What’s the point in my spending evenings and weekends one after the next working on scans, sinking my own money to keep the project going, when you have all that going on?
Why do you do that? Are you doing it as a fun hobby for yourself, or are you doing it for your job? I’m sure the actual creators didn’t intend on you touching their work, but here you are claiming ownership of it. I just don’t understand being mad at someone sharing works they don’t own, when you’re doing it too. I get that you worked hard on your version, and that’s very cool, but you still don’t own that copyright. It’s not your IP to begin with.
I don’t have a dog in this fight, but I think both sides are being a little unreasonable about it all. OT and r/FanEdits are both channels where pirates share movies and series. How one group can act like they’re better than the other is beyond me.
No one owns anything that is shared here and this forum isn’t a place for piracy. Files from the scan are never a promise and people donate to preserve the films purely out of common interest. Most of the time the actual scans given are lower quality proxy files or encodes only to get an idea of what the print looks like and to be a bonus for helping on the project.
Please actually do research on this issue rather than simply accusing people of things such as claiming ownership of films. If you look at any project funded on these forums many people donate more than is ever required for helping these projects. Some donate 10 and some donate 70+. If people were simply coming here to buy encodes I’m sure everyone would be paying the lowest amount possible, but no people donate more because they want these scans to happen. They want these films preserved before they rot. That’s the goal. Not equating a fake value on video files like most of the people on the fanedits subreddit are doing by saying people here are “hoarders”