I loved Garret's work on "The Thief and the Cobbler". I know that this is a Star Wars board and not many people here care about that, but there are many members here now who post mainly in that enormous 82-page-long thread, without visiting the rest of the forum much. For us, his work is absolutely irreplaceable, as are the contacts he's gained with the people who worked on the film. Let us make something very clear now: the people whom Garret sent copies to are NOT the people who own the film, or who have a lot of influence in the higher echelons of corporate management. They are the people who worked their hearts out on the film before the Completion Bond Company took it away from them and fired them all. Garret's work on the "Thief and the Cobbler" project has been much-needed (all of the video/DVD releases of the film were and are absolute, utter crap) and I haven't seen the slightest hint of false hype or unfair profit-making from him. On the contrary, he's often given out freebies along with the DVDs that he sends.
However, based on what other people here are saying, I see that this is not the whole story, and this saddens me. Did it really not work to simply ask him to not sell other people's restorations for $10 on his website? Was banning him really the last resort that the admins went to after trying out all of the other possibilities?
Can't you guys reach some sort of compromise? If I understand this correctly, he's not selling other people's work out of this website but out of his own website... this is immoral, but... is it against the rules? And are other people who do this (while not directly advertising the fact on this board) ALSO identified and banned?