton handbag. Which is starting to piss some people off -- first and foremost, the folks at a little company called...Samsung. So in cooperation with Beijing's Haidian and Fengtai Industry and Commerce Departments, the Korean electronics giant has identified 88 fake varieties of its mobile phones floating around Beijing. The fake ...