You can't compare bandwidth which is 100% recycled electrons to electricity or gas which is a finite resource subject to the pricing of the open market.

Electricity doesn't have anything remotely like Moore's Law - whereas bandwidth availability will most probably continue to expand in line with moore's law.

The statement by the Verizon CTO is just him thinking of ways to squeeze more money out of his customers.

I can absolutely guarantee you that almost all Sony consumer products run some sort of embedded Linux - from their flat screen TV's to their digital cameras.

What is to stop the Iranian government setting up a plethora of TOR nodes and inspecting and tracing everything back to the source? I understand there are alot of different levels to a TOR connection (hence the 'O'nion) - but could the 'bad guys' setting up thousands of TOR nodes around the world help them trace back to the originator?

I still use floppy disks you insensitive clod!

Actually - all SONY products with an embedded OS run Linux. Even the TV's, and most of the cameras. How do I know? Because I know! :-)

My father-in-law owned a gas/petrol station. He was always running out of gas!

Who said anything about cracked or pirate games? This is about installing homebrew and open source software on a hardware platform which has been paid for by the consumer who bought it - and Nintendo are not selling Wii's at a loss like Sony's PS3.