You misunderstand the nature of "Intellectual Property" rights. It is not a "natural right" (such as the the right to bodily integrity). It is an artificial state-granted monopoly. And it's purpose is not to grant control over a person's work because they have a property claim to it. The US's IP regime exists to incentivize people to produce, because it benefits the public good. You appear to have some conception that producer's have an innate right to rigorous control over their work. This isn't how things work (at least in the US), and if you push on some of your assumptions, you will see how your system would lead to some absurd results.

Exactly. I had never even heard of this movie before Nintendo's legal action made this a newsworthy story. This free publicity will actually ensure that MORE people become aware of the movie and see it. So, if that was Nintendo's true purpose, then this didn't really accomplish anything. The film producer's won't make any profit off of bittorrent downloads, so if Nintendo's goals was to prevent people from profitting off of their Intellectual Property, than this may accomplish that.

As a final word, that statement from the producers is NOT genuine. It reeks of of a forced statement that Nintendo's lawyers forced him to make at "gunpoint" (ballpoint?) to stave off community outrage.

This is going to make users accustomed to entering their paypal credentials into all sorts of unique interfaces, on a variety of websites. It is going to condition users to be less guarded about their paypal credentials. As it stands now, you basically only enter your PayPal credentials into either the PayPal.com or Ebay.com domains. Users know that if anywhere else asks for their credentials, that it is a phishing site. I think this is going to be a minor disaster for PayPal. But hey, maybe they're cash-flush enough to eat the cost of all the new fraud claims that are going to result.

May a person petition the Federal court system to enjoin a state law enforcement official from prosecuting or threatening to prosecute a citizen of that state? Yes.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/31/215247

As a side note, your legal analysis completely missed the point, and you should have kept it to yourself.

Sigh, mis-posted in the wrong thread =(

The design schematics for all the hardware and experiments from LHC are publicly available. By perusing the design schematics a talented amateur found a fundamental flaw that hundreds of experts spending millions of dollars missed.