I'll make it easier for you: it's over nine thousand!

Actually, I am very happy that TFS specifically says that TR is well-known for it's past hoaxes, used as publicity stunts, so any reader should clearly take this story with a few kilograms of salt.

Bill Gates reached the same conclusion decades ago, in 1976.

Sooner than you might think :)

ditto

Remember the Blaster worm? This is its younger cousin.

And let's not forget, this is one of the first! Legal investigation is quite difficult when you're dealing with international agreements, changing laws, lack of precedents, SSL connections, privacy issues, etc. Let me see you, from the US, asking a judge in Slovenia to give you a search warrant for a person that seems to behave (well their Internet connection did) like someone who might be in control of one of the largest botnets in the world.

You should realize that atheists bring actual arguments and use logic, not a bunch of stupid excuses that have no chance of being considered logical arguments.

No, but you haven't done your homework at all. Google Chrome comes with an integrated version similar (yes, it's got a long way to go, but it's still pretty good) to Web Developer. And then there's Switchy! instead of FoxyProxy. And I wrote my own version of Redirector for Chrome. Oh, Xmarks? What's that? Google Chrome has that integrated into it, logging you in to your Google account, storing yout bookmarks on Google, etc.
Thank you for trolling Slashdot, have a nice day!

+1 Informative

But Walmart, Sony and Amazon already have competition: torrent files and magnet links already provide you with the same content and quality for free.

That's still too much! How the fuck can they justify those costs? That's five thousand times more than what the songs are actually worth. Why are they getting paid more than they can prove? They can't possibly prove that Tenenbaum spread each song to five thousand people that never paid for it! Remember, $2,25k is the cost of each song he shared, so it does not include legal fees.

That's too bad... and I really wanted to get a Blizzard account just for Starcraft. Pirated SC2 game from torrents, here I come!

Yes, it does.

That's not really a rumor. It has been previously covered by the news. I don't remember where it happened, but I am sure that it's also been linked by Slashdot a few years ago. There was a guy that failed an intelligence test because his score was too high and the police said that he was "overqualified" to be part of the force. The article also said that this was not a one-time issue, it had happened previously and nobody seems to be doing anything about it. So it's not a rumor and I won't bother to search for the articles, but if you don't believe it you can always ask Google about it.