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In Reply to: Carefully placed stolen copies. posted by Tom §. on September 10, 2002 at 13:40:02:

Here's the story from digitalbits.com.....
"Finally today, we're getting reports that there are now pirated bootleg discs in circulation, mastered directly from Disc One of the official Attack of the Clones DVD, which was apparently stolen from the replication plant. A number of readers have reported seeing these available both online and in person in parts of Asia. Here's what one had to say:
"I don't know how secure the plants Lucasfilm uses to make the discs but over here in Kuala Lumpur, the pirated first disc is already selling. From the looks of it, it seems that they copied it from the original disc. How'd they get that original disc, I have no idea. But it's out and it's being replicated by the thousands. I only saw it being played by the vendor... and they were very cautious over people who asks too many questions. These kinds of leaks have happened before on various titles - Blade II, Session 9, Lord of the Rings and perhaps the other bigger blockbusters. It just sounds like the pressing plants have a habit of missing discs."
And here's another report:
"The original disc is a DVD-9, but the "pirated" disc doing its rounds on the net is a DVD-5 (as are the DVD-R discs used in PC DVD-R/RW drives). Therefore, the pirates have downsampled, or better yet, re-encoded the MPEG-2 data to fit the movie on a DVD-5. Because of that, one should expect some degradation of the picture quality compared to the official release... the pirated DVD has the original Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround EX soundtrack as well as the commentary track. All other audio tracks have been removed. DVD credits featuring some outtakes are present, but other possible extras have been removed.""
What a Mess !!!

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Topic - "Attack of the Clones" DVD Disc 1 preview w/ lots of screenshots - mikenyc 02:38:22 09/10/02 (7)

"Attack of the Clones" to be released in an IMAX version - mikenyc 06:04:43 09/11/02 (0)

DVD could offer huge enhancement compared to theater experience - Joe S 09:51:52 09/10/02 (2)

Re: DVD's huge enhancement - mikenyc 10:20:27 09/10/02 (1)

Re: DVD's huge enhancement - uzun 17:36:44 09/24/02 (0)

"Attack of the Clones" DVD Disc 1 - mikenyc 06:45:36 09/10/02 (2)

Carefully placed stolen copies. - Tom §. 13:40:02 09/10/02 (1)

The Tangled Web They May Be Weaving ! - mikenyc 14:33:06 09/10/02 (0)

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