I think entertainment producers will one day be paid in advance for proposed entertainment in a kickstarter fashion. They will leverage whatever following they have based on their past performances. The more popular, although not necessarily best, themes will be capable of demanding the most.

In some ways I wish the 'artificial scarcity' rights holders would win and no one unauthorized could see their content or use their software, I already don't. I could care less about the movies and music being produced in recent years, but then again I play music and have an imagination for those other times.. when that isn't enough, I try to learn new things to help fuel my imagination. I can't even understand how someone would waste the time it takes to find this content illegaly, risk getting their computers infected with hacked software, sorting through entertainment that might be fuzzy or have bad sound... or even taking the legal risk of being harassed by the rights holders. I've already quit playing most games or certain OSes due to the hassle of legitimate ownership and I have a personal belief that they only use these overly restrictive methods of requiring you to enter cd keys and switch cds in and out for 'authorization', requiring internet access, regristration, etc. would occur no matter what because of the psychological implications that these cloak and dagger procedures cause your perception of the value of their product to escalate. Good riddance to all of their manipulative bullshit if they can't make money anymore.

Youtube! Youtube, youtube youtube... youtube? Youtube youtube youtube youtube.

This is a nice thought but independent authors will never be able to compete legally and that's a shame.

Not transferrable and owned by an actual person, that would be interesting.

On the surface reddit seems noisy and digg-like but there is more to it. Whatever is popular at any given moment is rife with memes, jokes, bickering... but off on the side you can find people having meaningful exchanges in related subreddits. It is as if the popularity of anything at a given moment behaves as a magnetic diversion, like feeding sick livestock to piranhas to keep them at bay. Also, they have regional subcategories where people can practice being civil or various SIG's which provide some potential beyond posturing for discussion. Slashdot needs to get with the times, I mean, where is slashdotgonewild, etc.?

"On Democratic message boards...", guess what.. Democratic message boards, republican message boards, etc. are inhabited by irrational people who simply root for their team; they're like sports fanatics. Consider a democratic or republican core value and then locate some people who are discussing actionable solutions that don't involve convincing some nebulous opposition to admit that they're wrong and you're right and instead doing something to improve the quality of life for other people. Now what percentage of them think everything was Bush's fault and Obama can do no wrong or vice versa?

Actually they're contributing to their own kernel which happens to be linux. They can't just stop contributing unless they're happy with the kernel and it's natural pace of development. They get paid for their contributions by not having to wait around for drivers.

Lots of things are addictive. Coffee, cigarettes, alcohol, internets, gambling, video games..

It should be legal so that the FDA can check it for mold and pesticides. It should be produced locally so we can go after the real criminals selling low grade stuff processed by underpaid labor. Those taxes could fund addiction centers or some such.

Maybe they already have a million people enforcing various things for certain people but who need an acceptable label more in tune with western values. So now China will have copyright reminderers, free speech zones, ministries of peace, insurance orginizations. Next they will have a million lawyers.

The machine replaces someone day after day day. The salesman, writer, etc. has to sell another machine.. it's not like they all get to retire while the machine is workinng. Can't explain that.

They can do more than one thing at a time on the internet or more people can use at once.

apparantly not if some women can see in UV

Moderation is overrated. Anything over a 3 is just bad jokes and hyperbole.

Your last 10 not-even-particularly-inflammatory comments (perhaps more) all have a 0 score. What causes that?