The 2G1C defense, while intriguing, is not, alas, novel.

In United States v. Gugliemi (819 F.2d 451), the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals considered the legality of bestial pornography, sided with Alan Dershowitz' contention that the grossness of the events depicted in the defendant's film, "The Snake F**kers" was so extreme as to not appeal to the prurient interests demanded of the pornography standard. In short, it was so gross it was beyond pornography, which is what the defendant here is arguing.

As an interesting sidenote, the judge who decided this case was notoriously lazy, content to give his verdict to his clerks and let them write the decisions, which he would just automatically sign off on. The clerk for this case wanted to test the boundaries and so transcribed in pretty specific detail what was going on in the movies and, sure enough, the judge signed off on it, forever enshrining it in legal pantheon. The case is notorious enough that it was routinely assigned to a writing class at BU's law school for a bunch of years.

That and In re Satan and his Minions, in which the court denied plaintiffs argument that Satan was responsible for his misdeeds, reasoning that personal jurisdiction couldn't be secured over the dark lord...

While I'm sure Marvel wetdreams it were the Microsoft of the comics world, I'd like to think that their writers would aspire to start indie firms that allow for writer-owned creations. Hell, Schuster finally got his rights to Superman established just last week - 70 years later.

As a former owner of Iron Man #1-32 and a few hundred later ones, this just flat out saddens me.

Peter Oliver: There will be no Discussion comments without DHS certified anti-terrorism approval by 2009. Thanks for enabling our corporate/fascist (redundant, I know) overlords. Faith is the answer, eh?

Absolutely brilliant.

It seems like just yesterday Bloom County was outing it as the Death Star...

/sigh

There are other potential grounds for concern in this as well:

1) What is the Acceptable Use Policy? Lazy bastard and fervent non-AT&T user that I am, I haven't checked it out, but it could nonetheless hide worrisome provisions.

2) Violation of "ny applicable policies or guidelines" seems like a large enough loophole to strangle democracy with.