In the case of his work for The Thief and the Cobbler, it has helped bring the film out from obscurity a bit. The only people in the industry he contacted and sent free discs to were those who worked on the film (or worked with Richard Williams). Openly distributing a bootleg and then meeting with a Disney executive is pretty gutsy, too. I don't like the idea of bootlegs except in the case where they're absolutely necessary. When a studio insists that the only thing they'll do with a film is release a $30 pan & scan, VHS quality, bare-bones, heavily altered version... I have to side with the bootleggers.

As for Star Wars, I have no idea of the details surrounding that stuff. However, ocp never had any problems with me putting the Recobbled Cut on GBStv, nor on Google Video (which you can actually download, along with a lot of other extra stuff he supplied to me on DVD-R). I gave him donations since I'd have to fork over $30 for the crappy "official" disc anyways. He's made a lot of people happy with the RC and I think internet drama is ridiculous.