Let me shed some light on this. I don't often post here and have only known about CG for a year, but I've been collecting Italian crime as long as anybody, with 1 each of every Italian crime film in English from all over the world as well as every title in Italian only which I aquired from an old Italian video store years ago.
Anyway, at one time (like Stephen), I would not let anyone have copies of my rare Italian tapes because of the time, difficulty and money it took to track them down. As a matter of fact, I've sold many tapes to Stephen. About 2 years ago, I changed my mind and started selling off my rare VHS tapes because, let's face it, a digital quality copy in English or with subs that is widescreen is more important to me than a rare defective format like VHS which is often blurry/grainy, off-color or cut off at the sides (full screen). Most of the obscure Italian only titles from VHS you see on CG came from my collection which I traded copies to someone for fandubs/fansubs because I was not aware of CG at the time.
So to sum it up, there are still collectors of rare tapes whose pride and joy is to own something few have and not share it because of the time, money and effort they put in, and there's nothing wrong with that, but there is equally nothing wrong with those who take considerable time to fandub/fansub beautiful editions of films in the best viewing quality for all to enjoy without making a profit.
