Sure. I’d buy 'em if I could - even though I have no way to play them because to date I have refused to spend a penny on BluRay anything.
There is no “I can” with these three movies, because everyone involved has spent the last 20 years trying to bury them. That’s why piracy happens. But let’s not kid ourselves - “ethical” piracy, so much as one can define such a thing, is piracy. (I’m preaching to the choir, I know.)
I can only hope that what we (I’ve been involved in this kind of matter for over a decade now myself) have been doing will result in the RIGHT thing happening, which is something similar to what we’re aiming for being released, not by fans, but by Fox and/or the Rat.
I just read this and am still totally confused about the entire matter at hand. Molly’s post says what we all know to be true.
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None of this is what’s happening, though. This isn’t about re-thinking the morality of preservations. It’s about one specific thing that might have happened within the community.
That said, I agree with everything you’re saying and I see how the topic suggests this. I hope things are clarified in whatever delicate way they can be so that everyone doesn’t tear their hair out thinking this.
For this “big” of an issue “I personally feel” (my own opinion) the clarification should be outright. The forum and those affected by the “issue” should be mature enough to hear and process the real nature at the heart of all this. Sugar coating something legit will not fix or ward off any possible future “issues” unless it is out in the open for all to be aware of, otherwise what we stand for and do here is useless and empty of the heart and soul with which it all was originally created.
I am going to dare to quote Frink, partially, as it kinda hits the right mark for me even though he probably did not intend for it to do so in this case … leave it to Frink to say it tho, LOL …
And I partially quote …
Show your proof or stop posting.
While it is not subtle, it begs the same intent with regards to this. I mean NO harm or disrespect to anyone with this, it just spoke to me.