suggested DVD editing toolset?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:22:26 -0700,
  Kevin Kempter <kevink at consistentstate.com> wrote:
> Hi All;
> 
> I'm sad to find that all of the companies that set out to provide modified 
> copies of DVD movies with the token hollywood crap removed and the language 
> cleaned up have all been sued into oblivion by hollywood.
> 
> So, I'd like to to modify my own DVD's and watch the cleaned up copies. 
> However I'm totally oblivious to even the slightest details about this area of 
> computing (I'm a database guy). So, Im looking for suggestions per user 
> friendly oss tools to pull this off and possibly info/web sites that will 
> explain more about how to do this.

I think companies are allowed to do this now. The latest release from the
EFF I could find about it suggests says that a law was passed to specifically
make it clear that Clearplay could provide a way to do that.

There are still ongoing DMCA abuses making it harder.

You might find the following useful or interesting reading:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/06/child-safe-viewing-a