DVD Sanitizer Accused of X-Rated Behavior

Posted by Eriq Gardner

Remember Clean Flix? It's the Utah-based DVD business that was a favorite of conservative politicians and an anathema to the studios because it edited feature films to remove or alter content deemed inappropriate.

The company's activities sparked a number of lawsuits, including one huge one filed by 16 prominent directors, including Steven Spielberg and Robert Redford, and entertainment studios such as Disney, Sony, Universal, Paramount and Twentieth Century Fox. In 2006, Hollywood won its copyright claims against Clean Flix and the company recently shut down, supposedly due to the industry's legal force.

Well, cover your eyes for this story. Clean Flix founder Daniel Thompson has just been arrested and is accused of having sex with underaged girls. And according to the Salt Lake Tribune, the "booking documents state Thompson told the 14-year-olds that his film sanitizing business was a cover for a pornography studio." Police found a "large quantity" of porno movies inside the business, "along with a keg of beer, painkillers and two cameras hooked up to a television." Thompson has been released after posting $30,000 bail.

We wish we could edit that story out of our heads.

UPDATE: But wait! There's more! Clean Flicks is now suing this guy for falsely claiming to own the company. Full story here.

Comments

[Prexy]

Un$#@!believable.

[Mark]

Always. Always. Always:

Remember this at all times. He who screams the loudest is the most guilty of the very crime they decry. Always. Always. Always.

7 years of the Bush administration has proven that old adage time and time again.

[greg.org]

As a BYU alumnus and filmmaker, no one takes greater pleasure in foiling the hypocrisy of a conservative zealot.

But the porn and hummer dudes are not the founders of the original Clean Flicks. They're just a me-too video rental storefront called Flix Club, which was facing its own eminent shutdown.

[garth]

Prexy: Unbelievable? Expected.

[John Watson]

I had sent e-mails to this company a while ago basically telling them that what they were doing was wrong and would soon surely be illegal. My main issue is that simply buying a copy of a movie for every copy you intend to "clean up" does not address the issue of intellectual property. A clearly God-fearing housewife replied to me and explained "how the industry works". She sure set me straight boy-howdy! This turn of events is a victory for thinking people everywhere!

[Jason]

Greg, the guy who ran Flix Club is the same guy who founded Clean Flicks. From the article. "Thompson formerly operated Clean Flix..."

[Shawn]

Yet another conservanazi hypocrite. Anyone surprised?

This man should spend the rest of his life behind bars, answering to his permanent prom date Bubba.

SMdM

[Ray]

Sorry all you folks but Daniel Thompson was NOT the founder of anything including Cleanflix or Cleanflicks. This guy ran a video store with edited movies. He had nothing to do with Cleanflicks. The reporter should do a better job doing his homework before he gets a libel suit from the real founders of cleanflicks. This is erroneous and innacurate reporting!!!!!!!!!!

[donita Smith]

Wow, Prexy. Even before I saw your post I said to myself, "Always, always, always." No kiddin'!

[Donnacha Costello]

Thompson formerly operated Clean Flix - a business in Orem that edited feature films to remove or alter conduct deemed inappropriate for children or discriminating movie-goers. The store closed in December after threats of legal action from Hollywood studios.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_8083729

[justjoeindenver]

Ain't that the way it goes. The most obnoxious gay-bashers are the ones who haven't come to terms with their sexuality. Those against pornography who rally around the cross are usually found somewhere with a zipper-mask. Above all else, to your own self be true. Then, maybe you won't lash out at everyone who is comfortable with who they are. Sigh. And so it goes.

[JB]

For the record, Daniel Thompson, nor the other gentleman charged had any direct affiliation with CleanFlicks. A press release with more information should be up on CleanFlicks Web site later today.

[Wdunn]

Umm, In researching this...He was indeed co founder of CleanFlicks...which closed in 2006. The name may now belong to another business operation but this was the Grand Executioner of Hollywood movie content. The fact that he is undeniably an protaganist in a modern day LOLITA story should shock and surprise nobody. Reminds me when I was 21 and tried to tell the pastor of a local church that the teenagers who died in a car wreck the previous week were on drugs and booze. His response was that it was not possible because they had always attended Sunday School. It is unfortunate that the Christian Reich fails time and again to see the log in their own eye.

[Super Doobie]

Always, always, always.
Gingrich screamed the loudest when Clinton was doing Monica, and he was having an affair.

Jim Baker was sleeping with call girls while crying for the lord and telling sinners to repent.

Larry Craig passed anti homosexual legislation whole having gay sex.

The list goes on and on.

But yes, the one who screams the loudest is always the guiltiest.

Always, always, always.

[Thomas Jefferson]

again guess what? soooprise, soooprise, soooprise! the perv is yet another, in the long list of pedophile right wing religious nut jobs.

what the fuck is wrong with these uptight closeted freaks?

[Henk]

Looks like Clean Flix has their staff out there doing damage control. So to them I say: This perv is one of yours. The sooner you accept that the sooner you will recover from your own perversions. Acceptence is the first step to recovery.

[Rocco]

I just think it is funny how liberals are always screaming about how judgmental and prejudiced Christians/conservatives are and all I see here is liberals making judgements and generalizations.....Super Doobie, do you care to show me the long list of pedophile right wing religious nuts? How long is it? Is it an official list? Who keeps it? Or is it something that must me true "'cause you read it somewhere on the 'net"? Wdunn....Actually Clinton's problem was the he lied under oath, I know you liberals don't have standards and fooling around with the help may be normal to you. But if it is no big deal, why lie about it? Oh yeah, Prexy, I feel really bad for you and your uncontrolled and irrational HATE for W and all this conservative and Christian, everything bad that happens in the world is W's fault....who are you going to blame once he's gone? Oh yeah, there will still be Christians in the world. Please can someone explain to me what the two pervs in this story have to do with the Bush administration? What triggered this feeding frenzy of liberal demagougery? Oh yeah, HATE!

[infrequent]

did you do your homework on this? daniel was a fraud, not associated with clean flix. he just saw a way to make a buck. does that not figure into your reproach? there are good people out there. there are also some folks who are more than willing to take advantage of the good people... wolves in sheep's clothing. you rebuke the sheep for what the wolf has done, and using daniel as an example really illustrates this. check it out yourself...

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