I am not being an idiot. If you had read the article, this case is about a specific case against a specific company. A company who takes films, takes out content that a group of conservative-minded people feel is offensive and then sells it. That infringes copywrite and they should not be allowed to do it.

The case with The Passion of the Christ is a completely different story. The people calling for its ban were not infringing on copywrite. They were concerned about backlash against Jews (whose claims I feel were exagerrated IMO - I personally could care less about a film about Jesus getting beat up)

I do excuse myself for making generalizations about people, but when I heard about this story last year or whenever it was, I found it perposterous.

As far as fan-edits are concerned, this ruling is nothing more than a reminder that you can't take copywrited material and sell it without having the rights to do it. Fan edits are not being sold - they are meerily a hobby passed and shown between friends. It's fine. The REAL issue we should be concerned about is the DMCA and how that affects edits made from DVD sourced material.