Statutory Rape charges against Utah Anti-Dirty-Word Activist
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Album:Roadie for the Kinks
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Track:Malibu Guru
As you may or may not know, there's a big hoohah over companies who offer "clean" or "Family" versions of PG13 and R rated films on cassette or DVD. The studios claim (and i tend to agree) that it's illegal to sell a re-edited version of an existing work without authorisation, even if you're officially selling the original tape or disk and just "giving away" your censored dversion.Well, like so many other high-profile anti-porn, anti-gay crusaders, at least one prominent practitioner of this business has apparently been making a lot of noise to distract people from his real feelings, and perhaps to even deny them to himself:
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."
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