Rebel1one1 said:

You know. The sad fact of the matter is that fan edits are a form of piracy. There are no if ands or buts about it. It's hard to listen to people judge others for copying DVDs and gloating about downloading fan-edits at the same time. If studios wanted fan edits to be available they would issue contracts to fan editors and release them. I'm not speaking against this as I love fan editing as much as anybody else here but piracy is piracy and you can't you can't throw stones while living in a glass house.

Copyright infringement and the questionable legality of the fan-edit hobby, and the outright theft of pirating a movie are very different things.

As long as one legally owns a copy of the film a fan-edit may be a lot of things, but a pirated-copy it is not.