nightstalkerpoet said:

TMBTM said:

But a painter does not sell his work to someone then few years later comes in the customer's house to take it off the wall to draw a mustache in the middle, then ask few dollars more or he'd leave with it.

How many people have had George come into their homes, alter their OUT VHS tapes and laserdiscs, then threaten to take them?

The correct question is: how many theatre owners with prints of Star Wars have been ordered to return their prints, in exchange for prints of the Special Editions?

I'm afraid the answer is quite a few. TMBTM's metaphor isn't perfect, but it's close. Star Wars is a cultural work that was out circulating in the public in better-than-HD quality for decades. Lucasfilm is actively trying to remove it from the public space, and as far as the best quality versions go, it has been very successful. The low-quality versions you speak of are not the central issue at all.