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#111897
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FOX issuing takedown notices to Sith downloaders
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111897/action/topic#111897
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"There are no differences in the concept. If I buy a movie, I can not then set up a site to stream it for free to people, even if I only allow one person to stream it at a time."

Let's make this very clear:

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"The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to five years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000."


When you "buy" your movie, you are not authorized to distribute it - even to one person at a time. Some Video companies will make a copy of your SW laserdiscs if you give them your own personal laserdiscs, meaning you own the actual media. Many VHS-to-DVD transfer companies will place your favorite songs on your DVD if you send in your own copy of the CD.

Libraries, on the other hand, have limited authorization in distributing copyrighted work, so long as it is returned. Libraries with copiers have all sorts of posted warnings about what you can and cannot copy, and to what extent. In this same manner, DVD rental shops have limited authorization as well. You, on the other hand, only have the right to personal home viewing. This is a crucial distinction that you need to keep in mind.
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#111819
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FOX issuing takedown notices to Sith downloaders
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111819/action/topic#111819
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^ Agreed. ^

"the "public library"? There really is no difference here in regard to the concept itself....A library buys a book or a movie and the whole city can read or see it for free."

Did you forget the part about the library "buying" the book? How many libraries do you know of that make thousands of copies of the book available for people to take home and keep?

There are quite a number of differences.
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#111325
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FOX issuing takedown notices to Sith downloaders
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111325/action/topic#111325
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Lord knows what point you are going to attempt to stretch here, but I was working on my LD transfer long before coming to these boards, and have dropped a considerable amount of personal funds in the process. Other posters have asked to help out monetarily, and so they are being given that chance.

I know full well that the end product most likely breaks the law in some way or another. I've never denied that, and I've never tried to make myself out as a "Robin Hood" for this undertaking, though Lord knows *I* would have a hell of a lot more right to do so than you would.
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#111299
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FOX issuing takedown notices to Sith downloaders
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111299/action/topic#111299
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"But no one downloading these movies is committing a crime worth wasting US resources over."

Ah, the so-called "victimless crime". Sure, it's illegal, but no one gets hurt, so why enforce it...

"It's the equivalent of Palpatine ordering the Jedi Knights to assemble on Tatooine to battle Jawas while robot armies destroy Coursant."

You are aware that the films are fiction, right?

"I prefer having a legit DVD in my hand whenever possible."

As do I.

"The people bootlegging Sith right now very well might be capturing a moment in history that we'll never see again ... the workprint/theatrical release. Who knows what Lucas will do to Sith on DVD?"

So now those people may be heroes? I hope you aren't referring to me, as my intentions were nowhere near that selfless, and I doubt any of the other downloaders' were either.

"and the practice is nowhere near as destructive as the MPAA is making it out to be. To pull such big guns on jawas is far more criminal than the crimes the jawas are guilty of."

LOL.....like sending C&D's and closing sites is any kind of threat to our rights. And please stop with the "Robin Hood" act - it simply does not apply.
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#111185
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Fett's "Death" in ROTJ
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111185/action/topic#111185
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"proof please."

Are you accusing Sessler or lying, or just too tired to do some research on your own.

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80. SPACEPORT ALLEYWAY - GORDON - AQUILAE

General Skywalker embraces Han Solo, the underground contact. Han is a huge,
green skinned monster with no nose and large gills. - 1st draft


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Luke is standing next to HAN SOLO, a young Corellian pirate only a few years older than himself. He is a burly-bearded but ruggedly handsome boy dressed in a gaudy array of flamboyant apparel. - 2nd draft


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This is HAN SOLO, a tough James Dean style starpilot about twenty-five years old. A cowboy in a starship -- simple, sentimental and cocksure of himself. - 3rd draft


There are many aspects of SW that changed throughout the early drafts. This is why I laugh so much when people, including Lucas himself, claim that "Darth Vader" means "Dark Father". In the first draft, "Darth Vader" is just a general, rather than a Sith, with no children. Luke Skywalker is a 60 year old Jedi, and Annikin is the son of Kane. As such, there's no possible way that the name "Darth Vader" could refer to his parentage, since the parentage doesn't exist at the time the name was used.