I'm sure your digital overlords will be proud that you, their lackey, are so faithfully following the scriptures.

Perhaps you should look up the definition of theft.

Under C11, statutory damages are now limited to $5000 for non-commercial infiringement, so there's not a lot of incentive for the rights holders to pursue litigation.

Maybe not such a crazy idea. Maybe it's time to start laying criminal charges against the sites that deliver malware

If you RTFA, that is exactly the conclusion it draws. There is a fine balance between rewarding the creators and benefiting society. I think one of the great solutions proposed (funny, because I was just discussing this exact idea with someone a couple of nights ago) is to offer the opportunity for incremental increases in copyright term FOR A FEE.

This really is a win-win situation, because the public benefit either way. If a rights holder believes that there is still enough value to hold a copyright, they can pay for it and continue to monopolize revenue generation, but even then, the public still wins because the rights holder is paying into the public coffers which (arguably) benefit everyone.

I didn't happen...yet.

No, he's suing YOU.

...as you leave them in the wrapper, but once the seal on the shrink-wrap is broken they start to decay within seconds.

and make sure you leave an extra pull string inside each run!

You must work for the government.

Those two stats are not mutually exclusive. It is quite possible for (and I'm pulling numbers out of my hat here) 80% of all fatalities caused by intoxicated drivers ALSO happened under 40MPH within a few miles of home.

In fact, your not even talking about the same groups. In one case you are talking about all injury accidents and in the other you are talking about traffic fatalities. While fatalities are certainly a subset of all injury accidents, it still only represents a portion of all injury accidents.

Saeco Super Automatic

Beans go in the top.
Water goes in the side.
Turn the knob.
Push a button:
Awesome coffee!

My wife blew a gasket when she found out how much I spent on it, but it's worth every penny (even she agrees now).

or he could just use the "hack /off" command at the DOS prompt.

What you are talking about is really just parliamentary procedure: adopt a "body of rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings and other operations of clubs, organizations, legislative bodies, and other deliberative assemblies" -Wikipedia

Most governments of the world today practice this in some form or other. You generally have the politicians who go about making the rules and the bureaucrats that are responsible for the implementation of those rules. Same goes for most corporations: Board sets policy, and the executive...well...executes it. Some do this better than others.

Your answer is in the terms of service:

The exclusive remedy against Company for any damages whatsoever to Customer arising out of or related to this Agreement shall be the refund of the fees paid by Customer to Company with respect to the then current term of this Agreement

Yeah, but then we might actually have to pay for things ourselves. Biliking large corporations from their advertisign dollars to allow users access to a service without having to undertake a monetary transaction ("free") is really the only sort of taxation we can expect these days. There will always be cons, shills and marks. As long as you accept that, then you have a pretty good chance to avoid being one of the latter.