Mod parent down, for having a stupid username, and being ugly.

Mod parent up, for being modded down by an asshat who uses the word "troll" to mean "person I disagree with."

Mod parent up, for being modded down by an asshat with no capability for abstract thought.

Yeah. Really.

CIA WORLD FACEBOOK! Give all your friends at the NSA your RSA keys! We aren't going to hit you with this baseball bat! CIA WORLD FACEBOOK!

No. The infringement upon obvious market values is instituted by a corrupt government to provide increased revenue and offensive PR for its controlling companies. Information is free, and you are doing no crime by sharing it, rather, you're helping people.

Mmn, let's expand that example out a little. US advertises big "internet is great for PR!" program, gives internet access to impoverished countries. But wait! They paid for it, so let's not let any of these sites about how the US government is stabbing kittens show up to the people who receive the free internet! Beggars can't be choosers! But, wait! Aren't we, the customers and the taxpayers, paying for that internet access?

absolutely!

metallica needs cash!!!! metallica made 450 billion dollars last year and they still need money! so contribute to them! BUY THEIR RECORDS CAUSE THEY NEED THEIR CASH!!!!

METALLICA NEEDS MONEY AND THEY NEED CASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Ah, the ridiculous sound of the idiot laughing at his liberties being taken from him at gunpoint.

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It may be illegal, but the law is quite impotent without a means for identification and enforcement.

As long as you don't say "I downloaded it off of BitTorrent," you're fine. People don't seem to understand it's not illegal (aka, eligible for civil compensation) to DOWNLOAD songs, only "making available" is illegal. Can somebody please develop anonymous PayPal?

Let's see here. On the left hand, we have the people at Microsoft claiming to make a secure operating system, and putting escrow into the encryption such that data can be seamlessly copied from the operating system to an unknown location. We witness Microsoft as an incredibly corrupt entity, in nearly every possible way - from locking in hardware manufacturers to using Windows to throwing lawsuits at everybody who even vaguely seems to threaten them (remember Lindows?). On the right hand, we have the code of Linux, FreeBSD, etc. available for the entire world to review, figures of authority are not chosen based on how much of a jackal they are, but how much their experience is worth. OpenBSD and FreeBSD have things like in-kernel crypto, chroot jails, are actually POSIX compliant, and seem to suffer from very little bloat due to the trend to make specific utilities as discrete as possible, and hence nearly as flawless as possible. Let's just agree to disagree. Or I can just call you an idiot. I'm fine with either.

Maybe you haven't used Vista enough...