Clean Flix Founder Arrested for Porn, Underage Sex

[jgraz]

Raise your hand if you didn't see this one coming.

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.


http://reporter.blogs.com/thresq/2008/01/headline-here.html

[annabanana]

1. delicious.

The "cleaner" they present themselves, the kinkier they are, it seems.

[tekisui]

2. No surprise, Censors are creeps anyway.

[Jed Dilligan]

3. My brother used to work S&P at a sleazy basic cable channel

He'd sometimes bring his work home. We would sit drinking beers and trying to catch genitals and swear words that the other one didn't. It was good fun. "Oh! Nipple!" "Hey, he just said fuck!" He would write down the frame numbers and that would tell the editors where to blur and bleep. Good times.

[kimmerspixelated]

4. Good that they were caught!

I think those kind of sleazy bastards ought to STAY in jail! OR, have their peepee nailed to a stump, set it on fire, and then hand them a knife!