Comment by diogenescynic

Comment by diogenescynic 11 hours ago

You can’t trust corporations to respect or protect art. You can’t even buy or screen the original theatrical release of Star Wars. The only option is as you say. There are many more examples of the owners of IP altering it in subsequence editions/iterations. This still seems so insane to me that it’s not even for sale anywhere…

4gotunameagain 9 hours ago

I don't understand why you're getting downvoted. So many beautiful things have been lost to perpetual IP, e.g. old games that could be easily ported by volunteers given source code, which can never be monetised again.

Sometimes people create things that surpass them, and I think it is totally fair for them to belong to humanity after the people that created them generated enough money for their efforts.

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haunter 6 hours ago

> You can’t even buy or screen the original theatrical release of Star Wars

You can actually, the 2006 Limited Edition DVD is a double disc version one being the original version.

However they are not DVD quality because they were transferred from LaserDisc and not the original film stock

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phantasmish 4 hours ago

Even those aren’t accurate to the 1977 film.
To pick an arguably-minor but very easy to see point: the title’s different.

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