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Directors Guild of America is Fighting Edited Films

Posted by michael on from the cutting-room-floor dept.

BoyPlankton writes "According to this article in the Salt Lake Tribune, film directors are gearing up to battle companies that are making a name for themselves selling/renting out edited films to consumers. The film directors claim that it's censorship and that it's morally, ethically, and legally wrong. The companies doing it claim that consumer rights trump the artists rights in this case, and that the artists don't have the moral ground to stand on because they already edit their films for T.V. and planes. Is this issue going to further erode our rights as a consumer, or will lawmakers take this opportunity to shore them up?"

11 of 642 comments (clear)

  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP you fucking flamers

  2. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Michael's a tard.

  3. CLAIMED [Govtcheez] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In the name of the CLiT.

  4. Hmm, does this mean no more sex scenes? by B3ryllium · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That would be a bad thing. Kinda. Anyone see Monster's Ball? I never want to see Billy Bob's chest hair again.

    More Way of the Exploding Stick to take your mind off that horrible mental image. (Interactive stick figure kung-fu!)

    :)

    1. Re:Hmm, does this mean no more sex scenes? by B3ryllium · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      For anyone wondering, I wasn't going for Karma. Trying to drum up hits for my website, mostly.

      What I would really like is for the Ozone/BeShare file sharing service to get more users. I mean, it's free, there's no advertising, and once it gets a few hundred more users, it'll have all the files you could possibly want.

      Oh, and did I mention that it runs under Linux, Windows, and OS X?

  5. confirmed: I just shat all over myself by c0nfucio-licious · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can't believe I just took a shit in my pants at work. What the fuck? I cant stand up and take it to the restroom, because I am wading in a puddle of feces at this very moment. Any change in my seating position will send my poo spilling down my legs and into my socks and shoes. There is no way I can play this off as a fart. It doesn't help at all that I've been spun out for 3 days. I can hardly see straight! How am I possibly going to explain this to my Supervisor when she comes over here to ask me what the fuck I just did in the presence of my employer? She'll make me drop trau in front of everyone again. There it is. The person in the cubicle to the right of me just asked if I could smell "that". I gotta go.

    --


    "someone should make a hot air balloon that is shaped like a giant vagina" -- Bill Clinton
    1. Re:confirmed: I just shat all over myself by tiedyejeremy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Depends users all over the world are no offended and will be filing suit by the end of the day. You insensitive crapper. I hope you're happy. ROTFLMAO

      --
      Anything you say will be held against you. ... "tits"
    2. Re:confirmed: I just shat all over myself by c0nfucio-licious · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's not that I couldn't control it. I thought I was just forcing a fart out...you know, the kind that are up a little further. They are just supposed to "pop" and that's it...well, it popped alright.

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      "someone should make a hot air balloon that is shaped like a giant vagina" -- Bill Clinton
  6. Bush Awards Blue Ribbon Of Integrety To Nixon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For more about Bush's dealings, read:

    Bush Awards Blue Ribbon To Nixon

    Be patriotic; smoke Amerikan grown marijuana!

  7. Ragnar the Viking Sings the Songs of Hank Williams by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Somewhere out in the Great Empty, in the dry, dusty highways and byways of the vast American oblivion, Ragnar stirs. Ragnar awakens. Ragnar hungers.

    Ragnar considers his options.

    And in the fullness of time...

    RAGNAR SINGS!

    Your cheatin' heart will make you weep.
    You'll cry and cry and try to sleep,
    But sleep won't come the whole night through.
    Your cheatin' heart will tell    [1] on you.

    When tears come down like falling rain,
    You'll toss around and call my name.
    You'll walk the floor the way I do.
    Your cheating heart will tell    [1] on you.



    [1] Williams intends "tell" to be taken in Merriam-Webster's intransitive sense 3: "to have a marked effect". That usage was more common in Mr. Williams's day than in our own.

  8. Censorship? HA! by EdMcMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Personally, I think selling DVDs for $20+ is censorship!