It's all very well saying that if the content is good people will go out and buy it anyway - but once you make it legal, mainstream hardware manufacturers will come along with P2P-enabled set-top boxes which will bring convenience to the mass market, and there will be no reason for anyone to go out and buy any content. It would destroy the content creators overnight, and then we'd get no quality content.
It would destroy the content industry not the content creators. Not that artists wouldn't be affected but it will not kill the arts. And, in any cases, if protecting IP rights involves any of DRM, communication monitoring, restrictions on technological development, taxes that go mainly to companies and a handful of top (already rich) artists then I'd rather see the whole entertainment industry die.
What do we do to protect the police from rantings of ignorant bloggers who are pissed off because they got caught breaking the law in the past and can't except the results?
We do nothing. The police doesn't need protection from rantings.
It works both ways, this guy could have easily avoided whats happening to him, IF it IS a bullying session.
No bullying warrants a police raid.
I'll reserve my judgement on this until I read more from someone that owns a clue.
I assume you meant "powns a clue".
that a story on Slashdot's front page was announcement enough. And that the notice would spread faster this way, with more people likely to read it.
They must be new here.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.