Bootleg?

[wormraper]

Originally Posted by Jett Blu

Is it safe to assume that anything bought from Amazon LLC is 100% real, and not a bootleg?

not 100%... amazon has been known to get bootlegs before (very rarely, but it happens) and the marketplace is just as susceptible to boots as ebay or half.com is.

really some of them have become REALLY good but it's STILL cost prohibitive to do mass level bootleging of blu-rays...dvds not so much. if you look on the inner ring you should see the serial keys of the batch... if those keys are not there than it's usually a bootleg. those numbers and letters are basically the "vin" # of the machine and location (as well as describing what the item is) of where they are produced. PRESSED bootlegs (not just some douche using a burner) are usually professionally done using the ACTUAL pressing machines from the distribution companies themselves (usually done at night or off days on the sly) since it's soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo insanely expensive to buy the equipment.) so they scratch off or mar the digital signature of the machine so it can't be traced back to that location. that's the most obvious dead giveaway for the really good boots...they may be good at copying but they can never cover EVERYTHING up. as long as you look at what you're getting you can weed out most of the bad ones.