That wouldn't be very reassuring.

Childs is an idiot and yes, idiots go to jail. lets see him argue with Bubba about access to his ass.

I realize this is off topic, but it's a pet peeve of mine. Jail rape does happen on a wide scale, and it's a travesty. Making jokes about it seems to be the norm, but it shouldn't be. We don't actually sentence people to rape, because that's barbarous - right?

I'm pretty sure there is absolutely no argument for or against climate change in the Nazi suppression of Jewish scientists.

"It came to the point where we were getting customer complaints from women who found the content getting too degrading and objectionable, as well as parents who were upset with what their kids were able to see."

I for one am sick of every open medium being censored in the hopes of keeping kids from learning about the naughty bits. Couldn't they just keep these in a separate, awesome part of the app store?

...the last time Kevin Smith made a headline it was "Kevin Smith Previews Revenge of the Sith", and I don't think he did that on twitter.

As part of the nerd media /. is in fact part of Kevin Smith's personal army, so we muster our outrage to avenge him. Boo Southwest! Mean ol' corporation!

I'm sure we can look forward to a vigorous debate, where both sides bring up excellent points. I certainly cannot say where the slashdot community will land on this question, and the article certainly doesn't give any hints! Thanks, Ben, for your valuable question, and I hope you find the answers both challenging and enlightening.

Well, singers have a direct stake in the system. They benefit from copyrights, and they are the innovators meant to be protected by it. Just because you haven't studied policy for years doesn't mean you don't have valid perspectives. Artists DO have a unique view to share! (on this issue, anyway; I don't mean to say that Bono really has anything important to contribute on the sexy cars issue)

Of course the greater reason this is here is that it will move papers/mad clicks. If Tiger Woods wanted to give his view on copyright and innovation right now, you betcha the NYT would oblige him with an op-ed.

Who said they were smart? Power is not intelligence, and it's certainly not rationality. I would love to live in a world where Taoist sages allowed the people to look after themselves, but the world is run by greedy, power-hungry people, not a few of whom have serious mental issues that would be called sociopathy or narcissism in poorer people.

Sony could make it more accessible at little cost, but they haven't, and the market isn't about to compel them. Applying the ADA really doesn't sound unreasonable. He's not asking for drastic changes or anything:

That's not difficult to implement - Sony should have done this on their own.

True, but one would imagine this would skew the results in countries where drugs or prostitution are illegal more than it would where they aren't.

As for the citations requested above, I don't know much about prostitution, but Glenn Greenwald wrote a white paper for the Cato Institute in which he discusses Portugal's success with decriminalization of all drugs. There's a link to it on this page: http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=5887 .

On a side note I don't know how much piracy is being turned into a vice. My sense is that very few people associate any shame with it.

And of course we should, since 'loyalty to my genes' is not an emotion anybody feels, let alone lives life by.

It's no more theft than copying music, and slightly less. There's a difference between charging for a song and extortion, which is that one is a completely voluntary luxury exchange, and the other involves men with bats. Infringe copyrights if you want to (I do!), but don't dress it up with rationalizations.