Piracy Strikes Again! Hollywood Bleeds! Ah God, the Humanity!
Posted on 05.28.06 by Widge @ 11:42 pm

I counted no fewer than seventeen pirate DVDs of The DaVinci Code for sale on the streets of New York–every single guy with pirate discs spread out on a blanket or tarp had a few. And that was just over two or three blocks. So piracy has fucked Hollywood yet again! That's why Ron Howard's latest has had an abysmal…

…what's that? The movie's made over $136 million to date domestically?

Wait, and more than $288 million internationally? Really?

Oh. Hell. Never mind.


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