Since 2004, Hyman “Big Hy” Strachman has sent over 300,000 bootlegged movie discs to military units in Iraq and Afghanistan. Never expecting any money and using an estimated $30,000 of his own coin, the 92-year-old took up the hobby of bootlegging after his wife over more than 50 years died. According to this incredible piece in the New York Times, Strachman discovered a site that cataloged soldier requests for care packages, and after noticing that many asked for DVDs, he started an operation that started slow and evolved (with the help of a professional disc burner) into an enterprise that saw hundreds of movies copied every day. The practice re-connects him, a World War II vet, to the military, and the result so far has been a few binder’s worth of Thank You notes but no legal notifications from studios.