yet even more ESB lead:
http://forum.rifftrax.com/index.php?topic=11259.30
I can only speak from my experiences back in the early 80's - when you swapped bootlegs for blank tapes (which is why the current law was changed to read "gain, even if not monetary"). More than seven years ago.
Back when - if you knew the right people - you could get a copy of Empire Strikes Back that had been copied on a telecine without a widescreen lens so that everyone looked tall and squashed - unless you had a TV like my General Electric that allowed you to adjust the size of the picture on the screen from the back so that you could make the vertical smaller until that picture looked normal. Letterboxed Empire Strikes Back in my own home in 1984...sweet.
Even though it was one of the first places I was going to look through, didn't until this link popped up: (Going through entire thread)
http://www.vcdq.com/forum/topic41378-120.html
Star Wars Ep. 1, bought it off a guy when I was in high school for $5.
But if your saying a bootleg is one ripped from a movie theater with a cam/ts/scr then mine is a VHS of Star Wars Ep. 1
Ahhh, that reminded me, I had a faultless workprint/screener of Return of the Jedi. Well, I got it given as I can't of been old when it came out (I'd have been 2 it seems, I only remember cos my rents kept the copy for years as it was ace).
The first one I remember is the original Star Wars on Betamax, I must have been about 3. I Remember getting ESB for my 4th birthday and also ET and Superman 1 and 2 around this time. Still got the pirated SW trilogy on betamax somewhere.
Return of the jedi, bad cam hired from an asian video shop in the early '80s.
I can't really remember, exactly, but like I know back in the day I had Office Space, Matrix, Episode 1 and American Beauty all in .asf format ..
also i remember having pirates (well my cousin did) of the exorcist and return of the jedi.
My first pirated movie I watched was star wars a new hope I was just a little kid watching it on top loading vcr. But as far as the first movie I burnt myself I can't quite remember it was a crappy cam but I was amazed that I could do it.
oldest ive seen = empire strikes back and a couple of disneys.
Phantom Menace VCD with a huge "Z" watermark on the side of the screen.
Star Wars a new hope here. my Mom worked for a dodgy video store:D remember the quality being quite good although it was quite a few yrs
I remember mine being The Empire Strikes Back! It was from a friends "Biker" dad who had hundreds of quality films (some NOT for kids") that we found in a drawer in his bedroom. That copy of Empire was worn out as was E.T. and Jedi some time later! What's the worst quality copy anyone else has seen recently? - mine has to be the naff incomplete "Phantom of The Opera" Cam copy going around???
Star Wars Episode I
Star wars E4 in VHS
the first "digital" copy was "Star Wars Ep. 1".. A cam version.. and in the middle of the movie the screen went black after the "battery! battery!" logo jumped up and down..... then it came up again :) guess they did a fast battery switch there
First one i remember watching was Return of the jedi when i was a kid.
I wrote earlier in this thread it was ROTJ but a friend pointed out (In fact dug out of his attic) Star Wars:Telecine so I guess my first pirated video was actually a TC. How cool is that, god knows how old I was when I saw it, I was 6 when ROTJ came out.
it's even cooler that we still have a copy of the TC even if it is nth generation.
I'm going to have to watch it again (Although the quality is really quite bad) as suppossedly there are some subtle differences.
Might just redownload it though as there are better copies floating around the net for those true star wars freaks who know where to look.
::Edit
Looking through his attic, I seem to have found a treasure trove of '80's and '90's bootlegs, I notice most of the '80s bootlegs are cam's, most of the '90s are screeners. Star Wars is the only TC out of the bunch.
There's something truly cool about watching ghostbusters on a cam (Even though I have it on dvd) it really brings back the'80s feel I might have to watch temple of doom next (Maybe watching a cam of it will make it better).
My first non CAM was the Revenge of The Sith Workprint. It sorta got me hooked all over again;)
my first vhs pirate would've probably been Star Wars episode VI, although i had to hire it & copy it, so not really a proper pirate.
Would have to be Star Wars EP1, back in 99, pretty damn killer for a TS, plus it blew my mind how over 700mb could be burned, years later realizing overburning lol.
Star Wars Episode 1 was mine as well.
I'll always remember having the full scary movie in 63MB, two asf files... Thanks mirage (Or whoever it was).
http://www.avmaniacs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24155&pagenumber=
The mono track was available either from a VHS bootleg telecine from the time of the films release or from 1980's ITV broadcasts in the UK
http://www.worlds-forum.com/archive/index.php/t-158806.html
What i do remember vividly is that my dad had some 'connections' and we were able to get our hands on a pirate copy of 'The Empire Strikes Back'. I had never seen so many people in our house to watch that video
http://www.allquests.com/question/1942555/Whats-the-earliest-film-you-remember-watching-on-VHS.html
can remember going into a video shop with my parents when I was about 5 and they couldn't rent us Empire Strikes Back but he offered us a priate copy.