: The real reason is that they are paying the people who work on it a salary
: (including the producers) and are giving stuff out to the people who
: contributed. In a sense, by contributing you are "buying" the
: final product if you are getting a copy.

: Their issue is there is profit being made, plus they planned to use the
: studio they were about to afford to work on and launch other projects in
: the future.

Yes, that's what Quirel said as well. It's a pity though, it looked good. Did you work with the editor on Axanar or on other projects? What have you worked on?