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The New Bootlegging Frontier
Bootleggers in Mexico are nothing if not creative.
The latest fad in piracy is putting a recording artist’s entire discography in MP3 format, burning it onto a single disc, and selling it for $2.
In downtown Mexico City, you can find everything recorded by bands like The Strokes, Nirvana and Led Zeppelin, both live and in studio, in one neat little package.
Just the logical culmination of technology and ingenuity. I guess.
I’ve also stumbled on workshops dedicated to making the PlayStation 2 bootlegger-friendly. The game console won’t play cloned games unless, that is, a special chip is welded into its motherboard. On Saturdays at certain markets, you can find lines of kids and grownups alike with their PS2s in hand waiting to see the repairman. After he’s done re-wiring their machines, they can buy burned copies of Madden 2007 or Guitar Hero for less than $1.
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