Bootlegs for the Troops
“If I were younger, maybe I’d be spending time in the hoosegow.”
The New York Times tells the incredible story of 92-year-old WWII vet Hyman Strachman and his unique effort to support the troops by bootlegging thousands of Hollywood DVDs and sending them to troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Strachman duplicates the disks in his Long Island, NY apartment using a professional duplicating machine and estimates that he’s sent over 300,000 disks overseas since starting making copies to fill time after the death of his wife in 2003. +Continue Reading
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