Ok, then your solution is? Piracy isn't going away, if its a real problem then the solution is to change the business model. Its the only solution. You cannot stop piracy. It doesn't matter how wrong, immoral, whatever you may think it is, the fact remains it is not going away.

So now what? Piracy is bad, mmkay? Thats not gonna work.

Honestly I do not think it is near the problem folks make it out to be. I know many many people with computers who cannot figure out how to pirate movies, books, mp3's, etc. They try, and get a huge pile of RAR files, and stare blankly. Or they get a "dvd" in divx format and have no idea what to do with it. We are talking a tiny portion of the media buying public who actually can and does pirate. The less tech savvy also infect themselves with trojans and malware instead of downloading some new game. How many people out there are modding their consoles to play downloaded games?

The tiny fraction of the market that can pirate will continue to do so, regardless of the measures taken against it.

By purchasing a single share, you are forcing them to print and mail you all their shareholder material, which costs far more than the profit you earn from that single share. If everyone on slashdot bought a single share, it could put a serious dent in their asses.

You have to shame the idiots buying crap from spam. If spam didn't make money, their would be no spam. Its not the spam that is the problem, its that it is a viable business model. You can't stop people from making money from something that works, and obviously works really well.

Obviously you haven't been to mardi gras lately. Nothing has change, absolutely NOTHING. Cameras have been flashing as often as girls in New Orleans for many many years.

The "lovely era" of girls flashing people in the street during Mardi Gras is more lively than ever. Last year, as often as I pulled out my camera there were untold girls turning around showing their tits, its what drunk youngins do during Mardi Gras. Pictures be damned.

I'm not even an old perv, just a tourist freaking out on the spectacle. Mardi Gras sucks, believe me, but its the puke and piss filled streets that really bring you down. Tits just do not make up for that.

Thats funny because all the CFL's I have at home have lasted for YEARS. The only one that has ever burned out is the one in my fridge, after 4 years. They have lasted far far longer than any other bulb I have ever used, with a huge savings in electricity usage.

I don't know what kind of crap CFL's you buy but the ones I have work perfectly, with vast lifespans. I just bought them at home depot or wherever.

Study up on the terrorists who founded this country then. They are at war with us, they are POW's if anything. Which means they have rights and are to be treated a certain way according to the geneva convention.

If we are at war, then who are we at war with? An enemy, which means they are POW's.

Keep calling it a war, and keep calling "them" terrorists. Words mean everything, read your Orwell.

Do you expect the people living in a country we invaded and are occupying to sit idly by?

What would you do if chinese troops marched down your street and tried to "free" you? Would you defend your friends and family in any way you could? Try to put yourself in their shoes for once.

Again, read up on the tactics used by american revolutionaries, or the underground resistance in nazi occupied europe, or the vietnam war. Its war, bad shit happens.

Or you could stop calling it a war.

As for the despicable acts committed against innocent civilians - read up on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Want to talk about bombing schools, churches and women and children?