Originally posted by: Hal 9000
Good luck, Luke Skywalker.

We all depend on it.

I'm all for that!

Perhaps this subculture of fans preserving historic art for fellow fans (or cinematic aficionados) is just the next big movement in cultural evolution.

I took out my treasured letterbox VHS set to watch them over the weekend, and while they held up surprisingly well for decade old magnetic tapes, they were still filled with jumps, glitches and overall blurriness. While I think we should limit our talks about bootlegs and piracy if we are to be taken seriously, the fact is my tapes are deteriorating as we speak. I just wish I could back them up just so I could limit how much I touched them, but macrovision prevents even a simple tape dupe, so there is even less reason to save them digitally.

And frankly, the classic OT deserves better than this.