2pnet.net News:- Get ready for an escalation in screaming and shouting from Hollywood enforcer the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America).

A San Francisco-based company figures it’s found a way for film fans to edit copyrighted movies —– without being sued.

“Cuts allows anyone to remix copyright content legally,” Cuts Inc states unequivocally on its site. “You bring the video - we bring the edits.”

With that in mind, it’s currently offering a free beta of an application it promises, “is going to change the way people watch videos”.

How does it work?

Cutlists are “virtual edits separated from the content itself” and with them, “users can share their creations over the Internet,” says Cuts. “The cutlists then act like a virtual remote control, automatically skipping, stopping, muting or playing comments created by the ‘Cut-Maker.’

“Cutlists work with DVDs and multiple download video formats including Protected WMV files and even video purchased from iTunes.”

In July Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Norman Jewison were among Hollywood producers who announced a victory over companies offering sanitized (read edited) movies.

“With the Cuts Player and Cuts’ online Directory service, users can post their own edits, as well as navigate through a variety of categories and lists of popular Cuts made by others,” says IMDb, adding:

“What makes the system legal, the company claims, ‘is that the edits people make never alter the original video. Instead, Cuts generates a set of instructions, called ‘Cutlists’, which implement the edits on the fly any time the video is played back with the Cuts Player software. Viewers must have the original video in order to view the edited version.”

Also See:
announced a victory - Movie sanitizers sanitized, September 25, 2004
IMDb - A Legal Way To Censor Movies?, September 26, 2006

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