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Hollywood Counterfeiter Steals Millions From Celebrities
Tue, 24 Dec 2024
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Chapter 1: What did Hustleman do to become a local celebrity?
I have a room that was like blockbuster. Something like a Madea would come out, I would make a thousand of them in a day. The actual popularity is the thing that was starting to be a problem. They're banging on the windows, hustle man, hustle man, like it's a big deal. I'm a local celebrity, so I opened the door. And that was the worst thing I could ever do.
Working at Lowe's, Lowe's was a pretty good job for Valdosta. Almost half of the population had worked at the Lowe's distribution center. It's like your job, your dream job to get on to there. But with your own child support, That money is so great. So now my check is cut by 25%. So I need some extra money to make up for what's being took for child support. That's when I got into the bootleg game.
I was already burning CDs with the computer just for my personal use. Right. Just to ride around in the car. I had an old 84 Cutlass Supreme with the speakers in it. And, you know, I'm playing the music. And everybody like, dang, you got all the music. Like... But I never really tried to get into selling the CDs. I just made them for my purse.
Because back then it was Napster and Line Wire and stuff like that. We had dial-up in the beginning. So I know a lot of people don't know about the dial-up. But if you know, it's going to... make all those noises and take forever to connect and probably would take at least 15 to 20 minutes a song to download.
but you know at that time that was no problem i mean i'm just making them for my personal use but people asking me just you know can i buy those from you like you know what i think i should start selling these since people asking me because my car was known around town i had roll with records all on the side of the car it was a just a big show.
And I ended up making the CDs and I put them in the cases. They look like CDs out the store and I would make mixed tapes. And then I started downloading other artists, music and albums and all that. So eventually I built up enough in the crates to start really getting out there. Hey, y'all, I got CDs. You can get $5 a piece or whatever.
Where do you go? Like a flea market or just hang out at a spot where everybody goes?
That's it. You go to the spot where they at. And what's better spot than my job? I mean, half the city works here. It's like five, 600 people on each shift. So when they get off, I pop the trunk. I got CDs. And it wasn't a lot of stores that sold CDs. And at the time, CDs were expensive. So you might pay 20 or more for a CD in the store back then. I'm selling them for $5.
So of course... Are these full albums or you're just pulling the best songs of the... I'm doing both. Okay.
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Chapter 2: How did Hustleman start selling CDs?
Yep. I'm buying them like that. So you might get a hundred pack of CDs for $10 or $12 for a hundred pack. So $5 a pop, I can take 10 to $12 and make. Almost all profit. Yeah. It's the most profitable business I could possibly think of. So I did that for a while, but the demand was so high, I couldn't just burn on my computer. I was just burning on one computer at the time.
And I was printing the labels for them too, so they looked packaged like the store. But the demand was so high, I had to get a duplicator. So I just went for the, I just splurged. I had made enough money where I could afford to splurge a little bit. And I think I spent $1,800 on one that burns 10 at a time. That was unheard of. Nobody, especially in Bautista, even heard of a duplicator.
So they knew that you could burn CDs on a computer, but a duplicator, That changed the game. So now I can make a master copy on the computer, take it to the DVD burner, to the duplicator and make 10 copies. Back then, it probably took maybe 20 minutes. But you're burning 10 copies in 20 minutes. Right. So that's 30 an hour. Yeah. So that changed the game.
So now it's starting to be a demand because the VHS tapes fade into black. But now they're putting DVD burners in the computers now. That really changed the game. But in the beginning, we had to come to Atlanta, go to flea markets to find the DVDs. It wasn't downloading at that time. Not DVDs. You could get music, but it wasn't movies. I mean, with dial-up connections, I doubt. Yeah, yeah.
It's too much. It's too much.
That would definitely be too much. So we would go to Atlanta, where they actually... Go in the theater. I don't know if they went in the theater in Atlanta. These could have came from anywhere. But they would go in the theater and record it and burn it on a DVD.
Who would do that?
You never know who the person that actually recorded it.
Have you ever seen these?
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Chapter 3: What challenges did Hustleman face while selling CDs?
So the police, I didn't know at the time, they was in a van across the street from my house, surveilling it. And her and her husband came back over and like, hey, this such and such, you remember me? I'm like, yeah, it's cool. But I'm still working at the time. So I'm working the night shift. So she came like 8, 9 in the morning.
I just got off at 4.30 in the morning and then I get off and do DVDs and all that. So I probably had just laid down at the time. So she came to the door and I opened the door and that was the worst thing I could have ever did. But I opened the door instead of just saying, hey, I'm tired, come back another day.
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and she was looking to buy another computer. Only reason I had a computer for sale at the time is because somebody asked me. I had kind of, that was becoming a annoying, aggravating thing to deal with electronics and all that. So I had kind of backed off of it. But Fresh, the guy that helps me with my editing and the computer nerd guy. Right. He, um, I shouldn't call him a nerd.
He too cool to be called a nerd, but he's a smart guy. Right.
But I don't think nerds really, like when you and I grew up, it was, uh, I'm a little older than you, but when we grew up, nerd was, uh, an insult, but the nerds are basically running the world, running the world for sure.
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