http://walt.lishost.org/2005/07/infringement-or-not-a-sith-anecdote/ The library voice of the radical middle. Thu, 23 May 2013 16:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://walt.lishost.org/2005/07/infringement-or-not-a-sith-anecdote/comment-page-1/#comment-249 Eric Childress Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:07:33 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=84#comment-249 Luke’s probably right. The only alternative explanation that occurs to me is that it was one of various pre-release issues that are pressed for various purposes — for example, members of the Academy are eligible to receive non-retail editions (these usually have some obnoxious warnings of various sorts at the top or bottom of the screen), and various distributors and other industry-related parties will receive these sorts of prints in the scope of their business activities.

]]> http://walt.lishost.org/2005/07/infringement-or-not-a-sith-anecdote/comment-page-1/#comment-246 lukethelibrarian Thu, 07 Jul 2005 01:51:44 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=84#comment-246 Actually, it was a likely bootleg. There was, in fact, a workprint of Episode III — complete with that telltale timecode — that leaked online on 18 May 2005, the day before the film was released to theatres in the US.

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