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This is not new: authorities in Vietnam perennially and publicly bust bootleg vendors to show that they are doing something about the country's ubiquitous shadow economies.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

We’ve even bought bootleg merch at Mexican markets and on Temu or AliExpress too,” Roy said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

One single bootleg upload by independent journalist Matthew Keys amassed well over 600,000 views in a matter of hours.

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

Bradley got work dancing at Connie’s Inn, the exclusive Harlem black-and-tan club where the draw for white patrons was bootleg liquor and black entertainers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

Winchell fakes the hand-off and goes around the right end on a bootleg, angling for the end zone.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

Many of the tracks, including Fugitive's Dream and Don't Back Down on Our Love, have circulated on bootlegs for years, but will finally be heard in studio quality.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2025

After its initial theatrical run, Lindsay-Hogg’s film largely disappeared for more than a half-century with the exception of low-quality VHS versions and bootlegs.

From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2024

But they bit on fakes and bootlegs and gave up 98 rushing yards to quarterbacks.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2022

Jackson, who originally saw the movie years removed from that 1970 context, and who as a teen listened to bootlegs like “Hahst Az Sön” that revealed the pleasure the Beatles took in jamming together, agrees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2021

The trousers were checkered, of ash-gray color, and his sapogi had short, unblacked military bootlegs.

From Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich

My TV habit included rental-store tapes of bootlegged movies and shows dubbed from American TV.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

One of the world's most bootlegged recordings - Fatboy Slim's Satisfaction Skank - is finally being released, after the Rolling Stones gave belated approval for the song's pivotal sample.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

When Slim is reluctant to skip his steady gig for these sharks, Stack almost magically gifts him a bootlegged Irish beer from Chicago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

In the salons I went to as a child, I remember men peddling bootlegged movies and fashions to the clients with their hair wrapped or freshly sheened as they dug for cash in their purses.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

There is an ancient-looking air conditioner hanging on to the ledge of the bootlegged window, and the glass above the machine has been covered with a piece of decorative cloth.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

We have made a lot of experimental moves with the way we’ve released records — bootlegging stuff for free.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025

To combat the bootlegging, his team chose to persuade major retailers to buy scrunchies from them rather than seek damages through litigation.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022

Elsewhere, Rosalía raps, “I think I’m Dapper Dan,” high fashion’s onetime bootlegging remixer.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022

Such ostentatious displays of wealth helped place Olmstead’s bootlegging racket in the crosshairs of the Seattle Prohibition office, which moved all its manpower and resources to take him down as quickly as possible.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2021

“What could be more dangerous than a fake quarantine and a town-sponsored bootlegging operation?”

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool