They have the Taliban in their backyard. Their IT department has already developed a very effective "fire" wall...mainly just "fire": http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/24/008227/taliban-seizes-and-burns-pcs-cell-phones-to-stop-obscenity

Pirates terrorize incompetent executives of corporations and organizations that use antiquated business models.

...a small, obnoxious minority of people can be funded by two billionaires to do "grassroots" (racist, divisive, etc.) marketing for a movement designed to protect said billionaires. FTFY.

Welcome to the Corporate States of America! Our jurisdiction is worldwide and we have storm troopers and psychophants all over the universe! Property rights, "intellectual" or not, trump human rights by miles.

The article and the facebooks have chosen a fall guy? http://twitter.com/#!/anant_garg http://anantgarg.com/2010/02/18/cross-domain-cookies-in-safari/

Surfin' in the CSA (Corporate States of America)! Yay!

Surfin' in the CSA (Corporate States of America)!!!

Cops and criminals generally have the same psychological profile. Takes one to know one.

Ah, the Corporate States of America: it even outsources its storm trooping duties to the New Zealand police.

I would just shorten it to "the lawyers win". Innovation, competition, and the fair market lose. It's a nuclear arms race to acquire lawyers. What is this bubble? An over-litigious-society bubble? I hope it pops soon, though by then all the lawyers will have weaved golden parachutes or gotten jobs as lobbyists and politicians, right?

All I hear when an attorney talks about patents is, "but what about my yacht payments? My condo?!? My blahblabobloblaw$$$$$$$$...?!?!??"

...and continue to vote republican. /ducks /flamebait

Meanwhile, some republicans have programmed their constituents to disparage welfare and unemployment recipients as lazy folks getting something for nothing. This distracts them from yet another example of how the masters of the universe went and hoarded all the prosperity we achieved. Go figure.

It's more like a "Human Centipede" relationship.