June 30, 2001

10:47 AM

Oh me oh my:Video bootleggers have flooded the underground market with thousands of copies of a film labeled Pearl Harbor that contains only five minutes of the actual movie. The rest of the video contains hard porn material featuring Caucasian and Asian actors. All together now: At Least It's More Interesting Than The Actual Movie. (link only good until the morning of July 2nd)
posted by logovisual (10 comments total)

Since the article's going to vanish in 48 hours, here's the short full text. Copyright its author, etc. etc.


The government of Malaysia said today (Friday) that video bootleggers have flooded the underground market with thousands of copies of a film labeled Pearl Harbor that contains only five minutes of the actual movie. The rest of the video contains hard porn material featuring Caucasian and Asian actors, the government said. Mohamad Helmi Hassan, an official of the Home Ministry (comparable to the U.S. Dept. of Justice), warned: "Parents should be careful and make sure they are buying the original version of Pearl Harbor for their children." No legal video copies of the movie have been distributed anywhere in the world.
posted by logovisual at 10:49 AM on June 30, 2001

I can't even properly express how excellent that is. I will be grinning for several hours now. Thank you hardcore pornographers!
posted by frenetic at 12:46 PM on June 30, 2001

Wish I'd gone to see that one instead.
posted by dong_resin at 6:21 PM on June 30, 2001

..some of the finest people in the world are video and software pirates. Gods among men, I tell you.
posted by aramaic at 8:52 PM on June 30, 2001

That's like the time I bought a bootleg copy of "For the Love of the Game" and it lasted only five minutes before cutting to 2 hrs. of some guy masturbating.
posted by Sellersburg/Speed at 12:26 AM on July 1, 2001

> That's like the time I bought a bootleg copy of "For
> the Love of the Game" and it lasted only five minutes
> before cutting to 2 hrs. of some guy masturbating.

It was For Love of the Game, but your eyes glazed over after the first five minutes, and then refocused on the reflection in the television screen.
posted by pracowity at 3:51 AM on July 1, 2001

um, i just got back from singapore... went across the causeway and bought up big on VCDs... one of which was Pearl Harbour.... haven't watched it yet.... mainly because i thought it was going to be boring..... i guess i'd better have a look now....
posted by johnboy at 4:18 AM on July 1, 2001

> before cutting to 2 hrs. of some guy masturbating.

Boy that must have been sore afterwards.
posted by kerplunk at 5:38 AM on July 2, 2001

did you watch all 2 hours?
posted by elsar at 7:53 AM on July 2, 2001

IMDB hasn't noticed that their copy is actually entitled Pearl Necklace Harbor.
posted by Skot at 8:16 AM on July 2, 2001