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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heretic Apostate" data-source="post: 2285297" data-attributes="member: 696">If it's what I'm thinking of, they're not editing the movie.  They're not altering the movie at all.  They've simply programmed a proprietary DVD player to skip over selected portions of the DVD.  And the viewer has to pay for the service. You see, this is different than censorship.  A person chooses to purchase the proprietary DVD player.  They choose to pay for the service which tags violent, sexual, or vulgar content (which the DVD player then skips). They're not forcing viewers to get edited DVDs.  They're providing a service that people would have to do manually otherwise.  (E.g., diving for the remote to get past a scene of a nude woman.) Now, if you want to get upset, get upset at Walmart, which forces vendors to deliver edited media.  I've ended up with several of those through eBay, and how I wish they had been labeled!  I don't mind Walmart doing this (though it makes it expensive, since they have to release multiple versions), but make it VERY CLEAR that you're getting an edited version...  Sheesh...</blockquote>