At 92, A Bandit To Hollywood But A Hero To Soldiers

New York Times:

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. — One of the world’s most prolific bootleggers of Hollywood DVDs loves his morning farina. He has spent eight years churning out hundreds of thousands of copies of “The Hangover,” “Gran Torino” and other first-run movies from his small Long Island apartment to ship overseas.

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Comments

[krsims20]

02:57 PM on 05/01/2012

Well, hope they don't come to get him...

[rewith85man]

08:46 PM on 04/30/2012

It is like a thief helping his family, friends, or loyal customers as he steals from anonymous/random victims.

Two wrongs don't make it right.

[Kegfarms]

11:06 PM on 05/10/2012

Too bad for you that copyright infringement is not theft. You have to actually take something for it to be theft. Pirating a movie is just making a copy.

[sedagive42]

10:14 AM on 04/29/2012

Maybe his new hobby (as community service as his pound of flesh), once the troops are home, can be teaching computers to "old folks" in his local community. Sounds like a hoot to me.

[971]

11:15 PM on 04/28/2012

I can't wait until I'm a 92 year old Jew so I can break the law with impunity.