Title: "Clean Flix" Store Operator Arrested
Description: Statutory Rape...and oh, a Porno Studio!
William D'Annucci - January 30, 2008 09:14 PM (GMT)
From IMDB:
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Operator of "Clean Flix" Store Arrested for Statutory Rape
The operator of the Utah-based Flix Club, which, as part of the Clean Flix chain, drew fire from major studios for removing scenes depicting sex and violence from home videos, has been arrested in Orem, Utah on charges of having sex with underaged girls. According to Orem police, Daniel Thompson also told the girls that his business was actually a cover for a pornography studio and asked them to participate in making a porn movie. The police report also said that they uncovered a "large quantity" of pornography at Thompson's business. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Thompson told the arresting officers that he was unaware that the girls were not of legal age and that the porn movies were for his "personal use." Thompson previously operated the Clean Flix franchise in Orem but shut it down last month after giving away 400 sanitized versions of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. The studios, he said at the time, had told him that "if I don't shut down, they would break me." |
Obviously, it's terrible these girls were taken advantage of... but I can't be the only one here who find hypocrisy like this hilarious.
Marty McKee - January 30, 2008 09:22 PM (GMT)
But not surprising. As recent Washington sex scandals have shown, those who protest the loudest are often the guilty ones.
Lisa Larkin - February 1, 2008 05:08 AM (GMT)
Maybe he was saving the naughty bits he cut out of films for his "personal use".
Craig Blamer - February 1, 2008 08:17 AM (GMT)
Um... what was there to be sanitized about PotC: AWE?
On the other hand, he's probably being framed by the MPAA.
Ahem.
Lisa Larkin - February 1, 2008 10:04 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Craig Blamer @ Feb 1 2008, 02:17 AM) |
Um... what was there to be sanitized about PotC: AWE?
On the other hand, he's probably being framed by the MPAA.
Ahem. |
I can't think of any nudity in POTC but didn't Clean Flix first emerge in the wake of TITANIC? I seem to recall their first big thing was excising Kate Winslet's nude scene.
Michael Wells - February 1, 2008 12:35 PM (GMT)
What is the maximum allowable daily level of schadenfreude according to the EPA?
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| I seem to recall their first big thing was excising Kate Winslet's nude scene. |
TITANIC without Winslet's nude scene... now there's obscenity.
William D'Annucci - February 1, 2008 05:53 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Lisa Larkin @ Feb 1 2008, 05:04 AM) |
| ...didn't Clean Flix first emerge in the wake of TITANIC? I seem to recall their first big thing was excising Kate Winslet's nude scene. |
I'm sure morally-conscious parents were fine with all the frozen dead people. But, considering they were most likely buying these "cleaned" copies for their pre-adolescent daughters, it's only right that they should shield them from the idea that a woman's body could be a thing of beauty and a subject of art. :rolleyes:
Adding to the news, the guy arrested was one of the Cleanflicks founders.
Jay Gillespie - February 2, 2008 09:38 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (William D'Annucci @ Feb 1 2008, 05:53 PM) |
| Adding to the news, the guy arrested was one of the Cleanflicks founders. |
According to Cleanflicks, which is obviously trying to distance themselves from this incident, the man in question, Daniel Dean Thompson, wasn't a co-founder of the company, nor worked for or in conjunction with Cleanflicks in any capacity, and started running the Flix Club store after Cleanflicks had sold it off.
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctlivebl...flicks_fig.htmlThey've filed a lawsuit against Thompson for falsely claiming to be associated with Cleanflicks.
John Black - February 3, 2008 01:31 AM (GMT)
I wish that Thompson had been busted by Dateline:To Catch a Predator.