Almost everyone doesn't see themselves as the bad guy. They do bad things because in one way or an other they feel justified to do it. They will find a religious text/Constitution/legal prescience that reinforces their belief, even if it explained otherwise later on.

Now legal systems are meant to objectively look at the situation and determine if they were really justified or they were just convincing themselves to get what they want.

The biggest difference between Dial Up and Broadband. Is the following
With Dial Up the Telephone line infrastructure is already there and sent to every last mile. So everyone has access to the Telephone line. Until Recently all the infrastructure was put in by Ma-Bell which was a highly regulated by the government monopoly. So they were forced to put lines in every home even if it wasn't to their best self interests. So the infrastructure is there and it exists.
Now the dialup ISP's are not in the infrastructure business but in internet service(s) so they paid for the high speed backbone and the telephone lines to meet customer demand. But the customer had to pay someone else for phone service and the ISP for internet Service, You were just as stuck today with phone service as you are with broadband. however you had a bunch of ISP to choose from. If you paid more you may have more services (your own IP address, more available lines so less busy signals, or you can get a cheap service with just the connection and that's it. So you had some real choice.

Broadband companies you buy the infrastructure and the services in one big block. If your area only has Comcast you are stuck with Comcast, if they don't want to give you a connection you will not have access at all. So you are doubly stuck.

Why?
A phone or laptop physical presence of raw material is only a few dollars, but still even that why is material worth any money at all, you just need to dig into the ground and get it.

So this stuff cost money because of shifting of data and legal rights.
You need to have someone agree to dig in their property to mine for the materials. You will need for people agree to do the labor of mining the stuff. you will need to people to agree to forge the material into a more useful method... All the value in a physical device is about license agreements of people will do the work for money that they will be able to trade with others.

Music isn't free to produce either. The musician has expenses that needs to be paid for, the data needs to be recorded edited produced... So a lot of people need to get paid for this as well.

You can tout that the record companies are making disproportional money... But people are paying the price, so complaining about that isn't the issue. A piece of digital data is valuable as a piece of equipment.

The real issues comes down to the fact that Supply and Demand. Digital Data can be copied exactly so cheaply that the Supply is nearly infinite, causing the actual price to go below the cost of creating it. So the companies try to put these barriers to limit supply as keep this data to be sustainable.

The key problem is most business run into their own insecurities.
They are afraid of picking the uncool system that in 5 years would be scoffed at.
Such as creating a new web app in Perl, nothing technically wrong but it isn't cool anymore.
It's the no one has gotten fired for choosing IBM. It is more about picking the name that suppose to impress your customers. Not what is best for the job.

Sure...
As we all know a Fraction where the numerator and denominator are equal is equal to one.

All fractions with a numerator of 0 is 0

So the Fraction of 0/0 is both 0 and 1. so 0 = 1 QED.

This is the reason why we can't have anything nice. Is because their are too many jerks out there who will use a new technology as a way to do illegal activities!

$50 To sell isn't really that great of an investment.

Now if these games cost $20.00 back in 1983, then you will not be making any money due to inflation.

In some ways it makes sense to have the adds with the same time. That way you don't see the differences in the the cutting, or reusing old footage without having to be spotted about it.

You have been playing a bit too much Kings Quest IV

The big problem with today's mobile devices, is that they are so locked down that it is nearly impossible (Sure it can be done, but it is tough) to install a new OS on it, or worse have backup media to restore it back to factory condition if you happened to prefer Windows over Linux for tablet usage.
Unlike a PC where you plug in a USB Stick or a CD/DVD if you sill have one of those and when it is booting you can hit Esc, F1, F2, Del.... Whatever to bring you into the BIOS and say boot from this drive instead, you will need to find an alternative way of fighting the OS security to get a new OS on.

However your TCP/IP packets can have encrypted data... but it also needs to have unecrypted the host and destination information.
Unless you are encrypting via a proxy server or port forwarding over ssh. For the most part when you connect to Netflix your ISP can say oh this data is from netflix lets slow this down.

For all those who were thinking that.
Did you get into science from smarts alone, or was it from a lot of work?
Sure science came easy to me, but I was interested in it before hand and spent a lot of time outside of formal class leading science. So when I took the classes they were an easy A. But it wasn't about me being Smarter then the others but the fact I have invested more time into it.

The part that really gets me is the fact that this was testing the experimental design.
With a new design there is a period of getting the kinks out. Yes unfortunately this caused the life a pilot. However that is one risks that an experimental pilot takes for his job.

Now after the investigation, I would expect that there will be something that can be fixed to prevent such a problem again. You build an other better design ship you test it out, hopefully this will not cause any lives, but I expect there will still be more glitches to fix on it.

It is part of the process.

I have seen a lot of sharp people working in factories.
They are smart people, they are just not ambitious.

Getting a College Degree/Certificates/Licences etc... Isn't about intelligence it is about doing the work. Now a lot of this work is not fun or enjoyable. So the people who get these accreditation get it from their own personal ambition, not from actual intelligence.

Sure there is a set of people who have significantly below intelligence who are unable to do work that requires brain power. But people with 1 Sigma below average and all above average, in general can be prepared for jobs that doesn't require shift work.