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To: BenLurkin

CleanFlicks produces and distributes sanitized copies of Hollywood films on DVD by burning edited versions of movies onto blank discs. The scrubbed films are sold over the Internet and to video stores.

As many as 90 video stores nationwide -- about half of them in Utah -- purchase movies from CleanFlicks, Lines said. It's unclear how the ruling may effect those stores.



Whether these discs are sold on the street in New York, or at a video store in Utah, they are still considered "bootleg copies" because they are not sold by the original company who put them out on disc (or VHS). You cannot burn DVD's or CD's and sell them. It is against the law and way you slice it.


15 posted on 07/08/2006 9:42:39 PM PDT by albyjimc2 (If dying's asked of me, I'll bear that cross with honor, cause freedom don't come free...)
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To: albyjimc2
Whether these discs are sold on the street in New York, or at a video store in Utah, they are still considered "bootleg copies"

Except the ruling says nothing about bootlegging. It says: "Their (studios and directors) objective ... is to stop the infringement because of its irreparable injury to the creative artistic expression in the copyrighted movies," the judge wrote. "There is a public interest in providing such protection."

27 posted on 07/08/2006 9:50:28 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: albyjimc2
Now that makes sense. If the issue is illegal copies then the question of "sanitizing" is not the real problem at all.

But again, the article does not say that or that that is the concern of the studios in these lawsuits. Now, if you are in the industry perhaps you know whether tyhe studios ever do license out the production of discs under other circumstances.

The article states: Editing movies to delete objectionable language, sex and violence is an "illegitimate business" that hurts Hollywood studios and directors . . . that hurts Hollywood studios and directors".

Who cares? Frankly their 'artistic expression' is all too often perverse and demented.

35 posted on 07/08/2006 9:53:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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To: albyjimc2
Whether these discs are sold on the street in New York, or at a video store in Utah, they are still considered "bootleg copies" because they are not sold by the original company who put them out on disc (or VHS). You cannot burn DVD's or CD's and sell them. It is against the law and way you slice it.

They are sold in a two-pack with the original included. The studio loses nothing.

78 posted on 07/08/2006 10:43:10 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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