John Harrison's Journal: CleanFlicks should be championed by /.

Every time CleanFlicks or similar services/technologies come up on /. there is a decided bias against them by the submitters, editors, and commenters. They're all missing the bigger picture! As I said in the most recent article:

This is a win for big copyright and a loss for free culture. /.ers are only seeing censorship here when they should be seeing remixing and control of content that you've bought. /. has consistently been on the wrong side of this issue because of a lack of vision about what it represents. How /. can champion Free DVD software for Linux so that you can watch a movie on the OS of your choice but not favor this is a mystery to me. What if that Free player knew how to skip the booring bits (Jar Jar?) or replay the naughty bits in slow mo while leaving the original media untouched? All the /.ers would be lining up behind it! But if someone uses technology for a purpose that is seen as socially conservative all the idiots here go bonkers. Your fear of "censorship" has blinded you to a corporate power grab of your culture.

Can someone out there in journal land explain to me why so many here at /. take the corporate/anti-free stance on this?

Funny.

[Philip K Dickhead]

My "real" name is...

Harrison John.

Re:Funny.

[John Harrison]

I imagine there are fewer of you than there are of me.

Re:Funny.

[Philip K Dickhead]

Lot's of Canucks christian-named "Harrison". ;-)

And I agree

[Philip K Dickhead]

Let the bigots and prudes use their ferocious persistance to free our media rights! It is a good distraction from having them fight to censor everything for the rest of us. And, they tend to acheive the results they want... Look at Santorum and Frist!

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