Not that there was ever any doubt that Congress would pass this, but yesterday the House of Representatives approved the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005. Besides making it explicitly legal for companies like ClearPlay to sell software which automatically edits out anything that anyone might possibly find objectionable from DVDs, the bill also makes it a federal crime to use a video camera to record films in movie theaters (punishable by up to three years in prison for the first offense) and sets a penalty of up to ten years in prison for sharing a movie or a song prior to its commercial release.

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Originally posted by Yan and sets a penalty of up to ten years in prison for sharing a movie or a song prior to its commercial release[/b].

what about unsigned tunes!?

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People who record movies in theaters with video cameras belong in jail anyways.

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Originally posted by UWM People who record movies in theaters with video cameras belong in jail anyways.

Pulp_fiction.avi, u want i kidd

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On OOKA-OOKA ME NACHOS ME PRESS KEYS ON COMPUTER GOOD

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Besides making it explicitly legal for companies like ClearPlay to sell software which automatically edits out anything that anyone might possibly find objectionable from DVDs

What does this mean?

...assuming someone got Pulp Fiction on dvd or something, does this mean they can automatically censor it for the theatres it plays in? And on the DVD it comes out? ...Or does it mean movie companies will have to start releasing two copies of their movie, censored and uncensored?

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Uhhh.... Its this thing that certain DVD makes can put into their DVD players that will censor uncensored movies. Walmart sells them.

Ahhh okay, I obviously misinterpreted that part then.



And I just read an article about it, but the article only mentioned people illegally distributing the movie, it didn't mention people downloading movies then deleting them / not sharing them (ie. leeching ... which is what I do when I fileshare :/ ). Assuming they have ways to detect whether someone also uploads movies to other people ( therein sharing ?)

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its never going to stop.

the government spends all their money enforcing private morality, which has proven itself ineefective (IE: war on marijuana/drugs). they should just accept it, and spend money on the things the country needs, free, socialized health care, etc. not putting people in jail while millions like them run free.

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