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This is not new: authorities in Vietnam perennially and publicly bust bootleg vendors to show that they are doing something about the country's ubiquitous shadow economies.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Retatrutide is so effective that a gray market for bootleg versions of the drug, which hasn’t been approved for sale, has been thriving for more than two years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025

Various deluxe editions also come with bootleg recordings from a 1975 concert, concert films on Blu-ray, a hardcover book with never-seen photographs, a comic-book tour poster and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025

Look for X’s John Doe as a purveyor of bootleg caviar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

In my grail diary, I had every single Rush song, album, bootleg, and music video ever made.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

And presumably, he can print some crazy, one-off Deep Purple bootlegs just for himself?

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2023

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

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2022

There are tour rehearsals, audio experiments, handwritten lyrics, stacks of Velvet Underground bootlegs and even Coney Island Mermaid Parade banners from 2010, when Reed and Anderson served as king and queen.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 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

But a growing number of fans say a crackdown on bootlegged merchandise is hampering that spirit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Indians are more likely to find bootlegged versions than to find them streaming on commercial platforms.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024

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

There is an ancient-looking air conditioner hanging on to the ledge of the bootlegged window, and the glass above the machine has been covered with a piece of decorative cloth.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

With four simple words, a sport that was born out of bootlegging, good ole boys and fast cars graduated from a regional sideshow to a national spectacle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023

To combat the bootlegging, his team chose to persuade major retailers to buy scrunchies from them rather than seek damages through litigation.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022

By 1987, bootlegging caused tax revenues to fall by some 100 billion rubles.

From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

Such ostentatious displays of wealth helped place Olmstead’s bootlegging racket in the crosshairs of the Seattle Prohibition office, which moved all its manpower and resources to take him down as quickly as possible.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2021

“What could be more dangerous than a fake quarantine and a town-sponsored bootlegging operation?”

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool