Originally Posted by
TheBang
No, I think the author is just confused about how they were distributed. Trent didn't have any rights to the film (Interscope owns that), so he couldn't have sold it himself. That's why the only two times he distributed it (VHS copies to friends, and seed0 piratebay download) were both done on the DL.
All the bootlegging was done by fans themselves, or by some commercial bootleggers. Any copies sold at shows would have been commercial bootleggers, the same folks who bring you those fine t-shirts.