Actually fool is right. A bootleg did refer to illegal copies of movies or tv shows, and i guess full release cd's. Or back in the day, it was cassette tape recordings of vinyl releases. I remember it in regards to film, where people needed to get bootlegs of asian kung fu or horror films, or bootlegs of the dmc champs, or skate flicks and so on becuase they were not widely available. And even in terms of music You hear chris rock refer to bootlegging the kanye cd on dark twisted fantasy, and on the last outkast album there is a skit of someone bootlegging idlewild. But i believe sol was referring to the bootlegs regularly found around the internets. Bootleg as pirate copies is just for us old fogies