WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan 650
nbauman writes "WW2 veteran 'Big Hy' Strachman, 92, pirated 300,000 DVD movies and sent them to soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, where they were widely distributed and deeply appreciated. Soldiers would gather around personal computers for movie nights, with mortars blasting in the background. 'It's reconnecting to everything you miss,' said one. Strachman received American flags, appreciative letters, and snapshots of soldiers holding up their DVDs. He spent about $30,000 of his own money. Strachman retired from his family's window and shade business in Manhattan in the 1990s. After his wife Harriet died in 2003, he spent sleepless nights on the Internet, and saw that soldiers were consistently asking for movie DVDs. He bought bootlegged disks for $5 in Penn Station, and then found a dealer at his local barbershop. He bought a $400 duplicater that made 7 copies at once, and mailed them 84 at a time, to Army Chaplains. The MPAA said they weren't aware of his operation. The studios send reel-to-reel films to the troops."
The studios send reel-to-reel films to the troops. (Score:5, Funny)
Nice to see the studios have been keeping up with the times.
Reel-to-Reel? (Score:5, Funny)
Are they talkies at least?
War criminal (Score:5, Funny)
Sending a bunch of crappy bootleg cams to the troops should be considered a war crime.
Get this geezer a copy of vlc and some Matroskas stat.
Re:The MPAA Lawyers have never played this nice.. (Score:5, Funny)
The opposition has never had thermonuclear weapons.
Seriously? (Score:5, Funny)
The studios send reel-to-reel films to the troops.
Did you send them vinyl records too?
Maybe a few laserdiscs?
Re:That (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well that's okay (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well that's okay (Score:5, Funny)
JAVAnese? Shit, my understanding of WWII is totally off!
Re:The studios send reel-to-reel films to the troo (Score:5, Funny)
He's going to find out he just doubled our national debt. Intentional copyright infringement = more than statutory damages.