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| From: Mr
Klutch | Posted: 6/11/2001 9:45:26 PM | Delete
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I sent a copied
playstation game to someone in Europe, and it will undoubtedly pass
by the customs.
I've written "Soccer Pictures: 1964, 1965,
1966 and 1967" on the cover to help it pass, but I'm still not
sure.
Plus the whole thing is packaged in a bunch of japanese
papers packaged in a japanese paperboard postal envelope packaged in
a regular 8.5*11 format brown postal envelope taped like
crazy.
I hope the customs officers are not going to rip the
whole thing open, take the disk and put it in a playstation to test
if it can pass...
Oh my god!!
*hides under a
pillow* |
| From: Mr
Klutch | Posted: 6/11/2001 9:46:11 PM | Delete
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Typo: I hope no one will
notice
How the heck could I have spelled that
wrong?? |
| From: J
Dawg007 | Posted: 6/11/2001 9:46:36 PM | Mark
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That was
yours???
Security!!!!!
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signature as long as I live, and I'll be immortal until the day I
die... |
| From: The
Entity | Posted: 6/11/2001 9:47:30 PM | Mark
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All your illegal games
are belong to airport guard.
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I want to DELETE THAT!! What
if I just downloaded a ghost into my house!?
-Andariel,
download from Rent-A-Ghost |
| From: belthasarsnu
| Posted: 6/11/2001 9:47:42 PM | Mark
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HAHAHAHAHAAH dude, you
NEVER send copied PSX games in the mail. EVEN I KNOW
THAT.
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The Official GameFAQS Pirate™
Why buy
when you can burn? |
| From: Mr
Klutch | Posted: 6/11/2001 9:48:46 PM | Delete
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| Yeah, but they won't rip
open the package to put the disk in a computer, hey |
| From: Mr
Klutch | Posted: 6/11/2001 9:53:24 PM | Delete
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| I mean, do you really
think they'll find out? How can they? |
| From: belthasarsnu
| Posted: 6/11/2001 9:54:03 PM | Mark
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Airports have pirate
dogs that can sniff out a burnt cd from 10 miles
away.
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Why buy
when you can burn? |
| From: Mr
Klutch | Posted: 6/11/2001 10:13:19 PM | Delete
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Are you absolutely,
positively sure about this?? How can copied games be detected by
dogs? A copied CD is just like another CD except the data is
different, right? There was a sticker to fill for the customs and on
"contents" I put "CD-Rom" and on "value" I put 5$, since I think
that's about the price of a regular CD.
Please be honest here
since I really don't know what will happen now.
If they do
find out, then what will they do? I really don't think it's bad
enough to get any real serious trouble. Maybe a fine? |
| From: belthasarsnu
| Posted: 6/11/2001 10:14:56 PM | Mark
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Nothing will happen, I
was just joking around. 99.9% they wont check it. Even if they do,
the guards won't even know what a burnt game is. They will see its a
cd and they will be like "Ok, next"
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The Official
GameFAQS Pirate™
Why buy when you can
burn? |
| From: T
H E | Posted: 6/11/2001 10:15:53 PM | Mark
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I dont think anyone will
noticed
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"I'll get away or my name isn't rover... and it
isn't!"
-Possible the best comeback ever.
Ever |
| From: Mr
Klutch | Posted: 6/11/2001 10:18:47 PM | Delete
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| From: MustgetStoned2
| Posted: 6/11/2001 10:22:25 PM | Mark
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you certainly are a
paranoid guy
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skillz!!!
http://supergreg.is.back.ms |
| From: T
H E | Posted: 6/11/2001 10:24:15 PM | Mark
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Actually, they do have
these new things which detect pirated anythings... what they do is
the machines automatically opens your bag, checks for anything which
can be pirated, insert them into the appropriate machine, and then
it will be displayed. If it is pirated the FBI/SWAT will be phoned
with the persons address...
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"I'll get away or my name
isn't rover... and it isn't!"
-Possible the best comeback
ever. Ever |
| From: Mr
Klutch | Posted: 6/11/2001 10:28:48 PM | Delete
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I don't know, I just
didn't want to pass a few months in jail and have the rest of my
life ruined because of a stupid game.
I was also planning on
telling the police that I have ennemies in the neighborhood that
probably sent the copied game using my adress, and I've actually
practiced that speech in front of a mirror. Even tried to think of a
new form of handwriting so that they'll compare my new handwriting
to the one on the package. I've also started practicing controling
my emotions for when I would have to pass on the lie detection
machine. I have long hair so I was also planning on getting a
haircut tomorrow so that the woman who was at the counter will have
a hard time identifying me to the court.
But seriously,
what's the worst that can happen to me if they find out? Like if
they have a powerful laser that can see data in a cd even with the
package, and they'll notice from the files it's a copied PSX
game? |
| From: Mr
Klutch | Posted: 6/11/2001 10:30:28 PM | Delete
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If it is pirated the
FBI/SWAT will be phoned with the persons
address...
Actually, I don't have the FBI problem since I
live in Canada. But there are obviously equivalents that do the same
thing. |
| From: Mysterio
| Posted: 6/11/2001 10:31:44 PM | Mark
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Just reading the posts
on this topic is nothing but funny!
FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!
LOL!!!!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
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BUSH ALL THE
WAY!
"Hey Yo!" -'The Legendary', Scott
Hall |
| From: random1982
| Posted: 6/11/2001 10:32:56 PM | Mark
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Are you profiting from
it?
Cause unless they can prove that you're running a
business they won't do crap trust me.
Oh and I wouldn't
worry anyways unless it smells funny or someone tips them off or it
feels like liquid it wont get opened.
Can anyone else tell I
used to work in the international packages section of the uk postal
system?
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Poptart, will it matter? If i lose and just
shatter?
Will you cry, and keep crying? Will i die, and keep
dying? |
| From: Mysterio
| Posted: 6/11/2001 10:35:09 PM | Mark
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No.
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BUSH
ALL THE WAY!
"Hey Yo!" -'The Legendary', Scott
Hall |
| From: Mr
Klutch | Posted: 6/11/2001 10:45:16 PM | Delete
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No, I'm not profiting
from it. I sent it for free and I refused to get anything in return
(he proposed to send me copied DBZ videos or money but I already
have all the videos and I don't want to make money out of my
friends).
But are you sure they won't do anything if they
happen to find the package suspect and actually investigate it? The
sticker did say in both french and english "may be opened
officially". Maybe was the "Soccer pictures" hand written on the
cover of the CD a bit too hard to believe? (I know they'll see that
because of their machines). |
| From: random1982
| Posted: 6/11/2001 10:45:53 PM | Mark
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Illegal or not when was
the last time you saw anyone going to jail for giving someone a copy
of a game?
Trust me the only people that get prosecuted for
it are people who are pumpking these things out by the score and
making a decent profit out of it thats all anyone's inerested
in.
Secondly. They won't open it.
Thirdly. they won't
open it trust me on this will not happen, we got taught to look for
three main signs. If it smells of coffee, marzipan or fels like a
bomb it'll get inspected and possibly opened. If it doesn't fall
under any of those it will not get opened, relax. You have any idea
how many packages go through those kinda places? You really think
they get a close inspection.
Fourth. If you're still not
convinced I've done it, and nothing happened to me. I sent a burned
copy of xenogears from the UK to the user slipknotted in australia.
Am I in jail?
Just relax you are completly
safe.
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Poptart, will it matter? If i lose and just
shatter?
Will you cry, and keep crying? Will i die, and keep
dying? |
| From: Mr
Klutch | Posted: 6/11/2001 11:00:42 PM | Delete
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OK, but it is actually
written "CD-ROM" on the customs thing... (I've added the "-ROM"
because most people that know a lot on computers just use "CD", so I
thought it would maybe tear the suspicion down by a tad bit). But
the piracy thing is so big these days that even the girl at the
counter of the postal office probably suspected something like "I
betcha this guy is sending something illegal--17 years old, long
hair, blood all over his t-shirt... the perfect example of a
pirate". And yes, I did have blood all over my t-shirt because I
fell from my bicycle on the way to the postal office and tried to
block with my hands and got my right hand scratched pretty bad, so I
holded my t-shirt tight to stop the bleeding and on different places
on each grip so I almost looked like I got stabbed. Luckily I had
the package in my plastic basket on my bike or else I would have
both hands full.
