Who remembers when people used to sell the pirate dvds on the streets of London back in the 2000s

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1. Our house still says “dvd, dvd” in sellers voice when we are considering putting one on.

2. [You wouldn’t steal a car..](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg)

3. U wan buy dvd! Usually a guy walking around the pubs with a satchel.

4. This was always hilarious 😂.

5. Don’t be daft nobody would do that, those were all just pavement artists who were really skilled with the chalk

6. Don’t overlook the selection of porn they use to have too!

7. I was clearing out the cupboard last week and found a load from back in the day, still had that smelly plastic smell in the case. *Shaun of the dead was one for age reference.

8. I remember I got Green Street, and it had some woman in a bikini on the cover who has absolutely nothing to do with the film

9. Christ. I still think of Milk as a reasonably recent picture.

10. I will always remember the time going through Camden market with a musician friend. There was a guy selling bootleg CDs rather than DVDs. My friend shuffled through them for a while, then asked to listen to a bit of one & bought it. He took it straight to a cop walking up the street & had the guy done for it, there & then.
    The CD was a bootleg of one of his own live gigs.

11. I watch a loaa DVDs

12. I remember when a bloke would come to the house with a bunch of VHS tapes in his boot and we were allowed 2 for the weekend.

13. Yes I remember this very well

    

14. The last pic made me remember ASBOs what did they actually do or mean?

15. You always used to find these guys outside Asda in Leyton Mills retail park. Also the guys playing 3 card monte

16. Had to explain the concept of the DVD man and the Fish man in pubs to the early 20s at work. Felt old as fuck.

    3 for a tenner or 4 if he was in a good mood.

17. One seller used to come round to the workplace in South Croydon and ring the buzzers of all the businesses in the park. Remember a colleague asking for the “special ones” lol

18. Used to get these offered all the time in bookies. Nowadays it’s only stuff people have shoplifted.

19. Flicking through finding nemo 5 and coming across porn 🤣

20. I used to always see em at Mare street Tesco 2005-2008

21. I miss these days, could either be the best quality copy of all time, or 8bit in Chinese. Still remember my tears when I loaded up Kung Fu Panda and it looked like an NES game.

22. Jiggy jiggy

23. Yes!! Early/Mid 2000s Kilburn High Street. I miss them. We were poor so bought from them & charity shops. Sometimes the DVD was great as it was ripped from a real DVD, sometimes it was a shitty recording from the cinema, it was a real gamble. I loved the flimsy plastic sheets with the crappy print inside it. Nostalgia lol.

    They used to come into McDonald’s to sell DVDs too. I can’t tell if they died out because of streaming online or because of crackdowns.

24. And in the ‘80s, it was pirated cassette tapes.

25. Used to be chilling with my kid chowing down in KFC after doing the Saturday shop. A guy would come round quite openly and we’d take our time choosing a few badly recorded films to bring home that evening. Think it was 3 for £5. Then on the way back Pop into the Pound Shop (most things were still actually a pound) and pick up some popcorn. The whole evening, sorted.

26. I remember peninsular Park in Charlton had tons of people asking if “U wan deeveedees” 😂

    Good times

27. I worked in Maplin Electronics in Forest Hill in the late 00s, and we would have someone come in every week trying to flog us pirated movies. Good old days.

28. “DVD, DVD, DVD! One for tree pounds, two for fivaaa, four for tennaaa!”

    *The voices ringing inside my head*

29. I remember the women walking into pubs with a suitcase full of these. Hope they’re all ok! Not sure they spoke a word of English or were there of their own free will…

30. Jiggy jiggy

31. “Premise: Not much is known about the premise yet, except that it revolves around a North Korean leader (Yune), who uses an experimental “facial mutation” device that allows him to take on new appearances… (turning into Stephens) until it goes wrong, leaving his face half mutilated.

    Also, the opening, in which James Bond is an escaping prisoner of war set in Hawaii, involves surfing and water skiing. (Madonna plays a fencing instructor; Madsen and Berry play U.S. secret agents)”

32. A city in decline it wasn’t always like this, we used to be able to get pirated DVDs at great price 😢

33. There was always a fine selection of pornography available

34. My mate usedto do this. He was like a coke dealer in a pub, once everyone was drunk theyd ask him for some pornos😂😂

35. Around my dad’s area they had door to door sellers. They’d test the waters selling towels and pegs etc. Then bust out DVD. They’d get annoyed with me when I tell them I torrent things LOL Great days

36. Guy used to come into my local with bags of DVDs and ask if there’s ’anything else you’d like?’.

37. This guy was my uncle 🤣🤣

38. Them were the days. Always used to get my bag searched each time I entered a pub as I was Chinese. Love a bit of racial profiling.

39. There was always a couple of these guys outside St George’s in Harrow Town centre. Also our local pub had a guy come around offering too

40. I always used to look at the disc to see how much data was burned as a rough guide to the quality!

41. One particular joy of pirate DVDs of that era was that you didn’t need to sit through the unskippable advert about movie piracy that played at the start of every legitimate DVD

42. Shepherds Bush KFC. If you needed an 8 in 1 for a cheap date night? IFYKYK 😂

43. I want one joovce lucdatuv and one Joovce doovde player….. Ready for da hood!

44. I often wonder what the DVD man is up to. What could he be selling now.

45. I saw a pair of undercovers nick a seller (wanted to say mush, you know it makes sense!) in Shepherds Bush. No wonder they were so shifty

46. Watched Click while it was still in theaters when my buddy bought one of these in NY. Really gave you the theater experience with the terrible audio and shadows from people getting up and coming back blocking out pieces of the movie sporadically.

47. ‘D-Wee-D’ man in the pub.

48. Who remember their dad magically appearing home with the latest films 🤣

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