Are you arguing against yourself?

> If I go pick up all the trash along a road, should I have the right to sue the city for the work I did without compensation? When did they get the right to have a clean street without contributing anything to me or society for having made it happen?

Except that city can not prevents itself from volunteer helping out.

Leech has distinct option of not having chain of actions that lead to him having downloaded and enjoyed something.

You example would have been right city forced you to pick up trash, torrent node would have been okay if he only distributed work which someone volunteered for distribution (gpl, creative commons...)

I would like to word this bluntly:

(Sweedish) Pirate party is founded to get good publicity for business and to ensure it stays profitable and unhindered.

That business is basically making money of displaying advertizements (along with doing things like attempting users to download browser toolbar and other things that freedom loving geeks shound not event consider) when people are searching its index which is nearly 100% composed of pirated material. Should have there been "no more downloads of pirated content", it would go bankrupt and its owners would likely have to find real work other than being just middlemen.

Add to that arrogant behavior that would end up with them being punched in face, this does not make good image of them for me.

They are getting votes of:

a) FUD Populism - various privacy e-scares and first world problems.
b) Giving people free shit and promise that it will still be free. Good old bread & games.
c) Exploting underdog effect of brave folks fighting evil big bads and rebeling against authority.

Which sums to getting votes from naive and/or young.

They are exactly same as all politicians: using political capital to enable them to get money.

Turns out that I can not be bought for few free mp3s, avis and promises that are impossible to keep. What about you?

And where did you get right to make use of his work without giving something in return to either him or society?

Breathing and being alive does not count.

While this is just a joke, one thing is dead wrong:

In any case of big emergency, you should not head to common stores or malls, but to big warehouses that are usually outside towns/cities.

Shopping malls have low supplies and require to be restocked fairly frequenctly. Most of food is low duration or requires refrigeration and you will run out of anything that can be reliably stored in few weeks (depending on amount of people who get same idea - and that amount is going to be very high).

Big warehouses will have supplies that can last you years, fairly defensibe position and loading ports for moving food to location that is even more defensible. And only people who know something about logistic of food will be going there.

Insert coin to continue in 3.. 2.. 1..

By commiting suicide, he chose to punish his family and friends instead of him.

That is terrible, monstrous and unredeemable alternative.

His choice of actions all the way from begining. Goverment court documents? Of course he was going to be showtrialed and handled as harshly as possible.

People do not bother wil programing clocks for one reason: It is pointless - if you have tons and tons of clocks elsewhere and most likely some wall mounted right in the living room, reading manual and figuring out VCRs unique (and often stupid, lazy-dev) way of setting up when is it not necessary or even helpfull.

I'd say that is pretty smart from dev pov: avoid unnecessary complexity, focus on solution (playing media), not bloat. In fact, when I think about it many thinks geeks tend to decry as stupid are actually very pragmatic and thus pretty smart.

Normal people can code, but they need to need it. They need motivation. Not pointless "set up vcr clock".

You are looking at it wrong way.

In past, short copyright made sense for publishers, because older items on their catalogue were not worth reproducing anymore anyway.

Right now, with digital they can keep selling 30 year old stuff without any issues. Only five people per year wants to hear certain song? No problem. Technically, it is not different from handling latest hit. So they would, of course, want to have as long as possible to exploit it because demand never drops to zero.

If they had to press CDs (or books or vinyls or DVDs), it would be unprofitable to make them, but now they can just give customer license and let him download from big archive which is way cheaper.

Simply put, if you have infinite stock, you need infinite time to sell it.

If you were crinimal, your nickname would be "idiot rezalas".

Police will not really work hard when investigating typical robbery. Even if homeowner saw someone, police will have rather casuall aproach because there are usually more important crimes to solve like...

Murdered family? Well, enjoy your manhunt because now you are high-priority target which made some headlines. Expect police to to a lot more thorou, dedicate more men, public call for help of witneses, check security cameras, ask cell phone operators for co-location profile of cell phones, Snitches, Bounties, Maybe short spot at news etc etc...

Just showing gun might make you improtant enough that your case will be actually investigated rather than filed. Killing someone? Con-fucking-gratulations, genius, you *really* made sure you are not getting caught, now didn't you?

Thanks for illustrating shortsigtedness of gun-people.

Order more drives. Hope for jackpot.

Solution: Make personal encryption and anonymization illegal (or allow it to exist provided that goverment gets all the keys). If you have nothing to hide and whatnot (+ terrorists) ... Plus anonymizers help evil pedos, if you run anon node, you are accessory to child abuse.

That was not so hard.

What next - steganography? Right, it is oh-so-easy to hide 4GB image of dvd movie... ...

Yay for filesharing doing its share of helping to drive war on privacy.

That is not overhead, that is normal operation.

Problem is that there are charities where leadership recieves executive-grade paychecks, get nice company car, have offices in expensive districts, etc... They are being ran as for-profit company that is doing extremelly well and can waste money.

I once recieved snail-mail letter from (unicef or doctors without borders, i do not remember which, materials had touching pictures of starving children), all neighbours recieved the same letter. It contained brochure, refilled money transfer order, leaflet, letter, all high quality prints ... it must have cost about 3$ to send this kind of stuff.

Needless to say, I was pretty disgusted. It was pretty obvious that friend of someone higher-up in that charity got pretty profitable comision. And that is not mentioning prefilled money transfer order in that mail (and snail-mail spam).

Sickening approach. I hoped it was some scammer hoping people will simply send him money without checking bank account, but it was not the case.

Just like you have cop-assisted suicide, you also have apple-assisted Streisand effect.

If you think about it, producing controversial app that you know since day 1 of development to not pass review process, is extemely cheap way to get your name on title pages.

I bet app authors would be royally pissed if it actually passed review process and appeared in app store.

This so much.

I want to obliterate certain sites from search results:

Stuff like this, for example: http://tapix/ . ru/mobile/t64340 (it is inscredible how many sites which are basically list of sequential numbers there are.)

Various newsgroup, forum and mailing list scrappers.

javadoc and opensource code mirrors.

goddamn www.roseindia . net/java/

etc... There is just too much of redundant clutter.