That is a bad point, I believe. Tetris is a solo game. WoW is a social one.
If you drop out of any social environment for 6 months, relationships will disintergrate. Be it Wow, Facebook, and particularly Real Life
It's not a clever or devious or manipulative attempt of WoW, it's one of the core tennants of any social game, which means all MMOs, Social Networking sites, and real life itself.
To use a real life example of this: Many people go to family gatherings only once or twice a year - christmas/thanksgiving/etc, and spend this time to "catch up" with everyone else... The "hard-core" Ralatives (usually your parents) will try to get you to spend more time "with the family" and be more involved, and offer incentives and rewards (or at least a lack of guilt) if you do so. Those who decide to be "more involved" usually work twice as hard till they catch up, spending time with their neices and nephews, etc, untill they're up to par with their other relatives in ... you see where this is going, I'll stop now.

I play Wow, but I started on twitch based FPS and loved them all. Doom, Hexen, ROTT, Quake, UT.
But when it started getting into crap (imo) like team fortress I realised that for team play with specific roles, etc, WoW does it so much better.
Unfortunatly I moved to the other side of the planet, but if I was still near my friends (or even in the same timezone) We'd probably still be running LAN parties with the classic FPSs

Nah, you raid with a guild that matches the time you want to play. If you don't you're retarded (and I was retarded, which is why I ended up quitting for a large chunk of time, not making the same mistake this time round)
Raiding is nothing like grinding. Grinding is something that basically anyone can do. it takes no skill, no coordination, and gives no sense of achievment.
Raiding (assuming you do it right) is a combination of skill, practice, effort and working as part of a team, and can feel very satisfying as you suceed.
Sure it's still not for everyone, some can't work as a team, or don't have the skill, or just don't want to learn/try, or just don't like videogames, and that's fine, but games like this weren't designed for people like that, so go find something that is, be it tetris, animal crossing, scrabble, bunji jumping, white water rafting, chess, painting... the list goes on...

I started with MUDs, moved on to lan parties, played UO, a little EQ, a half a dozen others I won't bother naming, WoW is the only one I've gotten more than a year of enjoyment out of, and it continues to deliver.
Not saying you're wrong, I'm sure for some there's nostalgia and other factors that make going back to the roots more enjoyable, but it's not the case for me.
Then again, I can now get nostalgic about vanilla WoW, most current WoW players don't remember 40 man raids, let alone Molten Core raiding, or BRS raiding, and the game was very different back then.
"I miss the good old days where there was no battlegrounds/cross-server stuff, and we'd have a grand old time at Tarren Mill/Crossroads" type stuff.

Hehe, I wrote/recoded a mud about 10-12 years ago, quit it a couple of years later, and last I checked (a year or so ago) it was still up and running.
Good muds never die!

I started in beta, and played well into Burning Crusades, but at that point I had a family, full time job, and was pushing the envelope in hardcore raiding leading 40man raids (for the non-mmo people, that means trying to organise and manage 40 other people from all over the world via voice chat to achieve what most considered the toughest of tasks)
I was getting burned out, my wife was barely playing anymore, so I just up and quit, I'd play web games like kdice and some civilizarion over the lan with the wife, but that was about it.
Last christmas my brother-in-law remembered we 'played WoW' and bought us teh WotLK exapnsion... Well, had to at least give it a look, so now we're still playing again, however not 'hard-core' and it's still fun. Prolly be buying the next cataclysm patch (unless the brother-in-law gets it for us this christmas lol)
Then again, my step daughter played (and still would, but college taking up much of her time) but - as I just mentioned - she's at college and living on campus, so that's more free time, and it's really just a matter of managing priorities.
And even further, if you have better things to do, you're best to go do them. I just find $15 (times 2) a month is cheaper than going to the movies every weekend, and many other more expensive activities - going out to dinner, etc, and managable entertainment, economically.

No, they should make it easier for them and make them available online.
Of course, there'd need to be a signup for the account to access them, with triple password secure login, and to keep it secure, the login would only be valid for a single ip's data.
So the process would be:

1. Register to get ip details
2. wait for registration confirmation
3. log in to system
4. provide authentication of your login
5. match captcha
6. get details
7. registration gets deleted - one time use only

That would be the process to collect each ip's details.
Of course, a written request for each ip would also be required.
If they don't like the process then they could be mailed.
Each ip's details individually mailed again, of course, CoD.
And to ensure they're protected, they would have to be first class registered mail signature required.

I mean sure, if you legally have to provide them, fine, but you still need to ensure the security of the information.

It could be argued that it is reasonably prudent to think that something you can collect freely, and make available to others and charge for the convenience. Also reasonably prudent to think that looking through pretty things with binoculars is fine.
For the former, you could pick wildflowers and sell them, or collect cans for recyling, or many other similar-seeming (on one level or another) activities.
For the second, literal bird watching, views from tops of buildings, etc...
Not that I think either is or should be legal necessarily, but inject the right amount of naivety, and it's viable.
Just being argumentative/devil's advocate.

One thing I do firmly believe, however, is that noone should be expected to be the legal definition of a "Reasonably Prudent Person" which is, as I understand it:

The model of all legal behavior. This person does everything in moderation, follows the community ethic, and always exercises due care.

(correct me if I am wrong)

That sounds more like the expectations of someone living in... well, I won't name countries or regimes, but you get the idea. It also requires that person to be completly familiar and understanding fo the "community ethic" which is possibly even worse that requiring them to be well versed in the applicable laws.

RTFA, for crying out loud.
She didn't "not realise it was illegal". She didn't realise the files were being shared at all.
At least, that is the reason for the current state of the case
Truthfulness is for the jury to decide, but it didn't seem like that claim was being contested, although the article didn't go into it.

To further this: These employees can always go work somewhere else. And should this not be encouraged?
Just imagine if everyone working for the MAFIAA decided to work somewhere else, and noone wanted to take their places due to these kinds of troubles. That would be a rather large 'win' don't you think?
Sure it's highly unlikely, but as an extension of the cause and effect I think it merely justifies the actions.

I heard of some folks that thought that some Tea was worth the deaths of over 500,000 people...

Not trying to troll with my oversimplification, just pointing out that some people feel their beliefs are worth fighting for.
On this issue, I'm not informed enough to have a strong enough opinion to take any sort of drastic action, but there are many who do, and while many disagree, it's not uncomon or even unusual for people to take action for their beliefs of their rights that others consider 'heavy handed'.

No, don't send them anthrax, that wouldn't be just naughty, but flat-out wrong.
I think they just need a cookie.
However: cookies don't fit in envelopes, so just send them some flour/sugar in the envelopes, perhaps a note saying 'would you have preferred anthrax?' and they can figure the rest out themselves.

...That might be interesting...


(Yeah, this is a joke, I'm pretty sure even doing that would be illegal, so please don't mod me Insightful or Informative. Funny is OK; so is Troll)