Finding Nemo. Prejean sees it first. But then there's an entire table covered in new releases. "These are still in theaters," he says to the couple behind a table. Then he fishes out his badge and tells them he's confiscating the discs. The couple plays dumb - they got the discs online at ThreeDollarDVD.com and drove down from Alabama to resell them. They thought they were legitimate.
"Three-dollar DVD?" Prejean asks, looking serious and taking notes.
Later, after he's returned to the office and logged the confiscated DVDs as evidence, he sits down at his computer and pulls up the site. Sure enough, almost all of Hollywood's hot releases are for sale.
He checks Whois, the public database that lists the owners of Web domain names. The search returns a mailing address in China. Prejean is not surprised. China is the world capital of boot-leg DVDs, and
the discs he confiscated had Chinese lettering on them. What does surprise him is the site's administrative contact address: [email protected]. It doesn't sound very Chinese.
That guy is a fucking idiot!