The suit is dumb. Not only is it dumb, it's extraordinarily dumb. The company sanitizing films filled a need. Rather than say, "Hey, here's a profit opportunity!" the film company went for the lawyers.
Basically, the problem is solved with a software patch on the DVD and a cheap feature on the player.
How many more DVDs would they sell if a PG-13 and R version were available on the same disc?
Fills a need????
You can't honestly think anything that requires sanitizing needs viewing? If you do, you're giving a pass to the smut, the producer and financier for the selfish sake of your own enjoyment and you're tricking the very market place conservatives rely on to meter that market.
They can claim they are filling a need, but the fact is, its not their property to alter, they do not have the rights to do that, and especially to profit off of someone else's work. That is why there are copyright laws. If I wrote a book or directed a film, its mine, and it will be in the format I decide its going to be in, not anyone else.
I don't care how you feel about this, its a property argument. The films are not in the public domain, they are owned by someone and they decide what happens to it.