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Post #968487

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Density
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Idea and Info Wanted: a Star Wars - Collector's Edition?
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Date created
12-Jul-2016, 5:53 PM

The thing is that the 2004 DVDs were never released in HD quality in a consumer format. There’s a reason MySpleen allows those HDTV rips but not direct rips of the Blu-rays. And not to mention, they’re out of print anyway so buying them used will not go to Lucasfilm or anything. In a way it’s not much different than paying for a bootleg of Despecialized. The end result is the same. Just seems kind of pointless to me. And Harmy doesn’t ask that you own the GOUT or the 2004 DVDs and never did, even when the GOUT was used for pretty much everything outside of the Blu-ray. I don’t really see why you need to own the 2004 DVDs to “ethically” download the broadcast. It’s all technically piracy anyway, as much as some on this site like to deny it. And they’re all the same movies that were only copyrighted twice AFAIK, the original release date and then again in 1997. So if you own the latest SE, you own them all as far as I’m concerned. The 2004 HD broadcast and 2011 Blu-ray were even from the same exact transfer, just a few additional changes were made for 2011.