Re: Court rules against sanitizing films

Invid Fan wrote:
In article <0k92b2l3hi6n21qb1sv3ak6djbm6flu4tp@xxxxxxx>, Thumper
<jaylsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 9 Jul 2006 06:58:18 -0700, "moviePig" <pwallace@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


BTR1701 wrote:
In article <1152423076.014814.320760@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Ed
Stasiak" <estasiak@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Derek Janssen wrote
Ed Stasiak wrote

What ever happened to that company that was offering DVD
players pre-programmed to delete "objectionable" content from
movies?

And to Bush's "special" amendment to the copyright laws that he
pushed through Congress just to keep them in business?

I hadn't heard anything about that but why would the DVD
manufacturer need any special protection from Bush, their
machines didn't alter the DVD so Hollywood can't complain
about any copywrite infringements.


Agreed. The machine was just programmed to skip ahead a preset amount of
time. That doesn't violate copyright law any more than a person sitting
in their living room doing the same thing manually with their remote.

Indeed you'd think so, on the same principle that entitles you to
scissor-and-paste the living hell out of your own VHS purchase.


Why would anyone want to watch a sanitized movie? If you don't like
the content or language then don't watch it.

My dad, when he was alive, commented that he would have loved to show
the film GLORY to his 7th grade students but couldn't due to the
swearing and (iirc) the head exploding at the begining. An edited
version would have solved the problem.

....the problem being an educational system's decree that such elements
must keep such movies from 12-year-olds. I'm not sure an edited
version would've solved it.

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