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EFF Supporting Home DVD Editing

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the another-front-to-worry-about dept.

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."

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  1. Editing DVDs by mhesseltine · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From the article:

    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.

    I have no problem with the violence or sex. What I want to edit out are the mandatory previews, FBI warnings, "The comments made are those of the individual and not the studio", kinds of things. Those bother me far more than the content of the video. Any word on if that's a possibility?

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  2. I totally support this idea by imAck · · Score: 5, Interesting

    To me this is like muting the TV when the commercials come on. The notion that "editing" content being wrong or illegal? Come on. What are they going to do next, tell you you can't cover your eyes during a scary part of the movie?

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  3. Re:It ups the potential audience size by aborchers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't see why empowering the customer in this way would be bad for Hollywood. The customer wins, but I don't see the flipside loss.


    The argument I've heard is that the film's directors disapprove of their work being "altered" so as to change the artistic vision. This was in connection not with software for consumers but in the context of companies that were reselling modified discs to consumers, but if all copyright conditions are fulfilled (paying for each copy of the disc up front) I don't see why the cases would be different.

    I for one don't recall hearing any directors or studios complaining about the damage to their artistic vision when their films get edited for TV audiences and they get a big royalty check...

    My guess is the real motive for opposing this technology is that the implicit copying involved would be a step onto a slippery slope that undermines their draconian stance on copy control.

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  4. If I can edit out the sex and violence... by hndrcks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can also edit out the coming attractions, Pepsi commercials, stupid music videos and other forms of 'coordinated marketing'...

    ...and therein lies the rub.

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