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It's a chicken or the egg situation. I imagine that a lot of the people who bought the bootlegs did so because the film wasn't commercially available. If Disney decided to release it, I'm willing to bet that a lot of the people who bought a bootleg would buy a legal copy to replace it. I bought...

No it hasn't. No one's mentioned Nazis yet.

OK, yeah. I didn't phrase that correctly. I was specifically thinking of Asia, where Disney released SOTS on home video. But I neglected to think of the videotape release in the UK. I'm not sure what was up with that.

Slavery (and its successor issues) wasn't something that was an historic or cultural element of societies outside the US. So any perceived racism in Song of the South wasn't an issue outside the US.

This has already happened to some extent: https://www.mouseplanet.com/9692/Jim_and_the_Uncensored_Mouse The legal argle-bargle (to quote a former Supreme Court Justice) is actually rather irrelevant. The real takeaway from the above-linked story is that Disney is the 2-ton Mouse in the room...