The 'Pink Floyd Uncut' DVD Project and the Band’s Legal Response

In the early 2000s, a fan project called “Pink Floyd Uncut” began circulating a DVD collection of high-quality, unreleased concert footage. It pulled together audience and soundboard recordings from the band’s 1970s tours — particularly the 1977 Animals tour and the 1975 Wish You Were Here tour — and presented them in a clean, chaptered format that felt almost official. The project was traded freely on fan forums and quickly became a must-have for collectors tired of grainy bootlegs.

Pink Floyd’s management and legal team, representing the band’s corporate entity Pink Floyd Music Ltd., eventually caught wind of the compilation. They sent cease-and-desist letters to the distributors and message boards hosting the project, citing copyright infringement. The creators pulled the DVDs from public circulation, though copies continued to pass around in private trades. The project remains a legendary example of fan curation meeting the limits of band-controlled legacy — and a reminder that some of the best live Floyd footage still lives outside the official catalog.