I imagine this would be reserved for people dumping tons of toxic chemicals into the local water supply on a daily basis. Provided the right person is prosecuted and not some joe schmoe that was thrown under the bus, I like this idea. I'd like it even more if it was extended to senoir bank employees and politicians in equal measure.

Thomas Young is going to be looking for a new job REAL soon. He needs to get with the program. Honesty has no place in political hearings.

A finished house is instantly worth money while creative endeavours are often not. Maybe for big corporations there are instant profits to be made but a band or artist that spends 10+ years developing a following and perfecting their artform will often be working for nothing in the hope that eventually it will all pay off. Copyright is abused by Big Media but Copyright is also the only thing that stops Big Media from exploiting independent artists.

5 years is probably too short. While I hate copyright, it also prevents mega corps from co-opting people's creations and selling it back to us/using it to sell their products and services. They already do this to a certain extent but could you imagine how awful it would be if they had free reign to do anything they wanted with everything after 5 years?

Imagine you wrote a song, filmed a short video or created this amazing illustration and 5 years later it was used by corporations to sell everything from toothpaste to cars. How would you feel about that?

Copyright law cuts both ways. While it's often controlled and exploited by the mega-corps it's also the only line of defense independent artists have against those same mega-corps.

There's actually a lot of room for improvement with email. It's one of the more clunky and archaic parts of the web and I'm really glad Google keeps pushing the boundaries on this as they seem to be the only ones doing so effectively. I personally have a hard time keeping my email organized and sorted so any attempts to improve email clients are welcome in my books. Even if the changes aren't necessarily better, trying new approaches and getting feedback on those changes will create an overall better product.

If you want a static and unchanging email experience you might be better served with Outlook. At my job we just switched from Corporate Gmail to Outlook after 6 years and Outlook has hardly changed since I last used it. It's downright ancient!

For years I've been hearing about how tablets and phones are going to eat the Nintendo's handhelds for lunch. I got my first smartphone 6 months ago (yes I'm a little late to the party) and I was suprised by how horrible mobile games are. I've tried a bunch (Simpson's Tapped Out, Super MAMC, Angry Birds Star Wars, Pudding Monster and TripleTown) and all of them either feel like Flash games from the 90's or Facebook games that want to nickle and dime you for everything.

It's great that Google has a "Google Play Games" service coming out but what's the point when the games themselves aren't worth playing?

For professionals, Photoshop is essentially a tax write off. There's no point in not getting it, especially when Photoshop can be essential to your workflow. What really interests me is Photoshop standalone's price of $20/month. That just might be cheap enough for your average "degenerate pirate" to afford Photoshop.

Obviously a $10 to $15/month price point would be much more appealing but it's very much affordable and considering nothing else is even in the same league is Photoshop I can see people paying for it. I'm even considering the purchase despite having a free copy of Photoshop CS6 from work.

If adults don't go to the cinema in sufficient numbers to matter, how did a R rated film like Django Unchained make $400 million? I'd say that's a pretty good pay day for any film maker. I agree with most of what your saying but your impression of cinema is a little out of touch.

I got a migrain just trying to figure out what you were not trying to say while simultaneously trying to say something.

The music industry is more fragmented these days. There's something for everyone out there; you just need to do a little more digging because the mainstream acts are polished productions that are as much marketing as music.

If you think things were better back in the day then that's probably because you're a grumpy old man or you just aren't into music anymore.

This a thousand times.

I love Bandcamp and Top Shelf Records. Bandcamp is the first music platform that actually suits my needs and gives me all kinds of music to listen to with no strings attached. If I find myself listening to an album a lot, I purchase it just for the sake of convenience. Being able to download the album in any format I choose is also handy because I can download a FLAC version to play on my computer and a more compressed MP3 version to play on my phone.

I've actually been so happy with Top Shelf Records' offerings that I recently orderd a vinyl record from them. In the confirmation email for the purchase, they included a Bandcamp download code for the album. I cannot say enough good things about this company. This is the way a record company should treat customers; with respect rather than lawsuits.

I've been using Open Office / Libre Office for at least 5 years now. It does more than I would ever need it to. Honestly... it has too much. So I don't see how there's even a market anymore for Microsoft Office, cloud or not.

As a web designer, I'm not sure I understand your gripe about HTML/CSS being a horrible tool to design user interfaces. Typically I design my interface in Photoshop and then create it using HTML/CSS, which is suprisingly good at this sort of thing and only getting better. I've designed things on multiple platforms in the past and I prefer the HTML/CSS method.