Fair enough.

On Amazon, normally as soon as you click purchase your card is charged.

I'm not disputing that, but I would like to know why. Once they have taken my payment and sent me an email thanking me for my order, how in the hell is that not acceptance of the contract?

What contract is that? You don't agree to something just by purchasing, at least if you do it doesn't trump local laws which are pretty clear about vendors having to honor prices advertised.

Not really.

You have greedy copyright holders trying to stop it.

You have the vast majority of the populating engaging in it.

You have a few smaller content creators/developers who don't know better and are against it.

Due to the sheer scale, due to the fact it's not a physical behaviour as such...it CAN'T be stopped, and is most certainly a waste of resources to try. They are not losing profits, and yet they are surely losing money from trying to combat this harmless behaviour.

That's the thing. Casual easy piracy will only increase, and can't be stopped.

There is almost no chance of that ever happening. I think you're safe.

It is impossible to stop piracy. It's a waste of effort to even try.

This is going to evolve into a completely decentralized, encrypted tool going over common ports that will be easy to use. It can never be stopped.

I know it's cliche to bring up the whole information wants to be free argument, but it applies in this case. People want to share, the last 20 years have shown that, and since that need is far more frequent than the content owners need to greedily restrict their content, it will be dominant.

You can't block the highway. The system I described couldn't be blocked. How are you going to block a completely p2p encrypted system that uses ssl over port 443?

Non technical users don't have to know the details, if the program is implemented correctly it will Just Work(TM).

Fair enough. Thanks.

And only true Scotsman wear kilts.

Maybe you shouldn't be so quick to insult people when you can't even be bothered to do a basic grammar/spell check, you illiterate douchenozzle.

I'm not a troll, you're just an idiot who jumps to conclusions.

As I said elsewhere in the thread, I align with science and use the findings of science to basically define my worldview. I don't have the time and I am out of my depth in trying to get a handle on this stuff.

I can repeat a point made showing why AGW is real, etc, but when someone has a counter-point I usually don't have a response because I don't know enough. I don't have time or any real desire to delve into all the research, so took advantage of this thread to hope for some simple explanations or references. And it paid off.

Even your pointless, needlessly insulting posts have nuggets of wisdom within. Thank you for providing that info, and fuck you for being a douche.

Cheers.

LOL. Another armchair scientist trying to sound smart..

Your explanation of Peer Review is mostly correct, but your playing with semantics. I'm not sure why you felt the need to respond to me and attack to me when my post was in reply to a different poster.

Peer reviews does not automatically make a study valid, partly *because* it does not automatically validate the conclusions of a study.Also because peer review can be very, very flawed.

Of course, you know that and just wanted to sound smart, huh?

As you've said, it's simply one step. That's it.

Nice explanation though. I hope you felt it paid off.

I don't have the expectation that people will pay me for my work before I complete it.