[poindexters brother]

What are you talking about?! They aren't cheating the studios out of any profits - for each film they scrub and sell, they buy a copy of the original and destroy it.

It's a great service. Take a fun movie like "Christmas Vacation" - 98% of it is clean and genuinely funny. There's a small portion that contains the f-word that I would rather not deal with around my kids. These businesses scrub it and I get a funny, clean film, the studio gets their cut and the scrubber gets a few dollars for editing services. No one forced me to buy their editing service.

[Strategerist]

It's still done without the permission of the director and the company that produced the movie. That's the whole point.

[Strategerist]

What are you talking about?! They aren't cheating the studios out of any profits - for each film they scrub and sell, they buy a copy of the original and destroy it.

Ok, so someone buys 1000 copies of the Passion of the Christ, adds in scenes of Christ uttering profanities and having sex, sells them, but destroys the originals.

Fine with you I presume.

[watchin]

Apparently, some people feel that the f word is art.

[GAB-1955]

The principle is this: the owner of an intellectual property has the right to determine how it is sold or used. No one else does, not even for a "higher" good. Even if CleanFlicks paid royalties for the movie, what they have done is the legal equivalent of stealing someone's car, painting it, and having a new stereo put in. It's still stolen property.

When you buy a movie, you don't buy the copyright to that movie. You buy rights to see the movie. You can't show that movie for profit in front of others.

You can't paint your neighbor's house because you don't like the decor.

What CleanFlicks did was steal someone's property and change it. The moral issues are important but not relevant to this issue.