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Posted by Jerry Chase (Member # 660) on 11-21-2001, 09:30 AM:

Here is something that looks like it might be a HUGE marketing success if the company can get the product developed as described, so that it is more than a simple editing out or resequencing of scenes.

"MOVIE MASK HOME DIRECTOR

EVERY USER CAN BE A DIRECTOR

Never before has there been anything like Movie Mask Home Director. Enhance, edit, alter, and modify the movies you watch to create the movie your way. Our Movie Mask Home Director package not only includes Movie Mask Player, but also gives you the ability to customize your own movies. Through the editing options in this unique Home Director package, you create your own "mask files" for any DVD that you rent or purchase. The DVD is not touched or altered in any way. These "mask files" can be used for your personal viewing, or they can be shared with others. Through Movie Mask Home Director, you will have limitless power to use your imagination to customize all the movies that you want to watch your way. "

This product appears to circumvent the copyright issues involved in other methods of changing film content and redistributing the modified product. In addition, it allows for multiple variations.

The very first thing that popped into my wicked little mind was replacing Jar-Jar with Humphry Bogart, Dilbert, or Snoopy, and raking in millions selling the mask file. Initial marketing is aimed to parents as a method of censoring films, but the creative opportunities are just too good for this type of product for it to be limited to censorship.
www.moviemask.com