1. Prototype PHP code written and tested in an afternoon.
2. Business case written in an afternoon (forgetting to include the profit generating point.)
3. Vulture Capitalist drinks too much at lunchtime pitch and agrees to provide $BIGNUM
4. Development of real codebase begins.
5. Vulture Capitalist sobers up and demands that the new service starts NOW!
6. Prototype code goes into production.
7. Real codebase development abandoned.

Always ask any kilt wearing Scotsmen you see, "Is anything worn under the kilt?" Laughing, they will give the classic replay, "No, It's all in perfect working order." Remember to shout across the Whispering Gallery in St Paul's Cathedral. The name is historical and fools many tourists into missing the exciting results.

The typical reaction of a bully.

Surely the real question is: How many of the people who are using pirated copies would pay for a copy if the pirated copies were not available?

This is the RIAA fallacy, presuming that all pirated copies represent lost revenue.

There is this company called "Danger".......

All he had to do was to twist the "EVIL LEVEL" knob to 11 and a portal to hell would have been opened!

As I would be paying for stolen music via a tax, surely I can't be stealing material when I copy it?

Isn't this silly idea just a blanket permission to copy music?

Isn't this well known? I've seen TV documentaries with computer animations showing the difference between a crowd at an exit and a crowd at a partially blocked exit. Against intuition, the partially blocked exit allows more people to escape in a given time.

I keep telling people, "Keep your illegal porn and plans to assassinate [insert name here] on other peoples PCs."

Let's not do anything then 'cus somebody may decide to break it.

What a pathetic world view.

Who the hell cares if the grid is down, the EMP pulse will have fried all electronics in the area anyway.

But 10% of the time it will return a false positive, so 300 people will be detained, none of whom will be terrorists. The description of the problem could be better expressed.

This is a DOS on the security services and explains why despite much propaganda automatic face recognition systems are not in use.

And when did deterrents ever stop murders or kids making copies of songs for their friends?

The big fines were intended to make professional copyright violations where some factory turns out hundreds or thousands of copies of fake product unprofitable. Using the same law to beat up some random person is disproportionate.

Seriously, I can't recall the last time I clicked on an ad.

Why does this man hate blind people? Why does he want to force the blind to rely on the limited availability of commercial and specialised works for the blind?