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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."
Dear /.,
I don't know where else to turn, you're my last hope. See, last year I lost my job at the software factory, the bank forclosed on my house and my wife ran off with a wealthy patent lawyer. Pretty soon my unemployment will run out and I haven't had any leads at all. If I knew how to tie
a hangman's noose I'd kill myself. Is there any advice you can give me?
--Desperate in Detroit
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Dear Desperate -
Sure! We're always happy to help. Start with an 'N' shape of rope, with penty of extra rope off the bottom of the 'N' (nevermind the direction of the 'N'). Keep wrapping tight coils spiraling up the outside until you're satisfied and tuck the end of the rope through the top eye. Pull down the bottom eye to form the loop and trap the tucked
end of the rope. Good luck!
Where's the text about editing out the sexual scenes of Rob Malda eating out a cub scout's ass?
You trolls are getting lazy.
Cover up the statue of Michelangelo's David too, to cover up his naughty bits.
Put big black marks over Botticelli's Birth of Venus painting where you can (gasp) see a nipple!
How about just burn down the Sistine Chapel ceiling because there are tons of naked people running around, even though the Church tried several times over the ages to paint over certain naughty parts, let's just wipe the whole thing clean and just have pretty flowers on it. That way people won't get offended.
Never mind that this is the original visions of the original artists. If you don't want to see it in this day and age...instead of just not viewing it or not looking at it, you must change it to suit your wants.
How about DVD editing software that not only takes out the violence and nudity in a movie but also puts in different dialog? So instead of the script that the nasty nasty writers and directors put in the original movie, we can have them just recite bible quotes!
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon.
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Wow. Spelling troll, religious bigot, and coward all rolled into one. Nice trifecta.
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