Use that money to pay your employees.

"Not some mystery benefactor, singular. That would raise too many questions. However... stay with me here... Zombies. I got a guy who knows this guy who knows this Rain Man-type. He lives with his mother in her basement in Belarus. So good luck extraditing his fat Russian ass. Wait. He's a hacker-cracker extraordinaire. This guy can hijack random desktops all around the world, turn 'em into zombies that do his bidding. For instance, he can make it so, 20 or 30,000 little donations come in from all over the U.S. and Canada. 10, 20, 50 bucks a pop, all paid in-full, nice and neat, untraceable, from the good-hearted people of the world to Mr. Walter H. White, Cancer Saint." -- Saul Goodman, Breaking Bad, Phoenix.

Was the Judge in this case name "Constance Harm" by any chance?

You are kidding right? I'm the only person I ever met who morally cared about "stealing content." That was way back when I was young and naive. Everyone else I knew were passing around floppies or trying to hook two VCRs together to copy ET: The Extra Terrestrial, or making mix tapes off the radio for their friends.

Heck, even people I know in the music/other creative businesses do this, nobody thinks its some big sin to copy files. Nobody cares.

Here's an anecdote: I know a guy with an external hard drive full of pirated media. We got into a discussion about the public domain. I made the argument that things should become public domain after a reasonable time for the benefit of society. He made the argument that as long as someone is making a profit from it it should never become public domain.

It's this cognitive dissonance that's the problem.

Perversely, however, this makes me sardonically pleased about the copyright crackdown. How is anything ever going to change when people's personal morality is so out of whack with their public morality? Perhaps a crackdown will shake them out of their lethargy.

Hmm, does it let you update your billing information?

Try making the credit card number all 0's or just replacing some of the digits randomly. The charge will fail to go through.

I'm thinking of Tony Soprano's crew dumping asbestos off in the New Jersey wilderness.

Oh, and of Marge Simpson's pretzel business.

Should IBM be registered as the US agent of a foreign government?

Should the US government be registered as the US agent of multiple foreign governments and stateless entities?

However, Netflix is making a version that will run on Chrome OS (a Linux-based operating system ) in Chromebooks.

Just not for the rest of Linux users.

The also have a version that works on Android.

Harlan Ellison -- Pay the Writer

Oh I forgot to add an anecdote:

Once upon a time Harlan Ellison was asked to do some commentary on a DVD of one of his stories. He responded by asking how much he would be paid for this service. The person asking said "Nothing" and he responded, "What, did you think I just fell off of a turnip truck?"

Actually, for me this is very simple:

1. Do you like your job?

2. Are you making enough money to be satisfied?

If the answer to both of those questions is "yes" then doing extra work on your own time for the job merely as a value add without additional compensation is permissible. The goal in this case would be an investment in job security, rather than direct compensation.

On the other hand, unless you are desperately afraid of facing the job market, there's no reason to do extra work when you are unhappy or underpaid. What it does is set up a precedent that you'll work lots of extra hours for no compensation.

Oh, also, if this means that it will add extra work for you going forward you might want to think twice about giving it to them.

"DRM is the reason Netflix isn't available on Linux."

I hate DRM, but when Netflix tells you that's why Netflix isn't available on Linux, they are lying.

HBOGo - Available on Linux
Amazon Prime - Available on Linux
Hulu Plus - Available on Linux

On the plus side, Netflix's lies further tarnish the reputation of DRM, which is agreeable to me.

"You're wrong, kid. It's not a crime to kill an elephant. It's bigger than all that. It's a sin to kill an elephant. You understand? It's the only sin you can buy a license for and go out and commit... do you understand me? Of course you don't. I don't even understand myself."

Hacking into the Chamber of Commerce would let you know which government officials had shown themselves open to graft and bribery to sell out their constituents.

This is useful information for a foreign power to have.

Why hack the government, when you can hack the ones who really control the government?

China now has a significant amount of the world's industrial base, and all the things that go along with it. Like unions, and military might.

The US has been deindustrializing, turning into a weak nation, of weak people... a people ripe for destruction.