Chicken Boo said:

I thought Mike Verta's version was from a tech IB. If he can scan it, there must be a way.

I think I remember someone quoting it was costing him about $40,000 a scan. You can always find a way if you have enough money (e.g. book out the whole suite for private usage if you can operate the equipment). Plus, he has vowed to never, ever release the full scan at any resolution, and has shown that he is as good as his word in the past re this.

But there is no *legal* way to do it in the US, and scanning houses are *big* businesses usually attached to bigger businesses. They also are part of the movie industry and companies using a scanning house need to know 100% that their intellectual property is being protected when they send their film there to be scanned. They want *no* chance of their scan ending up in someone elses hands.

Doing a bootleg scan and having it found out would completely kill their business even if there was never any legal action. If legal action was launched, the fines are unbelievably huge and there is room for gaol (jail) terms in the legislation.

Not many people would be willing to take that risk with their business, their employees livelihoods and their possible removal of freedom to pick up a dropped bar of soap without fear.