There seems to be a lot of confusion going around as a result of the recent ruling against the Utah-based “CleanFlicks” movie-censorship service. In particular, there seems to be a widespread belief that the decision would somehow prohibit you from distributing a set of instructions that would cause a playback device to skip certain portions of a film. I don’t think this is the case at all, and frankly I’m not sure where people got this idea: the law, thanks to a little thing called the “Family Movies Act” is quite clearly on the other side.

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