Originally posted by: Sanctuary_Moon
Well hey, I'd rather buy a damn bootleg than put more $$$ in Lucash's pockets. I'm done with the guy, if there's a more devious and dishonest filmmaker out there i'd like to know about it.

Unfortunately, this is the wrong attitude. This condones piracy and bootlegging, which is counterproductive to the goal of a legitimate, proper transfer of the unmolested trilogy -- not to mention it puts your personal liberty in jeopardy. This release completely puts LD projects on the black market. If you were to purchase or even trade for a bootleg from a sting operation or a monitored source, your only defense will be ownership of the official version.

If you are not selling an alternate treatment, and if you've purchased the only official treatment available, they can try to charge you or sue you, but they'll find it damn hard to get a sympathetic jury. You'd have the best defense possible: "I purchased the real thing. I wasn't selling illegal copies. So where is the crime?"

"Lucas is an asshole and I want to steal back from him" unfortunately is not an airtight defense. It's merely a point of view that does not respect the rule of law.