There is a site. I found out about it on youtube, selling 4K discs of 4k77, 4k80 and 4k83. Not going to link. It seriously is bad for the community for people to do this. The Blu-Ray boots were bad enough but offering 4K and not just 4K but HDR copies as well, awful.
Edit: it’s not through youtube obviously it’s a webstore that sells bootlegs. They even call these despecialized when they are 4k versions of the 4k77, 4k80 and 4k83. And Harmy isn’t the one who did those they can’t even get basic facts right.
I definitely saw this video. I tried to leave a polite comment on it to explain why he shouldn’t be promoting or endorsing the selling of fan restorations (and to point out the difference between the Despecialized and 4KXX versions). It was instantly deleted by the user… so he obviously knows what he’s doing is wrong.
Yeah he admits in the video to buying an illegal advance 4K bootleg which is perfect quality for a Godzilla Minus One. The store linked is literally pre-selling a bootleg of the Acolyte. I had hoped he was just a fan taken in by an unscrupulous person, but they clearly don’t care.
And to make matters worse that bootlegger I mentioned before from Europe who was kicked off of Ebay is back again under a new name selling all 3 4K projects on blu.
This other store, which is way worse is US based.
I wish something could be done to stop this piracy it hurts our community.
I’d message Williarob but he is probably aware of it.