Anyone can download the Holiday Special from google video. If the fan preservations of the OOT laserdiscs didn't count as piracy back before the GOUT was announced, neither does this.

regarding the OOT:

What gets me .... what really gets me is that the OOT on blu-ray has been built up so much by everyone that for LFL to not include it at this point would just be milking the cashcow. "Gasp, oh we have to buy this because this is all we'll ever get." Yeah, fell for that with the dvd back in '04, not falling for it this time.

When I look at all the bd releases I thought would never happen....

-The original versions of Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek VI

-Both versions each of Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick

-Close Encounters: all three versions

-Blade Runner: all five versions (for fuck's sake)

....that's when LFL holding out on the theatrical versions of all six films just seems beyond ridiculous. No one ever started a petition to get the original version of Star Trek VI on video at all and yet we got it anyway, in high-definition no less! Yes, I'm aware it's a sub-par 1080i upconversion job, but that's far, far more than the OOT can say for itself.

Warner Brothers should get the original version of THX-1138 out there, Universal should do the same for Graffiti and LFL, well, if they haven't gotten the message by this point they never will.