> EDL is cool. I read and hear about problems with inappropriate media > *all the time* in church and in the Daily Universe. I'm getting sick > of it, because technology can eliminate inappropriate content from > movies. We just need to put the technology in the hands of the > people. It needs to be accessible. It needs to be usable. And we > can't wait on the Hollywood conglomerate to prioritize the > commoditization of such technology.
There's already a way to eliminate the inappropriate content, and it doesn't require any more technology than we had when movies were first created. The way is simple: Don't watch movies that have inappropriate content! I realize that there are people out there who will say that this method eliminates almost everything coming out of Hollywood lately. In fact, /it does/! In the end though, that's probably a good thing: if The Industry knows that there is a large enough group of people who would prefer to watch no movies at all, rather than suffer through the bad parts, then just /maybe/ they'll start making a few good movies again. In that regard, EDL may actually be counter-productive: if Hollywood knows that people can just filter out the bad parts, then Hollywood has no incentive whatsoever to make movies that don't have any bad parts. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
