Oldfan said:Concerning Focuspuller's comments lately, I do think that when working on a project such as this, it doesn't hurt to be careful. Remember what happened to fanedit.org a while back. And keep in mind that studios, as well as the RIAA, MPAA, and software developers, all keep an eye on the torrents for copyright infringement. Just take a look here http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/france-set-for-showdown-with-eu-after-passing-3-strikes-law.ars and you can see how serious governments are gettings with copyright. Caught 3 times downloading copyrighted material? No internet for you! Come back, one year! Now, I'm sure that most studios do not scour the internet daily looking for new forums that may or may not be infringing on their copyrights (It's easier to just watch the torrents). But Adywan has certainly put his name out there with his ANH:R project, and has certainly gotten some attention. I wouldn't be surprised one bit if somebody at lucasfilm is indeed keeping one eye on us over here, just in case things get too out-of-hand. We're fortunate that for the time being, fanedits are tolerated, for the most part, by studios. I'm sure Focuspuller is just concerned for are continued survival.
I certainly have no objections to Ady's use of the "Adywan Productions" logo, though. I thought it was very tastefully done in ANH:R, and was right where it should have been - at the introduction of the DVD, not the film itself. Many other fanedits contain the faneditor's logo of some sort, and Ady's is certainly the nicest I've seen.
I always download things. BUT I do not distribute anything I download. I download for personal use only. I don't think they can lock you up for that. Now when you make a profit off of something you downloaded they can get your ass. I did something to that effect as a kid. I had a bag of jolly ranchers and sold em to kids for a dime a piece. LOL then I got in trouble by my parents and they made me give them their money back. BUT THEY GOT MY CANDY. In regards to what adywan is doing. I have heard from somewhere that Lucas films supports fan edits. Seeing as adywan tells everyone in his yellow letter commentary that i"f you bought this from somebody kick them in the nuts and get your money back unless it is a girl then just get your money back" I laughed but it is true. Then he had the Ady warning at the beginning of the dvd. So it is not illegal what he is doing. Downloaders can in turn make it illegal if they try to sell them to people. I am gonna just give my uncle a copy of it (he is an original 77 fan so he might love it)