Pennsylvania Jones said:

bigmonkey2382 said:

TV's Frink said:

bigmonkey2382 said:

Aren't the fan edits considered piracy?

You do know there are a couple of fanedit forums here, right?

Yes I'm aware, but I'm wondering how safe it would be from the suits?

My dad's wondering the same thing. Well, in the context of the fan preservations, not fan edits.

The question is: Are fan edits/preservations REALLY piracy? My dad thinks so. But maybe he's right, though. Maybe the fan edits/preservations ARE piracy, and we're just blind to that fact. And that sucks so badly, that the botched official releases are the only ones I'm allowed to own. >:(

That's a bummer you're restricted from viewing these preservations. It's not piracy in the strictest sense; the intent isn't to profit and the reach of the edits is fairly narrow in the grand scheme of things. Unless the existence of, say, a Harmy or Adywan product begins to encroach on Lucas' ability to profit from Star Wars (if anything, all the edits are helping Lucas, as they continue to perpetuate the adoration of a product that he alone has the ability to make the entire world aware of once in a technological generation.) I doubt we will ever see any serious backlash toward communities like this.