I don’t know exactly what is causing the problem, but when I used to be on Time Warner, we once went down for 4 days due to a DNS issue. I just modified the router settings to go to Google’s DNS servers and my problem was solved.

A few year ago a similar act was proposed in Maine but abandoned after realizing that due to Facebook’s privacy policy and ToS agreements (at the time), By the employee giving his/her password to their employer and the employer accessing the account (which violated Facebook’s ToS because the employer was not the owner of that account), if Facebook wanted to, they could file criminal charges against the employer which due to the ToS would link the employer’s action to violating the computer fraud and abuse act

The problem with stronger consumer protection laws is that the publishers can nullify them by altering their ELUA. What needs to be done is a law that forbids EULAs from trumping laws and civil rights.

Be careful what you say here or they might sue us too.

I believe Frivolous Software Patent Litigation to be a major impeder.

Companies that use such draconian DRM and treat their customer like this are one of the major causes of mass piracy of games. I believe the publisher should be held accountable in some way for causing the growth of pirated software.

These are the people the RIAA, MPAA, etc. should be focusing on and suing for the large sums of money. Not the little sharer that makes no money off downloading media.

Try to become a witness in a high profile case that will require that you be put into the witness protection program. Problem solved. No more obligation to pay $1.5 million fine.

I'd prefer to be de-rezzed like on the Tron movies

if it was creating gold from a cheap abundant element, this technology and research would be destroyed and the scientists involved, killed. Such technology would radically change the global market and such change is greatly feared and those with the power will do everything possible to prevent the change of the status quo. Legal or illegal

Ok, so gold chloride, a worthless substance, can be converted to gold. Now, how abundant or rare is gold chloride?

Things are very different now than they were pre-1710. Today, money and greed run the world. There are the few who care more about the message than the money.

If patents and copyrights were abolished, there would be little motivation to create anything. No more music, movies, TV, books...need I go on? Same with new technologies. Progress would cease.

The true purpose of copyright is to motivate the creators to continue creating in this sense. Creator creates song which is copyrighted and they profit from their creativity. Copyright expires. If Creator wants more income, use their creative mind to create more great works and copyright them. A creator’s great great grand children should not be profiting off their ancestor’s work. Because of how quickly technology changes, software copyrights should be greatly decreased. Windows XP’s copyright expires in the 2090’s. Think there will be any hardware that could run XP in the 2090s? or even in 2050? I believe software copyrights should be 20 years. Look at the market for classic games which are no longer manufactured, marketed, supported or profitable (abandonware) yet the copyright holders often continue to enforce copyright. Copyright, according to the constitution, is supposed to be limited, but it is continuously being lobbied for perpetual extensions. For instance, the Copyright Term Extension Act (aka Mickey Mouse protection act) was heavily pushed by Disney because Mickey Mouse was approaching the end of its copyright term and as 2019 approaches, you can bet that Disney will lobby for another extension of copyright

That's what happens when you allow yourself to be pressured, harassed and bullied by Hollywood. Hastily comply with their demands before checking to see if it is legal.