I'd guess there are already laws (and liability) for using non-certified parts in critical areas.

There was a contractor who was making highway guard rails who decided to go cheap and changed the design without permission linky and another case linky

Knock offs INCREASE the market for collectables. Take the fashion industry as a perfect example - and they don't have any copyright/patent protections. People buy knock offs until they can afford the real thing.

Perhaps they do. They also aren't a good measure of the entire market.

How many people prided themselves on how many albums or CDs or DVDs they had? How many of them now just use Netflix and Pandora/Spotify/etc.?

We craved having lots of media because there wasn't a way to easily get it otherwise. Now, nobody has to buy (or copy) 1000s of sources to be able to consume those sources.

This is what a 'disruptive technology' does. The 'market' changes as it becomes easier and cheaper to produce 'almost as good' stuff. If I'm changing $10 for something, a significant portion of my customers are only paying $10 because they have no other choice. If someone else starts producing what I make for $5...it's simply the market changing and I have to adapt or pretend the market hasn't changed and sue everyone (while spending even more money on not making my product).

First, any argument made by AT&T or Verizon or Comcast is just a wee bit suspect given their clear biased position in these matters.

Title II, deals with the fact that monopoly status exists in certain markets and thus Title II is needed to regulate that monopoly.

How many natural gas pipelines do you want into your house? How many breaker panels for multiple electric companies providing you service?

These are natural monopolies where regulation is necessary to manage the market. More actual utilities are being moved to separate infrastructure companies and supply provider companies.

Wheeler's proposals don't go far enough, but they are a step towards the right solution.

On the contrary, apparently AT&T is fully on board with complete Title II provisions and are providing explicit examples of why we need Title II...and frankly splitting up every ISP into actual ISP companies and what the fuck ever else they want to be companies.

indeed. Will it 'run' without 90% of the 'stuff' in it? Probably if you wrote it that way. "Maintaining" that pile of crap would then quickly become unworkable and then it doesn't 'run' anymore.

I'm not big on scaffolding to extremes but designs call for standard stuff that isn't truly 'functional' but is nonetheless 'required' for reasonably working applications.

Simply require all power sources to clean up their waste products of construction AND operation...and renewable because the cheapest option out there. Not cheap certainly, but Coal and Oil are only cheap because we aren't cleaning up their waste products.

That bill will come due though...

Exactly. The issues with renewables aren't production, it's storage from production until it's needed. It's why nuclear is simply an absolute necessity in terms of Climate Change mitigation.

'torrenting' is most definitely illegal - because you are 'uploading' instead of just downloading via a direct link.

Did you really just ask if he'd RTFB...in the land of never RTFA? :)

This is where your concept falters. These weren't laws for the public safety. They were abusing such laws to make money. So egregiously in fact that the police department in Waldo was literally disbanded by the state for their flagrant violations.

his point is towns like Hampton, FL or Waldo, FL.

Towns that literally re-drew their jurisdictions to cover a slice of a high volume highway and set about becoming the one of the worst speed traps in the US. Look at the maps. Hampton literally is a square with one long sliver out to the highway. Only one reason to have that.

Since most states now have 'move over' laws requiring you to give a lane of clearance to police and emergency personnel...this is provably making police SAFER. We're trying to get people to follow the law - both the speed law and the safety law.

That the this attack on waze came under the false pretense of 'officer safety is the height of hypocrisy

Well it does get people to slow down too. :) And also, warning people about speed traps is free speech according to the legal system linky