Excerpt from another email I just wrote:
It's really hard to tell how many copies there are out there now ... The MOV version seems to have been downloaded 400 times in 5 days from T'Bone's site ... Putting him at 100% in under a week - I've really crippled his traffic! The response has been insane. This was just a little something I slapped together in a couple weekends, in my spare time, kind of creating the DVD that I wanted to see, and the response has shown me that I was definitely on to something ... It's clear that there is a HUGE demand for "real" 1977-style Star Wars stuff, that Lucasfilm is not necessarily living up to. (Which is the entire purpose of this site.) I really hope that if he sees this (or any originaltrilogy.com project), he gets the point and actually releases his own DVD of cut scenes and archive footage, and the original trilogy on DVD, and all that .... and doesn't just sue me. =\ That said, Lucas has finally started talking about a Deleted Scenes disc in the 6-disc box set, so we'll see.
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I'm hoping to include more random interesting Star Wars things on the *Cough DVD. So look for that.