negative1 said:

netflix has to have all their stuff captioned by 2014

guess, that includes star wars eventually..

I doubt it. Even if Star Wars becomes available for streaming someday, when it comes to movies with multiple editions, Netflix tends to just pick one edition and make only that one edition available. It's quite possible they'll just stream the Special Editions they currently have on disc, if for no reason other than it's easier. When browsing titles, Netflix treats the Special Editions as if they were Star Wars, so they probably don't feel like Star Wars is lacking from their catalog at all!

So even if we someday win the war and get the originals properly released, physical media may have become so irrelevant by then to most people that much of the world may not be able to see Star Wars anyway, so the battle just moves to the streaming services. Bleh to the rental model future. I'll be kicking and screaming, I tell you.