They have you so well trained you don't even stop to *think* about all the real-world consequences of what you're saying. Oh sure, U.S. prosecutors should have carte blanche international access because, you know a *crime* possibly has been committed (somewhere. Oh, and "think of the children!" while we're at it).

Investigators in a criminal case want to see some emails stored on Microsoft's servers in Washington. Microsoft has resisted, on the grounds that Chinese law enforcement doesn't have jurisdiction there, but a Beijing judge ruled against them...

Not so nice when the shoe is on the other foot, is it?

I never fail to find the bravado and hubris underlying American exceptionalism... exceptional.

Land of the free... as long as you're not in one of our many many prisons ( http://nomadcapitalist.com/201... ), which has a higher per capita incarceration rate than Cuba, which is second on the list. Oh, and speaking of Cuba, there's always http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G....

Home of the brave... because you'd be pretty brave too if your military budget was larger than the nearest eight other countries combined ( http://pgpf.org/Chart-Archive/... )

Where all men are created equal... except, of course, when they're not ( http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru... ) and a man can make something from himself even if he starts out life with nothing (but probably not): http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/0... )

And where the rule of law is universal and sacrosanct... except in those cases where it's not convenient ( https://www.globalpolicy.org/u... ) and ( https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying... )

Oh well, enjoy your "freedoms".

We need crimes like internet piracy to help foment the growth of the global police state! These are real criminals who needed to be hunted down and punished to the full extent of the law (and then some) at the behest of our media moguls who help fill the political troughs. US gets to go first, but one day China and Russia would sure love a turn.

I can no longer disable ads on Slashdot. Is that right? Must have missed the memo.

Just looked it up. What a load of horeshit. Guess I'll cancel my subscription. Oh that's right, I don't have one.

Move along. Move along.

It's becuase i wuz thinking that it's so WISE you used the word "DEVOUR" in the title because MUCH LIKE A SHARK MIGHT DEVOUR A HUMAN, so too might the bandwidth of a web server be DEVOURED by excess usage by humans.

I too am shark.

Because if it was the Belgians it would have been a Luftwaffle.

Having complete strangers being able to pry into all your personal data and intercept your private communications.

Why there oughta be a law, mister. There really should.

Qatar is investing enough money to host the football world cup - a tournament that lasts one month - to fund NASA for ten years.

http://keepingscore.blogs.time...>/

What a world.

Snowden is a hero or a traitor? Discuss.

[Meanwhile pay no attention to the men in black dungarees quietly moving the governmental surveillance apparatus to an undisclosed location.]