President Bush on Wednesday signed legislation aimed at helping parents keep their children from seeing sex scenes, violence and foul language in movie DVDs.

“The bill gives legal protections to the fledgling filtering technology that helps parents automatically skip or mute sections of commercial movie DVDs. Bush signed it privately and without comment,White House press secretary Scott McClellan said.

The legislation came about because Hollywood studios and directors had sued to stop the manufacture and distribution of such electronic devices for DVD players. The movies’ creators had argued that changing the content — even when it is considered offensive — would violate their copyrights.”

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Source: Associated Press

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  1. fungku at 7:43pm 27th April 2005 i think this is lame! Why can't parents be parents and just not allow their kids to watch those movies! I dont like it when government starts trying to step in as a parent.
  2. James at 2:44pm 27th April 2005 I am not opposed to this as long as I can still watch the movies in their original format.
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