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Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline by onlypassingthru on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @02:00AM (#40784985)
Han shot first. If you want to see it, you'll have to track down a very early VHS release (from 1984?) or from pirates. Every other official release has been revised for Lucas's change of heart.
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Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline by teddyh on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @06:33AM (#40786717)
The laserdisc version is significantly higher quality than VHS, but it could be hard to find. Not to mention a laserdisc player.

Of course, this exists: <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harmy%27s_Despeci...>

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Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline by ghaff on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @08:33AM (#40787768)
Probably a copy out in my garage someplace. No idea of the version though.

But, to another point, copyright is a convenient bogeyman in these discussions--and it plays a role. But someone would also need to pay for archiving all this material and indexing it in a manner that would actually be useful.

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Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline by einsteinx2 on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @08:41AM (#40787861)
Also Project 4K77 is doing amazing work.
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Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline by mikelovenotwar on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @07:45AM (#40787286)
> Han shot first.

More specifically, Greedo didn't shoot at all. Not until it was messed with many years later.

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Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline by HeckFeck on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @12:07PM (#40790260)
It was a clear self-defence situation. I will never forgive the edits.
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