Word: bootleged
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...bootleg CD boom began in 1988 with the appearance of the Ultra Rare Trax series, a high-fidelity compendium of alternate versions and outtakes of songs by the Beatles. Since then, the market has been flooded with CDs featuring live concerts and unreleased tracks by such performers as Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, R.E.M. and Bruce Springsteen. One of the most sought-after bootlegs is Prince's so-called Black Album, which his label, Warner Bros., has never released at the singer's request. Since May, bootleg copies of outtakes from U2's unfinished new album have been...
...broadcasts, sneaking portable recorders into live concerts, surreptitiously tapping into studio mixing boards or even bribing studio executives. Once the pirates have their booty, they pay legitimate CD manufacturers to produce discs from the master tapes, which are often labeled with a bogus name to escape detection. Most bootleg CDs are made in Germany, Italy and Eastern Europe, where lax regulation and sketchy copyright laws make enforcement difficult. The illicit CDs are then smuggled into the U.S., where they are sold for prices ranging from...
...Lite rookie QB Bud Dry will purposely "fumble" the snap (place the ball on the ground behind the center) and fake first a sweep and then a bootleg to the right. One of the guards will pick up the loose ball and roll out to the left, protected only by the tight end and the wide receiver on that side. The receiver will then break off his block and drop back to receive a lateral from the guard...
...justice. Even liberals tend to believe the country's methods deter crime better than those of the West. The prohibitions on drinking and other vices do not rankle much. Many simply get around them by leading double lives: pious in public, more freewheeling at home and on overseas forays. Bootleg liquor is easily available. The euphemism for home-brew whiskey is "brown," while gin is called "white"; at parties people will say, "I'll have some brown in a + Coke," or "I'll have some white in a Sprite...
...Japan's environmental agency. Earlier this year, he voiced his strongly nationalistic views in a 160-page volume called The Japan That Can Say No. The book has gained considerable attention in his own country and caused some dismay in Washington, where it is now circulating in an unauthorized bootleg translation...