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Please send me all your bootlegs for inspection.

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Originally Posted by matome

Inserts are now a relic from the past. Nowadays if your DVD doesn't come with a neat-o slipcover that duplicates the keepcase cover, it's probably a bootleg! :lol:

Not really. I buy lots of used DVD's from places like Hastings, Movie Gallery, and Hollywood Video, and they rarely have slipcovers --even from Movie Gallery where inserts, if issued, usually come with the DVD.

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Originally Posted by Jackskeleton

There's a lot of ways to tell bootlegs apart. Missing insert isn't one of them. Look on the cover to see if it's photocopied quality. Bar codes?

Not necessarily so. I have bought used DVDs from places like Hastings where the DVD is sold in a case without cover art. Hastings also sells DVDs used that came in snap cases and puts the cardboard cover in a keep case as cover art for the DVD. I usually download substitute cover art or scan the snap case art and use it instead, and I'm sure plenty of other people do this as well.