the new Harry Potter just came out, it will be back to normal about 2 months after the dvd is released, untill then it will be an "epidemic of piracy" for the film industry. FUN FACT: My downloading went down by %100 after I saw Avatar...that literally killed my faith in movies and the industry. I rather watch paint dry, the outcome isn't always obvious from the first 10 minutes and has a better plot than anything released in the past 10 years...in my opinion that is.

Being a musician who plays live and has attempted to submit music to the industry I know exactly what makes a hit song. It's called pop. Pop music is the same regardless of what music you apply it to. It fallows the 3 chord formula. Use only 3 chords because it is easy to process. More people listen to Lady Gaga than Dream Theater because Gaga songs are all written using the pop formula. Dream Theater is a progressive band who uses the entire spectrum of notes, styles, and has a tendency to write songs that last for 28 minutes...most people who listen to pop listen to 1 song until they are bored with it, then they go to the next song. And said song is only 3 minutes long.... Chorus, lyrics, bridge, chorus, lyrics, bridge, chorus, (solo optional) chorus. This is the formula for metal bands wanting to be on the Jagermeister Tour. Your music must conform to a formula in order to be considered. Minimum of 3 chorus parts per song. Go back thru your fav music and count the chorus parts (usually the song will start with the chorus riff but does not count because of the lack of lyrics) if you hear it 3 times...you got pop on your hands and you need to listen to a wider range of music, there is always better out there. Now...this formula has not been around forever, it is just in recent times this has come to pass, but the record industry has always tried to find ways to sucker people into their wallets. Like any other business they have schemes and plans to wrestle your hard earned dollar (unless your a kid in which case get a job you lazy leech) from your hands.

"So everyone and anyone who has contributed anything at all in the development of the internet falls into the sole category of "hacker"?" The hacking of phone lines using a whistle led to the development of the internet, it's architecture came from a HACKER!!!! ...but because you fail to understand what hacking is I would never expect you to understand that point I was making. Simple people like you are the ones who place the stigma on reverse engineers,...hackers. People who know more that u ever will, can do more than you ever will....and no, I am not a hacker, but I give real credit where it is due. Hacking is what pushed tech to become better, faster and more secure. But you can't see that, you apparently are not smart enough to put 2 and 2 together. You just harp on the same old rhetoric that old people with no clue cling to. They are criminals? According to you yea, even tho the keyboard your typing on was developed by people who took a type writer and made it what it is today...but I'm positive you never stopped to thank the people who invented the type writer...which had to be hacked down to manageable size..because before that it was manual type set...I can pull plenty of examples of products that would still be unmanageable and unaffordable to people had it not been for someone who HACKED it open and discovered it's flaws. But like I said before hand...I am explaining all of this to someone unable to comprehend what revers engineering means in the first place...so in essence I just wasted my life trying to explain the most simple of understanding to a simpleton....

Hackers created the ability to post on the internet...how you may ask? They INVENTED the internet, it wasn't christian conservatives, business tycoons, government officials.....it was hackers...worthless, criminal, degenerate people who deserve to be in jail because they possess a level of intelligence you will never have. If you feel like they impede on your safety understand you are in their territory, they know the net better than you ever will, they understand the technology that runs the servers because they wrote it. You are in their house..not the other way around. They have access to everything in virtual space, Lulsec has proven that in absolute. The laws created to "govern" the internet was written by business men, politicians...people who couldn't set up an email for themselves yet they try and dictate behavior of nerds who actually run the system. If you put your baby in the middle of a 6 lane highway during rush hour and it gets run over there in no one else to blame but you, it is an obvious danger, the situation shows no sign of security. If you put all your personal and financial info into a system that is obviously open to certain people there is no one else to blame but you, there is nothing about the internet that is safe or secure, not even the government systems are safe from people who are more intelligent that the people who "secure" said systems. This is a war of intellect...and hackers will always win

you are correct, it's been a long few days...

It has nothing to do with "the landscape" and everything to do with the "royalties" paid to a group of people who are not wanting to work for a living. People who try to use ascetics as an excuse for anything should never be taken seriously. They don't want a power source that doesn't pay them cash, what benefit would they gain from a clean renewable power source. Keep the drills running, keep poisoning the ground water and slowly killing the environment thru toxic revenge. It will keep the place "LOOKING" like a nice place when in fact it's a shit hole with a glitter coating.

I will laugh when Lulz turns out to be a group of 12yo kids from japan

no health care, yea, that's a deal breaker for me....well, that and the fact I can't code to save my own life.....

"Where did I say that drugs are the only reason people attack one another? Oh I didn't." You did, just because your brother in law died from a drug related murder you are implying that ALL people on drugs attack people, you don't have to say it directly. "I don't go around looking for an excuse to mention my brother-in-law." So WHY did you bring it up? Because you are looking for sympathy to your point of view. "That way you can have your vice and tell yourself that there isn't really any consequences to your beliefs. No need to get your hands dirty. " Just like you are doing now. Your vice is believing your always right. And that whole "Now I just feel sorry for you. Grasping at straws just prove me wrong." is just pathetic. No one has taken any time to defend you in this, you are alone in your ignorance. The other person made a completely fictional based comment but you, you had to drag someone who has nothing to do with Bitcoins into an argument over drugs. I kinda feel bad for your brother in law..at least he doesn't have to listen to your lame shit....

you USED your brother in laws death to further boost your ego, just so you can "prove" someone else is wrong. If it's YOUR business why did you post it in a PUBLIC FORUM? You didn't give a specific answer you used someones misfortune to further back your own ideals. I can judge you all I want, this is a free country after all, and your ignorant reply does not entitle you to any form of protection from ridicule. Complain all you want, still doesn't change the fact your little story is only 1 example of an event that happens every 30 seconds on this planet. People die, drugs or not, the previous person may be wrong in his statement, but you are equally wrong for your implication that drugs are the only reason people attack one another.

fight fire with fire...everything burns....nothing is left.....way to go, keeping the world in an ever present state of lies, deception, and a totalitarian government

many are murdered by people who are 100% sober, trying to use the death of someone else to back your point of view is in all reality a pathetic attempt to get a one up one someone else. If you really cared about your brother in law you would NEVER use his passing as a tool in an argument...

the term "kicking water up hill" comes to mind.

Really, 30 years from start to finish? Why? Are they using that new contraption they came out with last year? The shovel they call it, will revolutionize the way we build. But seriously....30 years......