CleanFlicks v. Kate Winslet's Breasts.

• Author: Welke, Julie
• Position: Letters - Letter to the editor

Maybe Hollywood is stupid, as Nick Gillespie says in "CleanFlicks v. Kate Winslet's Breasts" (October), to underserve the religious market for wholesome family entertainment. But a company that creates a secondary revenue stream on modified source material is still stealing.

It's true that each consumer "edits" artistic content through a personal filter that includes life experience, beliefs, preferences, etc. It's also true that copying cassettes, burning CDs, and skipping over commercials and dumb sitcom jokes constitute personalization of the consumer experience. But there's no money exchanged, and the "filterer" does not occupy the same...