Close, but no cigar.

If you told someone that 20 years ago, they'd have called you a crazed conspiracy theorist and asked where your tinfold hat was. Well, ladies and gentlemen, there you have it. Let's make our life's goal the enforcing of "intellectual property" rights and TOS.

It's all about competition. The price is as high as they can get away with. So if their A->B->C flight competes with direct A->C flights, they will need to ask a similar price. For A->B they compete with other A->B and A->B(-->X) flights which might end up at a higher price point if they can get away with that. It has nothing to do with 'fair' pricing. Just how high they can set it. Booking the A->B->C flight and getting off at B, in their view "robs" them of the extra revenue the A->B flight would have netted them -- even if you wouldn't have bought that ticket in the first place (now where did we hear that again?).

Here's the right analogy. You want 8 apples. The farmer will sell you 8 apples at dollar each, or you can have a bag of 10 apples for 5 dollars. You buy the bag. Then you throw 2 apples away (for the birds), ending up with 8 apples for 5 dollars. The farmer will then sue you since you didn't pay 8 dollars for your 8 apples, and they can't sell the 2 apples you discarded to another customer.

Perhaps a joke for the 'robotic exploration' crew out there. A man walks into a bar. Tells the bartender "Well, it's over for MESSENGER but we're getting a lot of New Horizons data soon!" Bartender: (blank stare).

Look up some old footage of public interest in NASA during the Apollo program. NASA needs to have heroes, and they need to have something that is seen as a major accomplishment. And they need it soon. Luckily the Chinese are the new Russians.

Exactly, otherwise there would have been several trade agreements containing Investor-state dispute settlements and they'd have their native asses sued off (in front of a secretive tribunal, of course).

For the citizens of democratic countries: Canada (and many English-speaking countries) is not a democracy but a geocracy, which ensure geographic regions (called ridings) are fairly represented. As can be seen on this official GoC website less than 4 in 10 Canadians voted for the party that somehow has an absolute majority in parliament.

Savages! Wonder why it took that long for Copyright to be invented.

The record labels (here CRIA, the Canadian RIAA, trying to hide behind the official-sounding 'Music Canada' moniker) often like to say that there is no benefit to society when works fall into the public domain.

Here is what I use. Suppose you haven't been in touch with your father and you learn he passed away, and you have inhereted whatever is in the house he rented. You go to this house, up the attic and find a few dusty containers full of old 50s and 60s vinyl records, most performed by artists you've never heard of, with a record player. You start listening... and can't get enough!

These records falling into the public domain, and being made available by volunteers, is like giving is all these dusty containers full of old vinyls to go through. Yes there might be the odd Leonard Cohen (haven't seen him line up at the food bank, by the way), but the large majority has been forgotten. This is our heritage! This needs to be preserved and widely shared.

On another note, people with vast vinyl collections purchased with the understanding that they would enter the public domain in the mid-to-late 2010s, are they eligible to demand compensation for the sudden drop in value?

So let's everyone swallow a chip that constantly identifies them! That's how we can get those dirty stealing bastards!

Promising DoJ can slip whatever "black box" they want into any data centre / Internet hub owned/operated by TWComcast without question will go a long way.

Correct... it wouldn't be wise to point to "prior art" now would it? But inspiration is perfectly fine... really patent officer, that's all it was! Inspiration!

I'm not seriously considering the two options mentioned in the subject, but one would be driven (cough) to do so. Really? Or is this some kind of smoke screen to hide other changes that are coming? As in "I'm going to KILL you!!" - "Oh, please don't kill me!" - "OK, I'll just take your money instead." - "Oh, thank you! Thank you!"

DAB(+) = Free

Data usage (+ roaming charges) = costly to expensive to "no signal".

Do you work for a wireless carrier?

The fact that we're discussing the copyright and royalty payments on Joseph F'ing Goebbels diaries should tell everyone something about the crazy length of copyright terms... the seeds being laid in a "trade agreement" (of course) signed days after Geronimo surrendered. That same year Benz patented his gasoline internal combustion engine-driven vehicle, a/k/a the "first automobile". If patents (or I should say: inventors) got equal treatment with copyrights in 1886 (authors etc.) our world would look very different.