Like what?

Analysts are essentially idiots. She has proven herself in the past more than any of them have.

Give her time.

Those things don't tend to stand up in court, fyi.

Well, no, that's not true. TD often advertises fake prices just so they can upsell. Taking advantage of a price as advertised, even knowing it's likely to be changed isn't not playing fairly.

Can someone explain why a senator has the authority to force Uber to answer these questions?

What penalties can apply if they don't?

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.