Maybe they will one day backup the film. I know they have funding issues, and that's a big reason that prevents them from doing a lot of things. The upper-echelon people there have a lot of films in much, much more dire need than Star Wars. Probably a lot of them say, "isn't that film on Blu ray? Why are we worrying about this when these other priceless films are rotting?"

That's one reason why sites like this and savestarwars.com are useful. A few of the librarians and preservationists there are star wars fans, and they used the pages I had written there about the state of the deteriorating O-neg as proof to their supervisors that Star Wars was a priority. That was this year. As a result of those pages existing and that info being researched and made public, the status of the films was changed so that they were better preserved as a priority.

So, maybe in the future they may back these up. In the past, it wasn't seen as a priority when balanced against their budget. Now, that is starting to change. That's why I take what we do seriously. We can make a difference, and we have.