Flutterby™! : ClearPlay lawsuit 2003-01-31 01:00:02+01

ClearPlay lawsuit

2003-01-31 01:00:02+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

David Coursey on the lawsuits against ClearPlay. If you haven't been following, ClearPlay hopes to sell a DVD player that can take an external edit list, so that you can use the legal DVD in a way that plays their "bleeped" version, with objectionable material removed. Of course I've wanted such a thing ever since hearing about The Phantom Edit(Sam has suggested that similar technology would help Attack Of The Clowns if you could make sections black and white, speed them up by 15%, and put the dialog on cue cards), but it seems that this simple extension of what you could do with a remote or the mute button if you watched the time code quickly offends Hollywood.

I'm wondering how long it'll be before watching a movie involves strapping down the audience so they can't walk out; after all that'd be an edit.

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