132 on this article and not one about Michael Jewson and his criminal behavior. No, ever single one is about how the company was stupid to trust their ISP to have backups.

This shouldn't surprise me as most Slashdotters seem to approve of the kind of act Jewson committed. I have no doubt many are envious that he was able to do it while they themselves are incapable of striking back at their former employers.

Says the person who hates America and Capitalism. Really, if you hate America and Americans so much, why don't you just fucking leave?

If you don't trust it, don't use it.

Stop demanding they make special concessions and comply with your desires so you will condescend to use their products. Don't use it, you stupid fucks, because they don't need you. You are not special and no one is forcing you to use their services. The arrogance of your "request" is appalling.

You are a self-hating fuck. If the U.S. sucks so much, why don't you leave and hate on it from somewhere else?

And you demonstrate you ability to read and then not understand what you have read. You completely fail to understand the letter of the law and the stated intent. Rather, you substitute your own desires and ignore the obvious in favor of you opinion in hopes of getting your own selfish way.

Stated bluntly, you have the morals of a 3 year old child. "I want it so it is MINE!"

We are dealing with American copyright law, not the Statute of Anne. Maybe you weren't aware of that, or maybe you are just an asshole. Either one, the effect is the same. And, just to show you exactly how stupid your comment is, in the time of the Statute of Anne, the Anne in for whom the statute is named overruled a colonial law prohibiting slavery. Therefore, I can only assume that because you wish to use the laws of the 1700s, you also want to bring back slavery.

If you don't like the length of the modern copyright as defined in the laws, you work and change the law. Oh, wait, that would mean doing something besides violating copyright law, complaining about copyright law, and liking things on Facebook.

Until you are actually willing to work to change the law, shut the fuck up, asshole.

She did not recuse herself even though she lobbied on behalf of one side? Sounds to me like she gave them built-in grounds for appeal.

The entire *purpose* of copyrights is to get works into the public domain.

No, that is not the purpose of copyright. The purpose of U.S. copyright law is set forth in the Constitution of the United States of America, Article one, Section 8:

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

Now, are you done proving your ignorance?

You only think it is not right because you will no longer be able to use their IP for free. You don't like it because you are a greedy, selfish asshole.

Shades of privacy concerns, to say nothing of jealousy on the part of established payment system companies that would love to collect such valuable information.

What the author doesn't seem to know is that credit card transactions are itemized. Even if one's bill is just a summary transaction statement, one can request and receive an itemized bill from one's credit card service that will show every item purchased. "Established payment system companies" already collect and keep on record this "valuable information". They have been doing it for as long as they have existed to investigate and prevent fraud.

I suggest you look up wire fraud.