Okay, yeah, a LotR slot machine may be repulsive.

But I find the fact that Tolkien has been dead just shy of 40 years but we're still dealing with rights on his work to be even more repulsive.

I can understand why his estate works so hard to protect the rights. If they didn't have them, they'd have to get real jobs instead of leaching off of an ancestor.

Take off your MPAA controlled glasses. Nothing in that quote says they are going to necessarily download it illegally. And Amazon does do individual downloads, sometimes for free, and many movies for just a couple dollars.

Obviously you are totally unaware that there are legal and reliable sites that make movies available online. Let's start with Netflix and Amazon, two services you apparently don't know about.

The editors are correct. It very clearly says "extinct in the wild". "In the wild" does not include "in captivity".

If I bought it, I'll crack it or jailbreak it. If I want to play a DVD in my toaster oven, I will. And Congress, the Library of Congress, the President, the CIA, the FBI, the DHS, the RIAA, and the MPAA can all singly or collectively kiss my law breaking ass.

Holy shit! A company provides a service and expects you to pay for it!!! This is an outrage! I'm calling my Congressmen!!!

Obviously its a slow news day at Slashdot.

No matter who wins this debate, or the election, Americans have lost.

You can blame Fox and BuzzFeed all you want. But the simple and ultimate fact is they are only giving the people what they want to see. If there wasn't a demand for it, Fox wouldn't be broadcasting it and BuzzFeed wouldn't be posting it. In America, "if it bleeds, it leads".

As far as TV news in general goes, there hasn't been a decent newscast in America since Walter Cronkite retired. And yes, I'm that damned old :(

Look at the positive side...at least it isn't hanging around Uranus.

I'd just like to say that Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf's mother wears combat boots in the shower.

She did what she was accused of. She lied about it in a court room, to both a jury and a judge. She got caught in her lies. She got whacked for lying. And once again, all the fanbois come crying for her.

I'm saving my sympathy for someone who is innocent of what they were falsely accused of by the RIAA or MPAA. Not some dumb whore who was trying to game the system after she got caught with her hand in the cookie jar. Maybe her and Tenenbaum can start a new political party...they can call it the Itty Bitty Pity Party.

You can use your iPad when you are the pilot and are qualified to make flight-specific safety evaluations.

If he was innocent and had "fought the good fight", I would support Stupidbaum all I could. As it is, not only did he actually do what his accusers claimed, he lied about it in court. He got what he deserved. I bet next time he won't listen to relatives that obviously got their law degrees from a bubblegum machine.

One would think that geeks like those on Slashdot would support those unjustly prosecuted (and persecuted). Instead, they mostly back lying thieving guilty idiots like Stupidbaum and Jamie Dumbitch. And then the community cries and whines when the idiots get slammed by the court.

Hell will freeze over...multiple times...before anyone at the RNC votes any way other than how they are told to vote. And I'd say the same thing about the DNC also.

Its obvious from reading the comments on this story that a lot of you all think this means Ron Paul is in favor of a free and open internet, and has come out in favor of net neutrality. You all obviously don't know Ron Paul. For him, and his son, "internet freedom" means businesses on the internet are free to do as they please, capitalism rules, and net neutrality will die a quick death.