Comments on: Borat DVD looks Pirated

By: Hollywood’s Piracy-Chic « Media SITREP

Hollywood’s Piracy-Chic « Media SITREP — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:30:30 +0000

[...] Slashfilm has more [...]

By: Jack Hynes

Jack Hynes — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:25:33 +0000

Yeah OnlyRumors I found that the outside was normal but I didn’t venture into the packaging. This is in a Welsh Morrisons.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:27:34 +0000

oh yeah… and the DVD inside appears burned… until you look at the underside

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:25:52 +0000

Bought the canadian version… o-card has english and french… case under is still as described… russian and bootleg-looking

By: pinder

pinder — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:38:01 +0000

I’m sure the Canadian version will mandate it have a French side

By: RetiredOrangemen.com: Orange Peel » Blog Archive » O-R-I-O-LLLLES! - Part 1

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:14:45 +0000

[...] - Borat seems to always be breaking new ground: Check out the cover of the new DVD, with ZERO words of English on it [...]

By: OnlyRumors

OnlyRumors — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:41:08 +0000

Actually, only the DVD case itself is printed in Russian. The O-card on the outside (what is visible when on the shelf) is printed in the Queen’s English.

By: Borat DVD looks pirated at

Borat DVD looks pirated at — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:27:08 +0000

[...] Borat DVD made to look pirated. “[T]here is not a word of English on the packaging. The DVD cover also appears to look color-copied (complete with off color tones, slightly blurred company logos, blurry text and moire pattern/lithographic scans.)” [...]

By: ‘Borat’ DVD Packaging Completes The D.I.Y. Kazakh Filmmaking Illusion at

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:06:29 +0000

[...] For the millions of you patiently awaiting the DVD release of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, either in anticipation of adding the film to your home video library, or merely to see if your slavery-endorsing and/or urinal-peek-a-boo scene might have by some miracle been excised from the final version despite a judge having ruled otherwise, March 6 will be the magic date to circle upon your calendars. The matter of how much, meanwhile, is looking to be a very nice suggested retail price of $19.95. Slashfilm.com has seen an advance copy, which is purposely designed to look as though you may have bartered for it from a toothless Kazakh street urchin for a bottle of goat urine: “[There’s] not a word of English on the packaging…[It looks] color-copied…complete with off color tones, slightly blurred company logos, blurry text and moire pattern/lithographic scans.” Whether the “HILARIOUS DeeVeeDee EXTRAS” touted on Borat’s official website will maintain the illusion remains to be seen, though we’re indifferent as to whether or not Ken Davitian’s commentary track comes from him or in character as producer Azamat Bagatov–as long as we get some kind of insight into just how stimulating Sacha Baron Cohen’s proboscis felt when he lowered his feculent taint upon it. [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:21:29 +0000

Don’t click on the photo it seemed to download some shit on to my computer

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:55:50 +0000

Thanks…
And it still doesn’t work fine but the link is great, thanks jack

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:16:27 +0000

Oh, my bad. It works fine.

By: Jack Hynes

Jack Hynes — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:14:47 +0000

Just click this link http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/boratdvdbig.jpg for the large version.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:34:30 +0000

hitting the image doesn’t work…