I recently had a post where I speculated about greasemonkeying, filtering your own reality, either through your choice of news and entertainment providers or through software. State of the Art has gone beyond two or more versions of movies or DVDs released for different markets. Here is an article discussing the independently produced software filters for DVDs.
One company, (CleanFlicks, simply copies a DVD, edits the content, and sells copies of that altered DVD. CleanFlicks buys one original DVD for every sanitized copy they sell, to avoid infringing on the studio's copyright.)
But other companies employ innovative technology that undoubtedly would have excited many DGA directors back in their younger, more open-minded days. For example, ClearPlay software allows playback of modifications to Hollywood movies without making a copy of the original. You simply put your store-bought DVD movie into a player, fire up the ClearPlay software along with a file designed for that particular movie, and ClearPlay automatically cuts out certain scenes and mutes certain words from the soundtrack.
Other DVD censorware technologies are even more advanced than ClearPlay remote-control macros. MovieMask, for example, doesn't skip over scenes--it actually alters images so that you see the scene, but not what MovieMask deems to be offending content within the frame. The "masks" are elaborately painted to be as unobtrusive as possible. In Titanic, for example, Kate Winslet's breasts get Ashcrofted with great skill by MovieMask....
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