Sure, it's illegal, but most people simply don't consider it wrong. No amount of propaganda will change this.

Why would someone download a show they have no interest in?

>The real reason the USA is fucked in terms of infrastructure is because for some reason we prefer spending money blowing up other people's roads and bridges and networks over maintaining our own.

Yep! I live in freaking Seattle, and you'd think of all places that would have FIOS, we'd be it. Nope. Comcast's cable franchise agreement with the city also somehow keeps out FIOS because it can be used to deliver tv. The problem really isn't population density, since the US has plenty of large cities with high population density. The problem is politics.

>Interesting, I'm not sure if there will be any flicks to show your kids in that situation, as there wouldn't be any industry, but yeah, lets go with that.

Right, because we all know that everyone stopped going to the movie theater years ago.

> If you don't like the DRM, don't use the product

Right. Like that's going to happen. There is literally zero incentive to buy hd content, when everything about downloading it is better/more convenient.

Well, I'm not getting blu-ray because I can already get all of the hd content online for free without any hassle whatsoever.

> Do you think that the US would reply with nukes?

No, but Israel sure as hell would.

Sure, but how many times did she have a bad feeling about something and then nothing at all happened and she forgot about it?

That's not particularly useful since all of the modern trackers inject random fake IP addresses as seeds. They are going to at least try to connect before sending a warning and any good blocklist will stop that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse

"The E3 component is very different from the other two major components of nuclear EMP. The E3 component of the pulse is a very slow pulse, lasting tens to hundreds of seconds, that is caused by the nuclear detonation heaving the Earth's magnetic field out of the way, followed by the restoration of the magnetic field to its natural place. The E3 component has similarities to a geomagnetic storm caused by a very severe solar flare. Like a geomagnetic storm, E3 can produce geomagnetically induced currents in long electrical conductors, which can then damage components such as power line transformers.
Because of the similarity between solar-induced geomagnetic storms and nuclear E3, it has become common to refer to solar-induced geomagnetic storms as "solar EMP."At ground level, however, "solar EMP" is not known to produce an E1 or E2 component."

E1 being the type of pulse that knocks out small electronics.

No, it wouldn't. Read X0563511's post one down for an explanation of why.

The difference is that this sort of thing has happened before, and not that long ago (1859).

"Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases even shocking telegraph operators. Telegraph pylons threw sparks and telegraph paper spontaneously caught fire."

The world was much less wired in 1859 than it is today. At a minimum, the power grid would be fried for months. I certainly wouldn't want to live somewhere like the Southwest part of the US, where if the power is gone you can't get water and the gas pumps stop working, so you can't go somewhere else.

A solar flare is not an EMP. It would only take out things that have long stretches of conductive material, like the power lines.

Solar flare != EMP

While the power grid would be knocked out by a massive solar flare, your electric car would be just fine. Unless it happened to be plugged in when the power grid was fried...

It's different because you can also think of encryption like a secret language that only you can decipher. If you wrote down all of your incriminating information in this secret language, there is no way the government could compel you to translate it for them since doing so would incriminate you. Sure, we can make analogies all day, but when we come right down to it, an encrypted document is a lot more like a secret language than a safe.