[DJ MacWoW]

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."

[albyjimc2]

I believe you just explained to me what I just explained to you. Read what you copied me one more time, and notice the four words after the underlined statement..

"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."

[MamaTexan]

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.

It's called intellectual property. Movies belong to the company that makes them, and cannot be legally altered without permission. The fact the contents are objectionable to some people is immaterial.

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"There is a public interest in providing such protection."

This phrase means the right to intellectual property is absolute and belongs to everyone equally.

If the clean films company bought a copy of a movie, cleaned it, and made 1000 copies to sell, they did indeed violate the law because they profited from some one else's intellectual property without compensating the originator for every copy.

It's stealing.