And what are you? Some sort of anarchist, "down with the man" type? You guys make me sick. Where do you propose the government gets its money if not from the people that it governs? I bet you'd love no taxes at all. That'd be great, I'd have more money. But then good bye public services: no more police, no more firefighters, no more social security, etc. But no, of course, you have no need for that since nothing bad has ever happened to you. I hope you'll still feel safe when the government runs out of money and can no longer provide for its citizens.

Isn't getting 1/10 of that demographic to vote a HUGE improvement over previous years? I mean, I realize it's still an abysmal amount, but it's growth, right?

Because they're going after the house wife, the downloader, as if she was the original distributor of the content, as if she was the one that ripped the DVD or filmed the movie screen.

How.... DARE YOU!

One can be held in jail (not prison) before their court date.

Yeah, I am so upset that he hasn't undone Bush's eight years of work in a quarter of the time!

There's also the fact that she was a moron and didn't think about the fact that "coffee" and "hot" are best buddies.

Assuming a windows machine.

Each of those points is a separate instance. It applies if you're breaking it for 1) education uses OR 2) documentary filmmaking OR 3)noncommercial videos. How they define "noncommercial videos" is up to them, but it's not all three together, it's any of the three. If this were not the case, the word "instances" would not have been used to describe the list.

You sound a little miffed, but highschool classes are ridiculously easy enough that no one should be failing them.

For some reason it appears that my degree at my university is one of few (or the only) that accept a D grade for major courses. The rest of the degrees will not take D grades. I'm computer science, not psych or business (this is at a tech school, tool).

Yup. It's always the kids that are doing extremely well yet need to ensure, for whatever reason, that they really are getting that A that they're already guaranteed to get. That said, I'm one of those who needs extra credit and totally doesn't do it out of laziness. I will be my own demise.

That actually sounds like a pretty good place to live.

It's only trolling now that you've been caught.

IANAL, but get a lawyer?