‘AMERICAN GANGSTER’ BOOTLEGGERS RUN AMOK: Industry deals with pristine qualities of Denzel flick already selling for $5 on the streets.

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“Apparently, you can’t stop them; you can only hope to contain the bootleggers who continue to put hot product on the streets despite the film industry’s reinforced preventive measures on piracy.

A report in the Wall Street Journal calls attention to bootlegged copies of “American Gangster,” which opens this Friday starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. But as some folks already know, the film has been available since at least Wednesday at various file-sharing sites on the Internet.

High-quality, crystal-clear DVDs of the film were also being sold for $5 Thursday morning in Los Angeles, the newspaper reported.”