The judges should be locked up for at least 20 years. When an individual picks up the mantel of public protector the laws that govern them should be much harsher than for normal citizens; they are given authority over us "normal" people and should be punished in the harshest manner if they abuse that trust. The same goes for pigs, soldiers, etc.

Comcast already lost my business back in the throttling days. Luckily, I live in an urban center where there are choices for cable internet. Of course, each apartment building is usually only wired for one company's cable; this meant that when I was looking for an apt I had to find out what company it was wired for and weed out all the comcast ones. Really cut down my options, because comcast is the main provider around here. It was worth it though for RCN, who have publicly stated that they won't work with the RIAA or block/throttle/inhibit/cap downloads.

In most small cities and towns though there is only one provider. My friend, for example, has only one choice: Comcast. So he has to use that if he wants good internet speed.

It's pretty crazy to be running keygens on your system. Every time I do it, I think to myself "what are these guys getting for all their hard work?" The same thing with cracked software - you run an installer yourself how could the cracker pass up that type opportunity? I just assume most of them infect your computer with some spyware and trojans.