They still let you turn off all ads if you have sufficient karma.

"The old copyright model [...] has expired."

Nobody is saying copyright law shouldn't exist.

"And yet the Music Industry today is as powerful as ever."

Is it still powerful? Sure. As ever? Uh .. no.

If you think you're the only Canadian that can't stand it, I don't think you live in Canada. Or are you just trying to express to us how unique you are?

"A poll about the new Mad Max film - i didn't even know a new release existed"

Are you sure you're not living in a bunker in Pakistan?

"... i can guess that the story is about a lonely girl that had a long career in IT as a twitter/facebook account manager, driving a Tesla around the Apple headquarters, assembling an army of H-1B warriors, so she can fight for social justice against the evil Republican gang that try to extend the copyright period of a manuscript kept inside the sacred temple of holy Richard Dawkins"

Ah, okay, you are.

Sure, let's solve this problem by ... uh .. what, legislating HTML practices? Brilliant.

I don't think you understand games a service.

It helps if you know what you're talking about. Starcraft you can mod all you want in single player, in fact, they effectively encourage Starcraft mods.

They still have 7M subscribers. I'd hardly count that as dead.

Cats only eat a relatively small % of the birds they kill. I'm a cat owner, but the numbers don't lie.

Suck it up. None.

Go home, you're drunk. It's not important that it's written in Java. It just is.

"Hi everyone, we wrote this library in a language, but we won't tell you what language we wrote it in, because it's not important."

That's a weapons-grade stupid way to think about it. Man, I couldn't give a shit about Java. Don't use it, don't program in it. Exactly what point do you think you're making here?

Are not, rather.

Except people who commit crimes don't really care all that much about the punishment. Harsher sentences don't lead to reduction in crime. Criminals are the kinds of people who think, "Hey, what's the punishment for killing somebody?"

You're a very broken person, but I suspect you know this.