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