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Hollywood Says No to Filtering DVD Player

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the raw-and-uncut dept.

haplo21112 writes "There is a posting over at ZDNet about how Hollywood continues to trample on the American consumer's free use rights. They want to prevent the sale of a special DVD player which can be used to edit out offensive material from a DVD in realtime. While I don't agree with censorship in general, I do believe its everyone's right to do what they wish with their own media."

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  1. Here's two ideas. Ok. More than that. by teamhasnoi · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Why don't DVD's come with a TV 'Broadcast' edit on them already? It seems to me that would be trivial to include as a 'special feature'.

    If parents want to watch an R rated movie, why not wait until it comes out on TV? Pre-edited for your convienice, so as not to offend Wheel of Fortune viewers.

    Please. Taking out the swear words, violence, and sex out of most movies destroy the entire film. How will Billy understand the 3 minutes of 'Deliverance' or 'Natural Born Killers' he gets to see?

    Read a goddamn book, you easily-offended fuckhats. There is sure as shit better fucking shit in a good book than there is in some overfuckinghyped, Hollywood focus-grouped shit film, you cockwrestlers.

    Profanity is all around you already, and can appear without warning. Are you going to monitor Billy's friends language, every word said on the bus, school, overheard phone converstions, slumber parties, supermarket magazines, bathroom stalls, tourrets syndrome sufferers at the mall, ect,ect,ect 24/7?

    Where does it end? How far away from the real world will you keep Billy? Will your oppressive control result in turning your son into a cannibal pumpkin rapist? Are your particular pumpkin-fucking hangups reflected in the DVD edit? How will you know? How can you make sure Billy never sees any pumpkin-fucking? How will you request 'No pumpkin-fucking!' without feeling dirty that you said pumpkin-fucking aloud? Is pumpkin-dry-humping ok?

    Have you thought about actually *talking* to Billy, and explaining the reasons behind profanity, violence, sex and when/if they are appropriate?

    eh. Easier to buy a DVD player than raise your kids.

    *FUCK!* Sorry.