So as someone more informed than the average slashdotter or wikipedian, what's your opinion? Should they be posted on wikipedia, or not?

Nice. I think this is your worst analogy yet! :)

At least wait for a few rebuttle comments before jumping on this troll's bandwagon. Talk about your knee-jerk reactions.

What I would like to know is what is going through the mind of the jury? Who are these people who seem to think that copyright infringement is serious enough to ruin this woman's life over? They don't have children or grandchildren who download or upload music to other people? My experience with infringing copyright began when I was in elementary school and would make my own mix tapes. I would either use a double deck tape player to copy specific songs from other collections or I would stay next to the radio to quickly press the 'unpause' button when a song I liked came on. Sometimes I would *gasp* give copies of the tapes to my friends. Did they never do that? How did the RIAA find all those humorless technologically impaired corporate drones and get them all on the same jury. Seriously: What the hell?

Wow. I feel so inadequate after reading that. Where do I turn in my geek card?

Old age is a feature, not a bug. With less turn-over it would be difficult to life as a whole to adapt to changing environment.

You make it sound like drm.

DRM is a feature, not a bug. Without it it would be difficult for content industries as a whole to adapt to changing environment.

The United States is NOT a Democracy. We are a Republic.

I thought we were an autonomous collective.

You probably should have continued to the next paragraph, too:

However, we can't confirm that coverage is in effect in all those states today. Also, some soft-tone coverage is limited, in time or other respects. For example, according to the NANCE report, emergency service in Oklahoma is mandated for only 30 days following the suspension of service. In Ohio, the period is only 14 days.

There was only one instance of each method even attempted, as far as I can determine. Both of them were foiled. Were there any successful attacks using those two methods prior to the implementation of the shoe removal and no liquids security measures? Have they caught anyone even trying? If not, then the current practice of having passengers remove their shoes and the banning of plum jam are unnecessary.

It could be a real problem if your band's name is Drinkspit.com or the like.

I canceled DirecTV a month ago. I get my tv through eztv.it and Torrent Episode Downloader (TED). I have two XBOX's (original, not 360) that I've loaded XBMC onto. I get movies through thepiratebay and Netflix. I don't have the fastest internet speed in the world, just 1.5mb, but it seems to work just fine for everything I want to do.

Before I got rid of Dtv, I had paired it with ReplayTV, which we loved. We watched a reasonable mix of live and recorded tv. I might still be with Dtv and replaytv if replaytv had been allowed to continue to innovate and hadn't been litigated out of existence. I just couldn't stand the picture anymore from the replay on the new tv, couldn't bring myself to getting dtv's comparatively crippled dvr, and building two dvr's using Mythtv or whatever was just too expensive and too much trouble.

(who are among the heaviest readers)

You're looking at my gut, aren't you!? Hey! I'm working on it, ok?!

Child porn laws should exist as a way to keep adults from hurting children. Not to give adults yet another way they can hurt kids. This whole thing is moronic in the extreme.

Those people are homosexual, not exactly the kind of people you want working for you if you're looking for smart people...
Those people are black, not exactly the kind of people you want working for you if you're looking for smart people...
Those people are women, not exactly the kind of people you want working for you if you're looking for smart people...
Those people are athiests, not exactly the kind of people you want working for you if you're looking for smart people...
Those people are Jewish, not exactly the kind of people you want working for you if you're looking for smart people...
Those people are Swedes, not exactly the kind of people you want working for you if you're looking for smart people...

Have you ever considered that your opinions may be considered bigoted?