Everybody knows that laptop megabytes are bigger than cell phone megabytes.

I blame cars for job losses in the stagecoach industry. I blame electricity for job losses in the candle making industry. I blame the print industry for job losses in the hand made book. I blame the industry carne for job losses in the construction industry.

Censorship by the American Government isn't that far fetched of an idea ... if you take the blinders off for a moment. What if the Internet Kill Switch proposal goes through, something happens to make the US government decide to disconnect Americans from the Internet and China offers a tool to help Americans reconnect to the 'Net?

Exactly my thoughts: at the same time the US government is looking for ways to help Chinese citizens bypass Chinese censorship, the US government also looking for ways to be able to censor US citizens.

They'll just say a little molestation is a price worth paying to ensure our "safety".

Can you represent a rights holder without their consent?

Who needs to commit perjury? If a person has an Internet connection, it's pretty much guaranteed that they've violated the DMCA in at least a small way.

What is this "chance to defeat ACTA" of which you speak? The process has been specifically designed to keep us excluded it's too far along to change. At this point, the best we can hope for is wisdom from countries that are less concerned about the freedoms of their corporations and more concerned about the freedoms of their citizens.

Yep, well, when it cost less to produce a newspaper for the iPad than it does to print one and you have the balls to try and sell it for more than a printed newspaper, I'm sure you'd love the iPad as well ... at least until you find out that people aren't as dumb as you thought and they don't save your collapsing industry by buying into your inflated subscriptions.

What happens when you conspire to infiltrate groups with conspiracy theories?

If it violates child porn laws when children are involved, does that mean it's regular porn when adults are involved? So much for not violating privacy.

Yup. And yet, almost every major website with advertising has figured out a way to deliver ads that are not only localized, but also, and even better, targeted based on my browsing habits. If content distributors would take a moment to step into this century, they would realize that they don't have to license the content locally. All they need to do is to get local advertisers to *come to them* and then distribute the ads appropriately based on IP. They've already figured out how to *block* us geographically based on IP ... but, content distributors always seem good with technology when it comes to *pissing off* their customers.

I only ever read 4 of the books in the series, and found them to be WAY too large. The first book split in half down the spine before I finished it. And, I was grateful because it was easier to read. Books 2-3 I split on my own before I even started reading them.

Same here. Got through the first few books, and stopped once I realized that it was going to take at least 15 years before I'd ever see an ending.

And, there is nothing remotely new in this. Marketing agencies have had paid actors posing as real customers for ever. Most of Apple's "Switchers" were paid to say so. All of Microsoft's laptop shoppers were paid to choose a laptop running Windows and complain about Apple.