What he said. OCR is not a bunch of pretentious fucks; you know nothing about the remixers here.
Also, regarding the argument of remakes < original work, it is very subjective, and I know many people who preferred the remakes of The Ring and The Grudge over the originals.
At the very least, the people who made the remakes must have liked something about their work enough to, you know, make them. It would be like saying : "OCR does not count as a valid example of reinterpretation because most people like the originals over their remixes".
You refute every argument that goes your way by using "some would argue" or "most people" or "almost unanimous" or, in some cases, ad hominem. Add to this the fact that you write like a first grader who just discovered a thesaurus (zenith of disrespect ? really ?) and it makes for a very annoying argumentation.
Maybe instead of assuming that interpretation by someone other than the original compositor is "lessened" (whatever you mean by that), you should ask actual compositors why they like/dislike to have people reinterpret their creations.