On the video, Mr. Johnson, who has hair like Cher and wears an earring, greets buddies by saying things like, "I see you finally went all digital," and makes speeches about the dangers of bootlegging software.
Not long ago, gamers could go to a Web site called isonews.com to discuss and order mod chips: hardware that, when soldered to a console's motherboard, let them play cool Japanese imports, bootlegs, and assorted software on the Xbox or PS2.
Russia has become a land of pirating, from computer software to bootleg copies of the latest Hollywood blockbusters and pop music releases.
The Triple Frontier where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet has long been South America's busiest contraband and smuggling center, a corrupt, chaotic place where just about anything from drugs and arms to pirated software and bootleg whisky are available to anyone who can pay the price.
Rather than pay $500 for BASIC, they would acquire bootleg copies of the software.
It is also a center for illicit commerce in drugs, bootleg compact discs, counterfeited toys, pirated software and weapons.
Glass warns users to beware rogue apps when they enable debug mode, but Paterson says many Glass users are nonetheless using that bootleg process to try out unauthorized software.
Thus, the pamphlet was unlicensed, a situation roughly akin to a bootleg audiotape or a floppy disk of pirated software.
Ukraine, for example, is awash in bootleg optical discs; Russia is running on counterfeit software; while Paraguay is rolling in imitation cigarettes.
