towne32 said:
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Wazzles said:
Leonardo said:
Hello and welcome! You're in the right place. Nice username.
I've heard of some people pirating these, but I really don't want to steal something that has had so much time and love put into it. So...what do I do?
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. You mean you want to watch the Despecialized but you don't wanna "pirate" it?
I'm pretty sure he means just getting these in the most legal way possible. Harmy's recommendation is to purchase the Blu Rays (and maybe the official DVDs, but I'm not sure). That way you own the bulk of the sources that he used that are available. After that, you can torrent these. If you Google well enough, you can find the torrents very easily.
This is what I meant, but I heard that since that this was classified as a fan-edit, putting it up for sale in exchange for money was illegal. And I watched a video on YouTube explaining how to do this (via MySpleen.org, but the explanation doesn't seem feasible anymore) - and the guy said that pirating it would also be illegal. Honestly, I've never done this sort of thing before, so I don't really have a freaking clue what I'm doing.
Oh, and is there a version available for DVD if I were to burn it to a disc? Unfortunately we don't own a Blu-Ray player and I haven't been able to convince my family to get one thus far.
"You must do what you feel is right."
Harmy wants people to own the Blurays because he wants to make sure his work isn't causing a loss of sales for Lucasfilm. If you don't even own a blu-ray player, I personally would see no moral problem with you buying the DVDs instead. Especially if you end up burning the film to DVD. In fact, I believe fanedit.org's policy (not Harmy, but similar standards) is that you own at least the resolution of the fanedit. So, do what you feel is right, and if it's not exactly what others do, but some variation, just keep it to yourself. No one goes around quizzing people on their official discs here. But there are some people who go as far as proudly brag about how they never have or never will buy anything official, but love this or that fanedit. We tend to grab our pitchforks and relentlessly chew them out.
There is no perfectly legal way of doing this. But there are indeed DVD versions on torrent sites that you can burn to a standard DVD-R.
Okay. Okay, that sort of clears it up for me. Thank you. What remains a mystery to me now is this: where do I get the Despecialised Editions for DVD, and how do I burn them to discs? What kind of discs do I need, as well as equipment/programmes? Some help from any of the experts on here would be most appreciated, because I have NEVER done something like this before.