EFF Supporting Home DVD Editing

cheesedog writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a brief in federal court in support of companies that offer software to edit violence or sex from a user's DVD. The full story can be found in this article from the Salt Lake Tribune."

Comments

Ratings

[Ghetto_D]

Ratings are put on a movie for a reason. Most of the time if a movie contains sex and violence, it either adds to the movie, or is the only redeeming value of the movie. Can you imagine a movie like Boogie Nights with the sex removed? How about The Matrix with no violence?

Help! I'm being censored!

[WalterDGeranios]

Am I supposed to be happy the EFF is supporting my rights of usage, or upset that is it's supporting a sort of censorship.

Despite what the hippie public school teachers might say, censorship as a social issue isn't about the absence of illicit sex in media; it's about a centralized authority controlling content. In this case, the same social issue is at stake, but the centralized authority wishes to force content instead of withhold it. Censorship in the spooky 1984 sense isn't involved, except possibly for paranoid "slippery slope" theorists.

Re:Yes, let the Mormons edit their DVDs

[zakezuke]

Dear Mormon...

You'll be pleased to note that I have an edited version of Debbie Does Dalles the Next Generation. All sex, nudity, and foul language has been removed. The remaining plot is a heart felt tale of a mother's desire to have her daughter follow in her footsteps. The edited length is 15min and 23seconds.

This has been viewed by Mormans in my family and has been reported as being funny, but is still not reccomended for children under age 13.