Hollywood Says No to Filtering DVD Player 648
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."
I agree with them (Score:5, Funny)
Should be interesting (Score:5, Funny)
Wait, strike that, reverse it, thank you. (Score:5, Funny)
illegal (Score:5, Funny)
FBI warnings too? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not a criminal, I bought the DVD and I just want to see the damn movie. I want to remove those warnings
Re:To play devil's advocate, (Score:5, Funny)
The Phantom Edit! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wait, strike that, reverse it, thank you. (Score:5, Funny)
Consider the alternative (Score:4, Funny)
A device that does that puts the power to choose what to see and what not to see in the hands of the consumer, where it belongs.
Re:Money == porn (Score:5, Funny)
That has some really neat implications. If it were possible to replace one image with another on-the-fly, then it would be possible to do it for other things than Coke cans. For example, bodies.
I doubt that you could induce most folks to apply a mod which would change Pepsi to Coke, but I bet a lot of folks would apply mods which would replace clothed actors with unclothed. Or John Wayne instead of Vin Diesel. Or an unclothed John Wayne instead of Linda Lovelace. The possibilities are endlessly disgusting.
Just to get back on-topic, that's NOT what the article is describing! What IS being described is a way to automatically skip certain sections of a movie:(from the article [zdnet.com])
That's a lot simpler than your pipedream, though not half so nifty.Why of course not... (Score:2, Funny)
We're trying create a brave new world here people, get with the program...
Does this mean? (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, Animal House is great for kids... (Score:1, Funny)
Let the kids see the titties.
Re:Money (Score:5, Funny)
You *already* can do this. When I watch a DVD, and it has ads at the beginning, I leave the room to get snacks & drinks. What's next -- getting sued because I'm skipping the ads?!
sex as the only adult theme? (Score:5, Funny)
It's really ironic that the beautiful things need hiding and the distressing things are left in plain view.
It's bad enough they end up seeing shite like Shallow Hal.
What films would be on offer anyway?
Alien
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5 people go into space, one by one they go missing then Ripley says "it's alright now, they've gone".
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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Gang of teenagers go into the woods. One comes out.
Deep Throat
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Woman goes to the doctors. The End.
Pulp Fiction
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Two guys talk about fast food. Man & woman do a funny dance. Two guys drink coffee.
Jaws
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Some people go swimming and don't come back. Man goes to find a shark.
Watch out, slashdotters! (Score:5, Funny)
ugh.
Re:FBI warnings too? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I would think Hollywood would profit from this. (Score:2, Funny)
I think they're worried about the value of their content. I mean, what if somebody made a DVD player that re-edited Episode II to be a lot more interesting. Nobody'd pay $20 for 20 minutes of content!
What next? (Score:3, Funny)
In other news ... movie viewers sued for lateness (Score:2, Funny)
At the same theater, other viewers were sued for going to the bathroom in the middle of the film or leaving early. The amount of compensation sought in the lawsuits was based on the length of time the viewers had missed from the film, so eventually they decided it was not worth it to sue a young lady who covered up her eyes for 2.3 seconds during the beheading scene.
What about the V-Chip? (Score:1, Funny)