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Ripplin

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Theater Performance Preservations
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Ripplin wrote:

I still have an old episode of Inside Edition that spoke about the rampant bootlegging on TPM in 1999. It's really interesting, especially the part that says they're allowed to sell up to a certain dollar amount. :s They go into shops wiht hidden cameras and try to buy copies. There are others that have them spread out on the sidewalks, too.

Would be more then happy to digitize that for you. 

Recently digitized a copy of the Dateline piece "Phantom Taping" from 1999 on the topic.  The laws these reports choose to talk about are interesting, in the Dateline piece they claim it's not illegal to purchase bootlegs, which I guess gives them clearance to do this type of reporting, ie buying pirate versions and talking about them.  There's a few other oddities in the Dateline report, more on that later, the screen caps say it all.  That's another thing on the random to do list, see if I can get those reporters to talk about their remembrances.

That sounds good too. Sounds very similar to mine. I basically have a tape full of every Star Wars clip I could find on TV around 1999/2000. I'm sure there's a lot on it most here haven't seen simply because it was on Canadian TV or they just plain missed it. Would be fun to convert the whole thing to DVD so others can see it.