I absolutely agree, the rules are in place and sure, some people will break them, everyone breaks the rules sometimes but only stupid people go and boast about it on a public online forum. I really do think that fan edits and preservations are in danger and that we need to clearly express what others have already stated above: They are not for sale and should only be shared amongs legal owners of the source material, provided it's still available.

The only thing that consoles me a little is that we are only very small fish in the sea full of real pirates, do a Google search for STAR WARS Blu-Ray 720p; there are hundreds, maybe thousands of different pirate copies of the actual official BD release, so 99% of people who will break the law and download STAR WARS in HD illegally are not going to download ESB:R or the Despecialized Edition, they are going to download Star.Wars.1977-1983.BluRay.720p.DTS-ES.x264-CHD or STAR WARS SAGA 1977 2005 BluRay 720p QEBS5 AAC20 MP4-FASM or some crap like that. And out of the 1% of illegal downloads of STAR WARS that our projects probably constitute, 90% probably do own the official release.