But OK I'm kinda relieved that they probably
won't notice but the above post about the guard dogs have given me
big chills and I ran downstairs to hide all my PSX games and
wondering why such a little thing would ruin my life. I could easily
picture the cops on my front door saying "You're under arrest for
pirating and copyright violation" and I would have replied "What are
you talking about? Pirating? I don't even know how to print stuff so
how in the would would I be able to pirate someone?"....
Man
I really hope nothing happen my heart is still beating like crazy
now. |
| From: belthasarsnu
| Posted: 6/11/2001 11:01:44 PM | Mark
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Your crazy. Do you know
how many games I have burnt? Do you see something happening to me?
No, because I am the offical GF Pirate/
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GameFAQS Pirate™
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burn? |
| From: random1982
| Posted: 6/11/2001 11:03:34 PM | Mark
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No reason apart from I'm
plain curious, how long ago did you post it?
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Poptart,
will it matter? If i lose and just shatter?
Will you cry, and
keep crying? Will i die, and keep dying? |
| From: dcdaytona
| Posted: 6/11/2001 11:07:20 PM | Mark
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yeah man you should get
rid of everything quick!!!
I had a friend who did that and he
is serving 5 years now ;_;
If only he
knew...
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DC! RPGInsider.com |
| From: Mr
Klutch | Posted: 6/11/2001 11:08:25 PM | Delete
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Well, I too have burned
a lot of games but I never send them by mail. Usually I would just
rent it and copy it for personal use without telling anyone about it
(I could have bought them, but I would never have had the spare
money to allow me to get all these games). I've given some friends
burned games too, but it was in person. I don't know anything about
airport customs or police or stuff like that so I was a bit scared
about what they might do when they see a CD come. I don't know about
the US, but the police and custom here in Montreal are so official
looking that it's really scary. Once I came back from Europe and
while my mother was in line to declare lost luggage I passed the
thing to meet my father on the other side, then when I went to meet
my mother back they wouldn't let me enter when they just SAW me go
out! I said I went to see my dad and I have to help my mother and
grandmother who almost don't speak a word of french or english and
they still wouldn't let me in and told me that I could get arrested
if I insisted more.
So actually it's normal for me to really
wonder what these scary people would do with someone that sent a
pirated game and was stupid enough to put his own adress on the box
along with the recipient. |
| From: Mr
Klutch | Posted: 6/11/2001 11:10:14 PM | Delete
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No reason apart from
I'm plain curious, how long ago did you post it?
Did I
post what? The original topic? About 3 hours ago.
If you're
talking about the package I sent it this very morning (post offices
are closed on week-ends here). |
| From: random1982
| Posted: 6/11/2001 11:15:13 PM | Mark
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Actually I was thinking
the package.
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Poptart, will it matter? If i lose and
just shatter?
Will you cry, and keep crying? Will i die, and keep
dying? |
| From: random1982
| Posted: 6/11/2001 11:16:50 PM | Mark
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Oh well you'll only half
to wait about a week then you can relax.
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Poptart, will
it matter? If i lose and just shatter?
Will you cry, and keep
crying? Will i die, and keep dying? |
| From: Library
Boy | Posted: 6/11/2001 11:18:56 PM | Mark
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*still has that copy of
Xenogears*
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"At least I could bring a bat and beat
the snot out of a few people." - Alterwolf, about a GameFAQ's
Convention. |
| From: Mr
Klutch | Posted: 6/11/2001 11:32:25 PM | Delete
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| Hey random, the coffee
thing is because coke bags hidden in a box full of coffee grounds
can't be detected by dogs, right? I saw it in a
movie. |
Coin-Op