2008/12/9 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
I'll hold off on speculating on *why* Amazon UK took it down (has Amazon US done so as well?). But good for them that they did so.
One high street retailer, zaavi (or whatever they're called), took a compromise - they covered the image with a "click this to view, you must be over 18" clickthrough, since it was considered offensive.
Unfortunately, the image they were screening... was the entirely unremarkable black outer casing.
http://www.zavvi.co.uk/productdetails.jsf?code=779728
It's hard not to get the impression impression some people may be reacting to the fuss rather than the actual issue :-)