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Post #1102039

Author
ZigZig
Parent topic
Dealing with People Selling Fan Projects
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1102039/action/topic#1102039
Date created
26-Aug-2017, 2:25 PM

Hello,

First of all, English is not my native language so please excuse my bad formulations.
I’m quite new here but I love this site and this community, I found some treasures here (and on MySpleen) so I feel concerned about this issue.
If I try to summarize previous posts :

LEGAL MATERS :

  • Selling fan preservations and fan edits constitutes a breach of copyright (and an insult to all the work done here graciously by the fans).
  • Free distribution of video files constitutes a breach of broadcasting rights.
  • Hosting video files and/or torrent files constitutes also a breach of broadcasting rights.
  • Sharing video files and/or torrent files constitutes also a breach of broadcasting rights.
  • Possession of fan preservations and edits is allowed only if we previously paid for the official material (eg Lucasfilm Blu Rays)

USER NEEDS (which explain why some users will pay on eBay) :

  • Finding video files is not so easy.
  • Downloading torrents is not so easy.
  • Making beautiful Blu-Ray boxes is not so easy.

WHAT IS NOT A SOLUTION :

  • Making and hosting an OT torrent tracker (as MySpleen) => legal matters.
  • Giving too much visibility to fan’s works and/or writing to eBay, Disney, LucasFilm or FBI => too risky.
  • Sharing files through Private Messages on this site (not too risky, but it won’t avoid people to pay on eBay)
  • Providing external links and explanation (apparently, it is still too much complicated for some people).

SO WHAT ELSE CAN BE DONE :
Maybe we could develop a specific download software (such as Vuze or eMule or BitTorrent, but limited to Star Wars fan files only) that will :

  • automaticaly find external torrent links to fan preservations and fan edits (on TPB, MySpleen, isohunt…)
  • easily download the files
  • easily convert the files to some well-known formats (DVD, MKV, BR)
  • easily find artwork and PDF, ready-to-print.

In other words, that would be a “Vuze-like” (or µTorrent-like or BitTorrent-like) but already configured to find and download SW fan files only.
This software wouldn’t be illegal (it won’t host illegal files, just make some searchs through trackers-sites and allow download from external websites) and it could be legally downloaded from here.

Is this a good idea ?