No. What's needed is threatening, bombing and invading foreign countries.

Any patriot worth his/her salt knows that.

American authorities reportedly refused an Air France flight from Paris to Mexico entry into US airspace because a left-wing journalist writing a book on the CIA was on board.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5217186/US-authorites-divert-Air-France-flight-carrying-no-fly-journalist-to-Mexico.html

There is excessive paranoia going on. Face it!

This is theater.

First of all, this is the lowest court. That is, it's pretty much a layman's verdict. The case will go up to a higher court to finally end up in the highest court. I personally don't believe the verdict will be upheld (at least not the ridiculous jail sentence.

The Swedish government is currently using terrorism. They're trying to scare people, and this verdict is just part of the game; i.e: mere theater.

Economics isn't an exact science. There's a school of thought that argues quite the opposite. The most vocal of heterodox economist being Ha-Joon Chang.

Why would anyone use their geo-restricted binaries when open-source Despotify is out there?

And the same goes for systems that encourage doing nothing at all very strongly, not showing the consequences of refusing to go to war when confronted with certain situations.

Are you implying that bombing and invading Iraq was justified?

The number of i2p routers boomed since the introduction of IPRED. You need to be on the i2p network to view the stats link though.

http://stats.i2p/cgi-bin/total_routers_month.cgi

Just because they didn't succeed, doesn't mean they didn't try.

I understand the obvious difference between killing somebody in immediate self-defense, and doing the same just because you can. I wasn't defending Hussein in any way. Just saying that "inside his own country's borders" and "to his own people" is a silly argument coming from the same Americans who financed the gratuitous war on Iraq. I'm saying, Kurds (you know, the ones that got gassed) are still trying to get their own country, but you never hear a peep from the establishment in Washington about Turkey cracking down on them.

If my brother punches me, it's very different from some douchebag who doesn't even live in the same town, and who then claims it's in my best interests while setting up camp in my backyard.

Indeed. Here's a video: http://www.cnetfrance.fr/news/internet/loi-hadopi-rejet-assemblee-nationale-39391608.htm?xtor=RSS-2

You mean the made-up country that imperialistic powers set up to protect their oil companies' interests? The one where women couldn't vote until a couple of years ago? Where a religious cast detains all the power?

How exactly is that better than a secular egalitarian Iraq ruled by a dictator? Or are you one of those who believe the Kuwaiti Incubator Baby Hoax?

Why is this "inside his own country's borders" relevant? Are the deaths due to Iraq's invasion of Iran somehow less outrageous? Are the deaths due to the US invasion of Iraq more excusable?

I agree with the "screw Saddam" sentiment, but please refrain from relaying blatant propaganda.

Dear USA,

Please keep your "help" to yourself.

Sincerly,

Signed: The Rest of the World

I have to admit that I stopped downloading my favorite TV shows on April 1st. The legislation scared quite a few people, and we're adopting a wait-and-see policy. But plenty of people I talked to didn't change their habits when it comes to bittorrent. Being in a student dorm, every room's got its own internet connection. I approached my "koriddor-mates", and they were split on the issue. Then, I proposed getting rid of our connections to keep just one for the entire floor. We can then share it (it's a 100Mb line), absorb the cost of a VPN (it's not much, but you know how every penny counts for students) and save plenty. Whose loss is it? The ISP who's going to lose five customers!

Maybe. If you're willing to concede that Apple started that whole "in-your-face logo" crap.