Cheeky Fucking Pirate Scum News Posted by John Hoare on 14th February 2007, 04:59 Hmmm. So, the thought process goes as follows: What the fuck is with that logo? In fact, what the fuck is with that packaging? Region 0? DVD-R? Oh, for fuck’s sake, it’s cheeky fucking pirate scum. Firstly, let’s have the obligatory making fun of the descriptions. And this goes beyond making fun of “Frankenstine”, as it contains my favourite error ever in a synopsis of the show: “In the year 2077 Lister awoke only to find out the crew has been wiped out and that the ship was lost in the middle of deep space.” This is the same description admits that the radiation leak happened three million years ago. So, the Dwarf crew come from around three million years BC. Fantastic. Secondly: 18 discs, but “Special Features: None”? If you’re going to pirate something, have the decency to actually investigate what the fuck it is you’re pirating. Still, at least they’re going the whole hog with it – that cover picture is nicked from the cover of the Red Dwarf RPG. I can’t even begin to think what they were doing with that logo, though. Thirdly: $179.99? A bit of research gives the proper boxset for sale for $169.43 at Deep Discount – and that’s free shipping! Isn’t the whole point of pirate DVDs to, you know, be cheaper than the official releases? Seriously, this is fucking shocking. TV Addicts are the lowest of the low. I’ll admit that I don’t exactly follow the strict law of copyright; I co-run this site, for instance, and fansites are always on tricky ground copyright-wise. But I tend to go by what I think is right morally, and fansites are generally good for any franchise. Distributing shows for free that aren’t commercially available, I have no problem with either. Making a profit on shows that aren’t available is wrong, however. And as for making a profit by pirating shows that have been released on DVD – and utterly brilliant DVD releases at that – it’s fucking outrageous. There is absolutely no possible justification for it. Worse still, it’s presented as an official release – so plenty of people who don’t know better probably buy this crap. And looking round the rest of the site just made me even more angry – so many people are being utterly ripped-off. The sooner they are shut down the better. The fucking, fucking, fucking cunts.
I must just say – thanks to Danny for mentioning this. And TAKING TEN YEARS OFF MY LIFE through increased blood pressure.
‘Tis no different with other releases– I recently discovered a highly suspicious set of Brittas Empire DVDs in region 1 (Brittas DVDs were only ever made in region 2) on eBay, if you remember? Pirate scum are everwhere.
>> What do you think about this Andrew? >You can?t GUESS?! Is it’s something very close to “The fucking, fucking, fucking cunts.” but with perhaps some extra Fuckings added and another cunt or two on the end. Scum, subhuman Scum.
Well that how I came across the website in the first place. It was when I was checking my Gmail account and it gives relevant ads from the emails – and there it was… Bastards….
… As a devout Dwarfer Geek, I have to say “Please God No!!!” Who inflicts such horrors as this? The year 2077???? *cries*
Of course the real crime here, the absolute hanging offense, is the use of a possessive apostrophe where it says “Menu’s Yes”. Mr Flibble is VERY cross…
Totally, fucking appalling. The Night Gallery, Quantum Leap and Blake’s 7 “sets” piss me off as well to the absolute fucking extreme. Although the copying of proper merchandise pisses me off, what *really* oversteps the mark is blatantly ripping-off consumers who are unaware of the scam. Fortunately, the packaging and presentation are such a work of complete incompetence that it’s pretty easy to guess they’re not the real McCoy. Tossers.
Yeah, it’s also the fact that it’s not just Dwarf – there’s *so* many people being completely ripped off here. Fucking cunts. TV Addicts? VD Knobheads, more like!!!!!111
The front cover is from Wallpaper off the official site. Nice. They sell a lot of cool stuff which you can’t get anywhere else, though.
Lol! That IS provided they actually sell anything! Try using their “LIVE SUPPORT”! I’m sure they’re just ripping off a lot of people, then they’ll close and disappear. I’m sure there’s somewhere we could report them?
Who the hell would buy from these fucktards? All the DVDs look wank, the site is ropey as fuck and they dont even use a secure checkout ffs!
>Who the hell would buy from these fucktards? Other fucktards? I mean, didn’t P.T. Barnum say “There’s a fucktard born every minute”?
I’ve just sspoken to there sales person and clicking on there Live Support button and I asked them about some other titles and they said “our DVDs are taped form televisions”. Hmmmmmm
I bet some of them are, as they aren’t available on DVD. But I’m willing to bet the Dwarf ones are DVD rips – unless they’ve got the number of discs wrong, of course, but it’s difficult to see how they would come up with the number 18 otherwise. Either way, they’re still a pack of cunts.
On the mind-bendingly unlikely off-chance that some other idiot stumbled across this twenty years after the fact and is curious, you can still see the shit and awful thing on the Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20070402064359/http://www.tvaddicts.tv:80/movie/sci-fi/Red_Dwarf.html
Three million years ago, a massive radiation leak killed the crew of the Red Dwarf. The only survivor was Dave Lister who was sentenced to 6-months suspended animation as he smuggled his pet cat named Frankenstine on board. In the year 2077 Lister awoke only to find out the crew has been wiped out and that the ship was lost in the middle of deep space. Dave Lister was the only human being alive on-board Red Dwarf. He is not alone, accompanying him are Holly, the ship’s computer that intelligence is rapidly decreasing, a hologram of his bunkmate Arnold Rimmer, a cat that is a humanoid which evolved from Lister’s cat Frankenstine and Kryten, a robot rescued from the American space cruised known as the Nova 5. Ah! It’s enough to make one nostalgic for the days when you could be certain that errors like these were the result of 100% genuine, hand-crafted human incompetence, and not caused by someone copying and pasting whatever an LLM has spat out.
Regular price $299 so you got a bargain with the discount. Back in the day where a bootleg DVD set of I – VIII could cost this much. The past is indeed a foreign country.
I used to buy cheap pirate DVDs around that time when I considered the real ones too expensive for what you got and when they were shows I’d be watching alone and not inflicting their VHS-par quality on others. So pretty much some Star Trek ones.
I think the only ones like that that I ever got were Police Squad! when it wasn’t available legitimately.
I used to get rip-off Pirate VHS that was recorded off DVDs, but never the other way around. Fascinating.
Speaking of bootlegs you’d like to own, I’ve toyed with idea of this Mary Whitehouse Experience one for years: https://www.bookofthedead.ws/online_portfolio/br_the_mary_whitehouse_experience_blu-ray.html Properly lovingly-made, comprehensive collection of out-of (and never likely to be in) print material. I’ve also been eyeing their Gamesmaster and Knightmare sets, but I’m particularly tickled by the absurdity of this one:
