And yet, somehow the networks still don't get it... Look at the international release delays, among other things...

We got there a long time ago. Content companies are still figuring it out.

It is also about watching whatever you want, whenever you want. Not just Thursdays at 9:00... People no longer want to schedule their lives around the broadcast schedule.

There are 10 kinds of people in this world; Those that know binary and those that don't.

And the marketing idiots that came up with that crap are firmly in the "don't" group!

Also look at the father of pfSense, m0n0wall. Leaner, so it can run on lighter hardware.

It could... The free market gave is Bell Labs and Xerox PARC. But it required an openness and lack of government regulation that is missing today. Bell Labs was only well funded when Bell was a monoply. TANSTAAFL

Prvate funding is more risk averse, and more short term than public... In today's business climate, long term thinking is the quarter after next.

Not just research... EVERYTHING is totally risk averse. This is why every new song sounds and looks the same. Why we keep getting remakes, reboots, and blatent copies of the same old story over and over in the movies. There is a "patch" for this with the indie film community and the indie music scene. An indie research community would be cool, but they keep arresting people trying to do basic chemistry at home. http://io9.com/5119166/teen-wi...

Different link. Remicks vs re-micks... In other words, they had it in more than one place. A little harder to fight wilful infringement when you have not really taken it down. :)

Not to mention that Disney is so big it does not know what it is doing... For example,
This is blocked.
http://video.disney.com/watch/...
This works...
http://video.disney.com/watch/...
Sound like wilful infringement to me...

Which is what the guy asking the question is trying to do...

Yet, almost everyone I know has Internet in their phone, and almost none of the use bitcoin...

And no one is doing that now, without bitcoin. This is like trying to include the cost of an electric generating plant in the price of a toaster.

Because that is the only reason to have portable Internet, of course...

Why? It has value. And companies willing to process it for you and convert directly into your currency of choice. And due to it's nature, it is actually harder for the merchant to be defrauded than with regular credit cards... Not sure where the downside here is, especially if they are not holding them.