I sincerely hope that it can hold off degenerating that way, I've been around far too long and I'm kind of hoping that history for once won't repeat itself.

And up until now, it's been a good discussion - it's forced me to have to think to explain my own concerns in new ways, which is never a bad thing from my perspective.

So in the hopes of trying to bring it back on track, I'll toss in a couple of current events I think are "similar" to the risks of this law to artists.

In the UK, Darryn Walker faces charges for writing a porn story involving some band called "Girls Aloud".

In Afghanistan, a student has had his death sentence commuted to 20 years imprisonment for blasphemy - he downloaded material from the 'net regarding women's rights in Islam.

To me, these two cases aren't that much different from the matter at hand - both of them are purely subjective judgment calls about material that doesn't actually involve harm to real people.