Bootleg

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Bootleg, bootlegs, bootlegger, bootleggers, bootlegged or bootlegging may refer to:

Copyright infringement

• Bootleg recording: an audio or video recording released unofficially
• Counterfeit merchandise
• ROM hacking in videogames: unauthorized modification of a game content
• Video games and consoles: unlicensed video games/consoles that often breach someone else's copyright, e.g Polystation, Somari

Business

• Bootleg (radio), also known as pirate radio
• Bootleg mining, a mining practice involving small, illegal mines
• Rum-running, also known as bootlegging, the illegal business of transporting and trading in alcoholic beverages, hence:
  • bootleg alcohol, illicitly made and/or distributed alcohol
• Bootlegging (business), secret innovation within an organization

Film and television

• Bootleg (TV serial), a 2002 miniseries for children
• Bootleggers (1961 film), a Soviet short film about alcohol bootlegging
• Bootleggers (1969 film), an Italian-Spanish crime-action film
• Bootleggers (1974 film), an American crime film

Music

• An alternate term for a mash-up
• "Bootleg", a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival from Bayou Country
• "Boot-Leg", a song by Booker T & the MG's
• Bootleg (Avenue D album), a 2004 album by Avenue D
• Bootleg (Bad News album), a 1988 album by Bad News
• Bootleg (Downchild Blues Band album), a 1971 album by Downchild Blues Band
• Bootleg (Eric's Trip album), a 2007 compilation album by Eric's Trip
• Bootleg (Larry Norman album), a 1972 album by Larry Norman
• Bootleg (Tempest album), a 1991 album by Tempest
• Bootlegs (Good Charlotte album), a 2004 live album by Good Charlotte
• Bootlegs (Kristy Thirsk album), a 2000 EP by Kristy Thirsk

Apparel

• Bootleg pants, or bell-bottoms, trousers which flare out at the bottom
• Bootleg, a brand name used by C&J Clark for children's shoes and trainers

Other

• Bootleg (comics), a character from the comic book New Men
• Bootleg play, a tactic in American football
• Bootleg turn, a driving maneuver
• "Bootleggers and Baptists", an economic theory that ostensibly opposing groups will often support similar legal restrictions on trade
• "The Bootleggers", a 1961 non-fiction book by Kenneth Allsop.

See also

• Theres a snake in my bootleg (disambiguation), a number of albums