[kimoajax]

Technologists someday will enable a plug-in controller solution that will allow users to have their dvd viewers automatically skip over items they do not wish to view and bleep out offensive words. This should avoid the derivative works argument. Perhaps the sync codes for movies for such a device to work could be downloaded from a web site for free --- which would be a good way to aggregate like minded users for targeted advertising.

I wonder...

[ThinkDifferent]

Technologists someday will enable a plug-in controller solution that will allow users to have their dvd viewers automatically skip over items they do not wish to view and bleep out offensive words.

Already done. My understanding is that they're not impacted by this ruling, because the "editing" occurs entirely on the customer's DVD player.