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I've been living in Taiwan for over 6 months now. I've heard about these bootleg DVD's and have actively tried to find them. I guess they are out there somewhere, but I haven't seen any. What I do see are huge lines or people outside of movie theaters waiting to see the latest releases.

When the story first broke about the latest 007 film being available in Taipei street markets, the film had not yet been released here. My guess is that had Hollywood had the reasoned sense to release the film everywhere at once, it would have been a much stronger blow to the bootleggers. Most people really don't want to see a poor quality (and that's what these are) version of a film on their 32 inch screen when they can see the real thing in a theater.

Nobody wants to watch movies recorded in a movie theater. You only see the plot and that's about it. How can a person enjoy 007 movie that way? No way!
I watched "Heroes", the new Jet Li movie on one of those VCD and it was not worth the time at all.