lordjedi said:
Dude, you seriously need to take another look at Usenet. Those same things can all be done in a matter of hours, at the most, from Usenet. A Blu-ray rip can especially be had in about 4 hours at 20 M down. No need to wait 4-6 days. If I had to wait that long for an HD copy of anything, I'd just order it online. I think it would get to me faster that way.
well, my ISP sucks at newsgroup access, and i hardly ever use newsgroups, torrents
work fine for me, and since it's basically 'free', what difference does it make if i get it today,
tomorrow, or in a week? i'm not THAT impatient...
Lucasfilm lost the second any version of star wars SE/and the prequels showed up
on HD, i don't know what came first, the german versions, wookiegroomer, etc...
but as soon as those were free..... the game was over ..... maybe that's why people
don't think that the war is already over, before it has even started?
They've only lost to people like us. Talk to Joe Schmoe on the street. They have no idea how to download anything outside of using some lame p2p program like Kazaa. And then they'll complain about how every time they download a copy, it's not what it said it was (big surprise) and now their machine is infected with viruses and trojans.
everyone i know is technically capable of doing it ... also if average people are getting busted
constantly for sharing/downloading music, why would it be hard? someone mentioned that
movie studios don't crack down on stuff as much, only on the cammers, and distributors,
and physical pirates.....
Besides all that, most of us actually own the DVDs of any fan edits we download. It's so nice that you don't actually buy any of your DVDs. Way to go there Mr. Pirate.
well, i have bought enough laserdiscs, and dvd's to last me a lifetime, and i don't really
feel like spending more money unless its a HD version....i stated that earlier. unless a
movie is in HD, i don't see the point of wasting money on a DVD...
The SE? Probably very few people here. The OOT? I'll be the first one in line. I would rather have a completely remastered OOT in HD direct from LFL than a fan edit. That's one of the points of this site. Not only are we suppose to own the original of any movies we get, but we're also suppose to get rid of any fan edits we have once an official version comes out. Or do you think everyone still has their fan edit copies of the various versions of Blade Runner now that an excellent boxed set has been released?
i LOVE all the fanedits from here, and from fanedit.org ..... i think they're great from a fans
viewpoint, on seeing different versions of a movie, or seeing a cool preservation from a
dead format (laserdisc, ced, 16mm, etc) .... why would i get rid of a fanedit that someone
made, just because the official dvd came out? they're different to me......
And at some point, it's comments like these that are going to get this site shut down. Seriously dude. You're sitting here telling people that LFL shouldn't bother releasing any HD versions of Star Wars because we've got all we need. You're telling LFL not to waste their time because we won't buy it anyway. You're telling LFL that we have no need for them any longer.
please dont be so dramatic, do you think i'm the first person to ever say these words?
let me go back through the threads to see what everyone thought about the HD versions
when they first came out? oh, theres not a whole lot there is there..... its a drop in the
bucket ... and by the way, i'm not telling LFL anything ....
all i've seen is speculation about a bluray version of star wars, is there actually
any hard evidence, or release dates for it? so if it isn't being worked on, then does
it really exist? not to me..
The preservations have been allowed to exist to this point because most everyone has bought at least one version of Star Wars somewhere along the line. People with the LDs have the LD preservations. People bought the 04 sets and are now getting color corrected copies from someone else. Some of those things might be a legal gray area, but they seem to be acceptable to LFL.
i wish all the people here were as altruistic as you seem to be,
do you REALLY THINK FOR ONE MINUTE, people that have downloaded laserdisc transfers,
bootlegs, edits, etc, really OWNED THOSE EXACT VERSIONS, i'd be hard pressed to prove that..
the cat is already out of the bag, and has been for quite some time now....
[i'm deliberately not talking about the 35mm transfer project for other reasons
obviously]..
Oh yeah, you're being so secretive about that transfer.
please wait for another week or two before my comment will make sense...
you'll see..
later
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