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Post #206470

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lordjedi
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ORIGINAL STAR WARS TRILOGY OUT 09/2006 BY LUCASFILM
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Date created
4-May-2006, 7:08 PM
Originally posted by: Darth Editous
2) He makes us illlegal for sharing our preservation progects.


Has it ever been legal?

David


Thank you for saying this. As much as people have always said it's a gray area, I'd bet you'd have a hard time convincing a judge that converting your LD to DVD and then sharing it with thousands of people is anything but illegal. I'm not saying I don't look forward to each of your edits as they're completed, because I do. But let's not kid ourselves here. Whether you give it away or not, it's still illegal. Doing it for yourself is one thing. Sharing it with all of us is quite another. Just because Lucas looks the other way right now, doesn't make it legal.

And I highly doubt Lucas would send a C&D to OT.com even if this was all about prosecuting fan projects (he doesn't need a DVD release to do this though). He'd more likely send one to myspleen and the other torrent sites and tell them it needs to be taken down.