WOW,, you're kidding right??
If a film, book painting or whatever is too offensive,, DON'T BUY IT OR WATCH IT. Simple.
But if you take an artistic creation and butcher it to suit your world view, you have changed it. That is misrepresentaion, pure and simple.
So if I send this company a Michael Moore film and they completey conservatize it, so a pair of ninnies can watch it, is it still a Michael Moore film? Can it still be attributed to him? Can we still chastize him for making fiction, calling it reality, slandering the masses, and exposing those who agree with him? Or do we watch the sanitized copy and say, "oh, that Michael Moore, he's such a funny guy, I'd like to shake his hand", when in reality he a complete bullcrap artist and his continued creative style of films earns him social contempt as it should and winds up forcing him to forget any future attempt at film making. MM deserves our contempt, why sanitize his work and keep him safe from world scorn?
Communist governments do this.
They're wrong and this company is wrong and should be sued out of business.
If you want to be protected from the smut, don't watch the film or read the book or look at the painting.
The suit is dumb. Not only is it dumb, it's extraordinarily dumb. The company sanitizing films filled a need. Rather than say, "Hey, here's a profit opportunity!" the film company went for the lawyers.
Basically, the problem is solved with a software patch on the DVD and a cheap feature on the player.
How many more DVDs would they sell if a PG-13 and R version were available on the same disc?