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[trinityvixen]

Sanitize this!

So, all those crazy people who think if they clean up the language/violence/nudity in a film, that things like Pulp Fiction might still be okay to watch? Officially p'wned.

The writer of this article is very kind to them, though, letting the complete idiots who would rent, say, Basic Instinct and not expect it to contain nudity, know there is still a way to keep their puritanical virgin eyes clean:

In the meantime, those who find cursing and nudity in movies unacceptable are advised to simply not watch films that contain content they find objectionable.

Comments

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Excellent! What about that software that edits the DVD as you play it? That doesn't look to be quite the same as editing a movie and selling it.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

You're selling the means to alter the project, which can only be used to violate the settlement reached here, so probably not. It's not like V-chip, where you just block out shows rated at being more mature than you want kids exposed to. This is actually tampering with the tape, which is something the "Let's put the warning about piracy and such in English AND French just so they get the message" guys in Hollywood like to let happen...

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

Aww, don't be one of those! That's the same argument they used against DeCSS.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I'm not one of those. I'm just saying that's what they'll say. The law, she is a harsh mistress.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Indeed it is. Particularly that moronic law. If legislators would spend 1% of the time they spend griping about abortion, gay marriage, and stem cells on writing sensible technology law...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, any software that could possibly infringe is baaaaad. Instead of, you know, trusting consumers to buy responsibly, which I think iTunes has proven the majority of them have, will, and will continue to do.

I dunno. This is the congress, and they don't want to be smart about technology. They want to make technology fit the more antiquated methods of conversing and transacting that they are comfortable with. Idiots.

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

The thing about trying to prohibit one VERY specific piece of information in an otherwise information-free society is that there are always ways around it.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Bzuwah? I don't understand how a number can be illegal. Only in this country...

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

That's exactly their point. Computer data can be represented as a number. They've managed to find an intrinsically important number (a very large prime) which is also this "illegal" computer program, so they can say, "WTF, is the government going to ban this number from lists of primes used in mathematical research?" or the like. It highlights just how dumb the premise is. If you read the CSS page you'll see how else its been encoded for similar humor value (I'd love to hear a "dramatic reading" of it!)

[slackwench.livejournal.com]

Some guy made a device which would block out objectionable content based on the words in the hearing impaired subtitles, replacing them with alternatives which were ok. It didn't work all that well though. For example, it replaced "Dick van Dyke" with "Jerk van Gay".