EDIT: I’m surprised no one has said anything about me presumably pirating Sony Vegas…
Well, I don’t think you posted evidence of that one.
Plus isn’t getting a copy of something whether it be a fan edit or not legal so long as you have a original copy? You want to see my receipt or something?
Well, it depends on where you live. Under US law and the DMCA, no, not technically. If you circumvent the copyright protection yourself by ripping the disc, for legal/fair use reasons it is technically legal, but the distribution of those materials for others is not. It’s a level of nit-picking that’s not really relevant since what we’re doing is already even less ‘grey’ than that.
But not using ‘scene’ releases is a requirement for participation in sites like fanedit, I think. And using the original encode is ideal for the sake of the quality of your own project. It would have also been relevant if there really was something wrong with your file or AV streams.