Companies providing technology that allows consumers to edit content of major movie titles touted new legislation passed this week that uses copyright law to guarantee the legality of such technology, which is currently being challenged by Hollywood movie studios and directors. Companies such as Salt Lake City-based ClearPlay — which sells DVD players and recorders, televisions, cable and set-top boxes and digital video recorders that filter unwanted sexual and violent content, as well as foul language — hailed the legislation as a boost to user control.
In my opinion, Mike Goodman is wrong in assuming that people are not interested in censoring what their children (and themselves) watch on tv or in movies. I personally stopped watching rated "R" movies a long time ago and so have many of my friends, even some "PG-13" movies do not have the best content. There are many parents who do not care, but fortunately there a lot that do and I think one of the reasons this technology is not more popular is that it has not been sufficiently publicized. I would love to have a dvd player that allows me to cut inappropriate material from the movies that I haven't dared but would have watched. With regard to the subject of "loosing the art" of a movie, I think I would consider my civil liberties attacked if I wasn't allowed to watch a movie the way I want to in my own home! Actually, if these dvd players become more common, the film industry may end up selling more dvds than before, since people are going to be able to watch them without worrying about the content.
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Congress Clears Movie Censoring Technology
Posted by: Jay Lyman April 20, 2005 12:08 PMCompanies providing technology that allows consumers to edit content of major movie titles touted new legislation passed this week that uses copyright law to guarantee the legality of such technology, which is currently being challenged by Hollywood movie studios and directors. Companies such as Salt Lake City-based ClearPlay — which sells DVD players and recorders, televisions, cable and set-top boxes and digital video recorders that filter unwanted sexual and violent content, as well as foul language — hailed the legislation as a boost to user control.