Comments on: MPAA ‘Castrates’ World’s Biggest FanEdit Movie Site

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Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:51:15 +0000

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By: Tueplo

Tueplo — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:35:32 +0000

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By: Jack Valente

Jack Valente — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:50:57 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:14:12 +0000

Maybe “fanedit.org” shouldn’t take money from their downloaders, and then the MPAA wouldn’t have anything to hold against them. Too bad, I guess boon’s greed finally caught up with him! I guess there are still much cooler sites around I can still get movie edits from that doesn’t charge money!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:05:30 +0000

Fanedit.org deserves all of the crap they get from the MPAA and everyone else. They are rude people on that site. They break MANY LAWS and make special features for BRAND NEW THEATRICAL MOVIES available to the public, not to mention the countless STAR WARS edits that DID actually hurt the sales of the official DVDs. They are mean, critical people that think they are the next best thing in movies. Boon23 is really full of himself, and if he didn’t want this to happen maybe his dumb ass shouldn’t have advertised his HIGHLY MAINSTREAM “fanedits” all over the place. Sites like “Retro Horror Remix” and “Original Trilogy” (both F.E. sites also) are still able to exist because they choose to release edits of obscure flicks, (not the newest 007 or Star Wars film) and follow all of the laws…maybe fanedit.org should take a hint from them!

By: OCrush

OCrush — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:43:18 +0000

In regards to responce #19.
“What’s the matter? Does the notion that amateur hobbyists can deliver a better version of a film in their spare time than paid Hollywood professionals can as a fulltime career, make you uncomfortable?”

LOL, this has to be the single most ignorant statment I have ever heard. Its pretty easy taking high qualiy software and rediting films. Hell anyne with the software can do it. However with that being said I would love to see these people organize and make a full hollywood level film. Sorry but 99.9999999% of them would either fail horribly or come up with a vastly inferior product.

I appreciate fan edits just like the next guy but I also respect the original film makers and understand fully that they did all of the hard work. Re-editing is the easy part.
Even suggesting tha these people are more talanted than the original director;s is the biggest load of BS I have ever heard!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:15:15 +0000

wnat new torrentsite?

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By: demonforge

demonforge — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:39:37 +0000

We really need to ban together worldwide and go after these mpaa riaa jerkwads….maybe even personally!

By: PSYCHO_DAYV

PSYCHO_DAYV — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:21:40 +0000

The fact is that the site takes in donations. In the eyes of the MPAA it looks as if they are making a profit off of their copyrighted works. Though the donations are typically used for site hosting, ect. they show a “profit.” This is one of the things that could get them into a lot of trouble. After site hosting is paid for they show a profit. How do you explain that? You can’t in the MPAA’s eyes.

Let’s set the record straight. Fanedit.org was not the original fan edit website. There were a few others which I will not list here as I don’t want any legal action to befall them as it has fe.org.

Also, though there are a few really good fan edits out there there are hundreds that a plain horrible. Do your research before downloading any of them. The last thing you want to do is waste your time on a bad fan edit of a bad film.

By: Fuzzypig

Fuzzypig — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:07:49 +0000

Most “blockbuster” movies these are a pile of derivitive crud, the studios trip over themselves to be the next one to rehash an old idea, butcher it and make a mint. Tron2 anyone?

A load of people do it for nothing more than their own a amusement, no profit, and these spawn of the Satan’s hairy bits, come down and act like they’re saving humanity rather than propping up a dated and broken revenue system!

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[...] MPAA Targets Fanedit.org; web community of hobbyists who make variations on movies will take down much of its site. (TorrentFreak) [...]

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[...] MPAA ‘Castrates’ World’s Biggest FanEdit Movie Site By TorrentFreak ,November 24, 2008 Fanedit.org is the largest such community in the world and the MPAA has, in the words of the admin, just ‘castrated’ the site. Faneditors consider what they … [...]

By: Roze

Roze — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:26:56 +0000

@38
The thing is, one shouldn’t need any “explicit written permission” to make one’s own take on films that others have made. It is freedom of speech, and one shouldn’t require permission from a person for one to talk about that person. Same here. One shouldn’t need permission from someone else in order to express their own take on that person’s movie. People should be free to say what they want about other people’s movies in the form of their own movies.

Roze

By: Lachlan Hunt

Lachlan Hunt — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:54:04 +0000

If Lucasfilm really was ok with those Star Wars fan edits, then perhaps the site should contact them and get explicit written permission from them to restore those films. And if that works, perhaps some of the other studios would follow.

By: Anony

Anony — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:04:28 +0000

Great…. Sue your customers.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:56:59 +0000

Boon should talk to the guys from the pirate bay for some hosting and a category on their search engine for fan edits.

As for the content itself, contact Lucas again, confirm you can keep the SW content.
Do the same with the others.

From my experience, the MPAA goes after everyone and everything, while if you contact the actual studio or publisher, they are much more friendly and often have no clue what the heck the MPAA is saying in their names.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:05:21 +0000

PLUS 1 for being a preschool teacher!

By: Ghost

Ghost — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:23:11 +0000

As kids they tell us to explore our creative side and force us to take art classes. Well WTF. This is creative. Blah, the world is coming to a dark, dark, depressing end…time to turn emo >.>

http://bluehumor.co.cc

By: The Lord

The Lord — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:25:49 +0000

Why can’t studios see this could work to their benifit.

If they saw a fanedit that was great for a movie, they could approach the person who made it, pay them some money and put it on their DVD’s or Blu-ray discs as an extra. Most extras are crap, but fanedits would make extras a whole lot better.

Of course they’d have to released on later DVD’s as fans would need the DVD first before they could edit it (legally). This could extend their shelf life.

Wake up studios and learn to adapt!