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“I love bootleg merch,” she said, adding, “It can be better than the original artist’s design, because fans sometimes know what fans want more than the artist.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

One single bootleg upload by independent journalist Matthew Keys amassed well over 600,000 views in a matter of hours.

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

Bradley got work dancing at Connie’s Inn, the exclusive Harlem black-and-tan club where the draw for white patrons was bootleg liquor and black entertainers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

Even Cook bought bootleg copies of the song, some of which had been taped off his live sets on BBC Radio 1 and pressed to vinyl.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

Bolo was friends with this white kid and fellow pirate named Daniel, who traded in bootleg CDs.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

Stream much of Season 1 to 5 free on Pluto; bootlegs of individual episodes are easy to find online.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2023

By 2005, people were eagerly swapping bootlegs, demos and gossip on dedicated message boards.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2022

But they bit on fakes and bootlegs and gave up 98 rushing yards to quarterbacks.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2022

At the Senior Bowl in February, Strong tried to show teams how much his mobility on bootlegs and in the pocket had progressed.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2022

The splintered shards were piled high against his brake: he had not paused to clear them out of his way except around his bootlegs.

From The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields by James Lane Allen

My TV habit included rental-store tapes of bootlegged movies and shows dubbed from American TV.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

In the salons I went to as a child, I remember men peddling bootlegged movies and fashions to the clients with their hair wrapped or freshly sheened as they dug for cash in their purses.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

Atlanta’s young quarterback, Desmond Ridder, bootlegged for a 6-yard touchdown on fourth-and-4 with just under 12 minutes remaining.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

He was unaware of his popularity abroad, which partly stemmed from bootlegged copies of his album Cold Fact circulating in South Africa, where it been adopted as an unofficial soundtrack to youth protests against apartheid.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2023

I wish I could stop one of them and give them sage advice about the future and bootlegged exams.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

Ryan Coogler’s bootlegging, Southern vampire blockbuster is smart, ambitious, original and masterfully executed — a classic best picture contender.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

The two are stunned to discover Helen’s passionate letters in addition to hints about bootlegging and a jewelry heist.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

“We’re in an impossible situation that’s reminiscent of the Prohibition era, where the federal government prohibited alcoholic beverages, bootlegging was rampant, and that’s exactly what’s happening in the District today,” Mendelson said.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2022

The Premier League has previously pursued legal action against Saudi links to the bootlegging of its match broadcasts, whose rights are owned by Qatar’s beIN Sports.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2020

Foreign bootlegging of minerals is so thorough that our neighbor the French Congo, without a single diamond mine in its borders, is the world’s fifth-largest exporter of diamonds.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver