Entry: Why I keep buying pirated DVDs: March 1, 2007



  • The original ones cost about 180.000 Rupiahs or like US$18. Cheap? You'd think. Here, that equals to:

    • 3 times my sushi lunch bill with best friends
    • 40 liters of gas
    • my cell phone bill in a month
    • 720 text messages sent
    • 18 months of school fee for those children my mom and her gang sponsored
    • 36 meal sets of rice-sautéed spinach-fried egg-soy bean cake-chili if you're eating at warteg
    • 18 packs of Marlboro Lights Menthol's band roll price with additional change of 1800 Rupiahs
    • one airplane ticket Jkt - Singapore with AirAsia
    • electricity bill for a month when I used to live with friends in a town house
    • 12 times going to the movies
    • 3 hair-spa
    • 36 times shaving your head bald under the tree, plus back massage
    • half a DVD player (360.000 rupiahs it costs, in case math sickens you)
    • 180 hours straight talking with Esia's CDMA phone
    • 36 Oreo McFlurry I love, not - including extra 10% tax.

Yeap, and who are losing big profit? Hollywood stars and producers with million dollar beach house? I figure it's okay.

  • The pirated ones cost 6000 rupiahs or US$0.6. Actually it's 5000 in Mangga Dua, except I don't really like going there.
  • Those pirates (aren't they called pirates, the people who copied DVDs?) tape new season of TV shows like Desperate Housewives 3, Lost 3, Heroes, Ghost Whisperer 2, Gilmore Girls 7 and I'm crazy lunatic for TV series.
  • Some pirates taped the movies from theater, so every once in a while you'd see someone standing up to go to the loo, coughing, boo-ing when they don't agree with something. It's like you're there really. I don't usually buy this type though.
  • The fake cover is really fun to read. They look pretty real, images, fonts like the original. But the body copy! Sometimes they just grab random reviews from the net and put it in the front cover, trying to be Roeper & Ebert and all, sometimes all they can find is: Really not amusing. I find it hard to laugh. Two thumbs down.
  • Try not to read the cover for major TV series. Basically they copy-paste the same text for all season. For example in 24 season 1 after I watched a few episodes and wanted to take a good look at the cast (careful spoiler!), I figure that Nina's the bad guy. They fuckin write the plot of season 2 in the back of season 1. How fun, right
  • Laughing at the some of my favorite DVDs and thanking God that I'm not a movie star with holes in their body parts, like the whole cast of Seinfeld:

 

Listening to: Goldfrapp - Train

wolflady sucks my brain, apricot, sunrise came, LA nights just roll in, can't stop oh off the train, train, nasal douche, poolside line, softlit tan, what's your sign, hold my hand, just roll in

   6 comments

Rio
July 28, 2007   11:58 AM PDT
 
kalo suka tv series, kemarin saya baru tau ternyata ada yg jualan yg paling baru + oldies, formatnya dvd rip, jadi cuma 2 dvd, gambarnya jauh lebih bagus ternyata..macam2 tv series deh, alamatnya dikasi tau teman di www.traktorku.co.nr...just share info..i like this post, awesome.
dodski
July 8, 2007   06:42 PM PDT
 
whuuaaa... gw punya DVD seinfeld itu lho! and itu adalah favorit gw... yg gw liat berkali-kali... karena ga pernah bosen ama guyonan seinfeld :D
Name
March 21, 2007   04:45 PM PDT
 
you are my favorite writer and this one's cRazy enough !! peace on !!
miund
March 13, 2007   02:15 PM PDT
 
you're damn right.

except i didn't wanna kill myself. i wanna kill sylar.

bwahahahakkahkhk...
chacha
March 11, 2007   05:21 PM PDT
 
oowow.. and after all these weeks of waiting. i heard the ending episodes of season 1 make you want to kill yourself out of curiosity though.. just a gentle reminder. hee hee.
miund
March 11, 2007   02:32 PM PDT
 
and you know what i found amusing?

how did those pirates come up with "HEROES: SEASON 1 A"

hahaaaahahahahakhakakk!!!

and my boyfriend just called and told me he has the part C already! am sooooo gonna watch it tonite.

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