I seriously doubt YouTube would have said the video was taken down due to MPI Media Group's copyright claim if it isn't the case that they own the copyright to at least the version of the pilot that was uploaded to YouTube. Once we realized the version on YouTube isn't the same version that's been shown at the Fests, it certainly begged questions that we've brought up in this topic. But as I posted the other day, at least two of those questions have quite possibly been answered, as in 1) where did the YouTube version of the pilot come from, and 2) who edited it?
"Copyright claim by MPI Media Group"?! Now that's fascinating and rather unexpected - and it changes everything!! It would certainly seem to lend credence to the possibility that the pilot really will be coming out as part of the new MPI DVD. It would also seem to imply that you know who is the one who edited it...
I mean, why/how else would MPI own the copyright to the YouTube version unless they have plans for it, and given the business they're in, those plans are quite probably to issue that version on DVD? And it's hardly a secret who puts together a great deal of the content for the MPI DVDs. So, what I said could be a plausible theory...