Uh, Apple has 4 hours left to give any of their arguments. They gave her a list of 75! witness that she had to read and familiarize herself with overnight. Even apple themselves said they would only get 20 of the witnesses on the stand in 4 hours.

To recap.
4 hours
20 planned witnesses
75 objections to review.

That's straight up bullshit.
They are being unprofessional, she is simply taking them down a peg.

Should journalists understand what they write?
I mean really, what possible purpose could understanding the topic of conversation possibly contribute?

I did not realize that 8 minutes was a long time to prepare for a full grid shutdown.

Sound Exchange doesn't just collect for members, they collect royalties for non-members as well.
AKA even if you play only PD and CC licensed music, you still have to pay Sound Exchange royalties.

Ah here is the problem with your line of reasoning. ALL people live within one demographic when it comes to digital sales, that demographic is called the "Internet" Its this network that allows access to information and content from all other the world no matter where you live or who you are.
When someone finds a product they want that they feel is not priced reasonably, they have the option of getting it for free. This option may not be legal, but is available nonetheless.

You can either set your pricing so its attractive to that customer or lose the sale.
On the other hand, if that is truly not the demographic you are perusing, then following the logic inferred from your statement - Any sales lost due to piracy are not lost at all because you were never trying to sell to them in the first place and were not deprived of any manufactured goods.

"Rights" have nothing to do with market behavior. The point of the anecdote is that regardless of the legality of the procedure she had 4 options:
1. Get content now, for free, at DVD quality or higher.
2. Get content now, for free, at less to higher than DVD quality (not available)
3. Get content now, at treble cost of DVD, less than DVD quality
4. Get content later, DVD

The problem exists in that the content owner are trying to sit on content to sell it later at a higher price. zero cost reproduction makes this impossible, as the illicit market will always be there to provide the content that is being withheld. Until they shift their business model to reflect this it will continue to be a problem.

Reality seems to agree with me just fine here. My working hours have been reduced recently so I've had to live on a small amount of money. Between canned foods, low cost starches and the local farmers market I can make due on about 20 dollars a week. A CD at retail goes for 14.95 (yes this varies, but a new releases go for $15-20, while most others are around $10) That is cold hard reality that I and thousands of others deal with on a daily basis. Do not attempt to tell me its a delusion. Music is affordable to people who are making $40K+ a year or people who do not have to provide a home for themselves. A full 50% of the nation makes less than $44K. This means at current pricing nearly half of the US(western society prime example #1) can not afford to regularly buy music. Since the actual cost of reproducing music is near zero, an illicit market has sprung up to cater to those 150 million (in the US only) allowing free access to said music. More often than not, said illicit market can provide better quality, better quantity, and better selection than the legitimate market. And no law changes or legislative work will fix this, because its already illegal. Add in the fact that the industry went nearly a decade before trying to compete in the digital marketplace, allowing the illicit market place to become entrenched, and you have the current situation.

When you have to start changing laws and restricting the rights of others tell sell your product, you are no longer selling the product for what it can sell for. It also makes you the less ethical person in this situation. You have no right to make profit, you have a right to do business. If that business fails to make money because of how they do business(pricing,customer relations, etc) or makes a profit but not "enough", then you must change your business.

I'm sorry but what!? Music in western society is priced way outside its actual value. Even more so now that the Label are trying to sell you a limited use license instead of a personal copy. Remember, a music CD at retail is roughly the equivalent of a weeks worth of food.

Those hostages are alive and free today because of an agreement known as the Algiers Accords (wikipedia). Part of the aggreement that freed them stated that they could not sue Iran. If we reneged after making the accord we would forever lose the option to recover hostages through such an aggreement. This type of action is down to protect US interests and its citizens abroad.

You have that backwards, Geohot did not enable piracy and even went so far as to publicly discourage people from doing so.

Remember that Sony removed the other OS option in response to Geohot's success in de-cripling Other OS's capibilites.

I support the immediate recall of all games containing biblical samplings and verse references.
It is well known that religious references are debase and cause conflict, therefore have no place in today's games /satire