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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. This is all well and good... by xchino · · Score: 1, Redundant

    But where is the software to *add* sex and violence to my movies where I don't feel there's enough?

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  2. Re:I totally support this idea by DickBreath · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What if no copyright material were redistributed?

    Suppose only an edit list were distributed. The edit list would tell your DVD/Tivo/Freevo/Movix/etc. what parts to skip or play.

    Now you could skip directly to the commercials without having to watch the show. You can do this already manually. But I'm just suggesting that we standardize technology to make it easy to watch only the commercials by use of an edit list.

    Now suppose the edit list were available over the net very shortly after a tv broadcast? All it is is a list of numbers. What could be wrong with that?

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  3. Re:Editing... by DickBreath · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What if no copyright material were ever copied?

    What if they just sold an "edit list" that your DVD player / Tivo / Freevo / Movix could use to play only the parts that you don't want to see?

    Now there would be no copyright issue. Nobody is selling an edited movie claiming it is a "Steven Spielberg" movie. All of these claims just disappear.

    What if they also rent special DVD players that can accept the edit list. (Maybe edit list is a little itty-bitty Multi Media Card that plugs into the side of the player.)

    How would this be any different than you manually fast forwarding to the parts you don't wish to see? How would this be different than me recommending to you which parts you watch? Aren't I free to make such recommendations? Aren't you free to accept or reject such recommendations? What if those recommendations were provided in the form of a text file "edit list" that your DVD player understood?

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