[Aquinasfan]

and Guttenberg contributed to mass production of steamy, sexually explicit novels.

Think more along the lines of Al Gore's pornography superhighway.

The iPorn makes it impossible for parents to monitor their childrens' video viewing habits, which is why I would never buy one for my kids. Now kids will be able to get their drugs and their porn at school. One stop shopping.

[Yossarian]

Do you really think there is porn hiding around every corner, ready to leap out and mug your kids? Yes, it is now a big industry, and that's depressing. Yes, when you look at popular culture, there are more pornish and low-class elements in it (especially rap / hip-hop).

But I know the folks over at Apple, ones working in the iTunes Music Store in particular, and I don't know an Al Goldstien, Larry Flynt, or even Hugh Hefner type among them. There was a portable-video company - Archos, I think - that used porn star in their ads. That was sleazy. But Apple isn't Archos.

And with the iPod (as well as other players) you have a central point of where it gets filled up - the iTunes and iPhoto folders on the kid's computer. If you keep tabs on that - and you can even do that unobtrusively over the network - you'll know just what i son the iPod.