That movie is almost impossible to find at any price. The few places I've seen the DVDs for sale are unknown & possibly bootlegger stores that I'd be afraid to leave my credit card number with. A couple years ago somebody at goody2shoes got a bootleg copy from a private seller at Amazon.
Universal is very strict about anybody selling, renting out, or showing the movie. They actively search out anybody with a copy available & shut them down.
I can't understand Universal Studios logic in this. They're going to sit on a movie for a million years until it rots away, gets lost, misplaced, or stolen, so they're not making a cent on it. But then they track down & close down anybody who has a copy available. If they're not going to sell or rent out the movie to make money on them anymore, why spend so much money, time, & effort to bust people for circulating the few copies still around in the public? It was easier to get a copy of the new Star Wars movie the day after it hit the theaters, or get the DVD & blu-ray weeks before they were in the stores, than it is to get that movie.
It's not on the torrents, usenet, & underground streams either.
Thank god for the bootleggers. How much great media would have been lost forever if it wasn't for the booleggers circulating copies around? Almost every month I read about someone discovering bootleg copy of a recording session by some great musician or band, where the originals were missing or presumed lost.
Every episode of YCDTOTV would have been lost forever if it wasn't for people posting their personal VHS tape recordings of it on the internet. So technically, every episode you've seen of it in the past 20-30 years came from a bootleg VHS copy illegally posted.
When will these media & film companies learn? After the BBC, CBC, Nick, MTV, & Universal lost so many thousands of classics & treasures of our past, you'd think they would have learned the lesson that just sitting on or vaulting old media until they decay, get destroyed, or turn up missing is not a good idea. If they're not going to try to use them & make money on them, they should at least hand them off to independent distributors or archivers to make copies to distribute so that they could survive for future generations.
All too often decades later there's a demand for that stuff, & the studios discover their "vaulted" restricted, & "copyrighted" copies of it have been damaged, destroyed, or are missing, so that the only evidence of the work are a few worn out blurry VHS tapes from someone's private collection.
I read about studios destroying entire rooms of tape & film, just because they no longer have an old machine that will play them. Rather than buy & restore an old machine to make new copies, they're just destroying the material.
Sadly much of that material was deliberately stored away for a few decades & kept from the public because it would be worth a lot more later. But later, they were destroyed or lost instead, so nobody made money on them.
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