You know where "Toll" votes come from?

Slashdotters who only occasionally get "mod points", but really have no clue.

Any service that brings traffic to Google, will - perhaps in other ways - bring money to Google. Google does not provide "free services", and in this case, the "rights holders" in Spain not only want free, they want Google to pay so that they, the "rights holders" in Spain can not only make money on Google traffic, but make Google pay for the "right" to them.

Of course it is complete bullshit, as the Spaniards had now concluded...

Well imagine that, they want it all - free traffic from from Google that google has to pay for... Well, it comes full circle now.

"Rights holders" still do not understand the equation.

Google needs to play this card more often.

Slashdot does not delete accounts, they just mod you into oblivion.

I suspect you are posting as an "Anonymous Coward" because you have no balls.

I accept my mods, you on the otherhand, are clearly a "karma whore" who shoses to post as Anon because you don't want to get your precious Slashdot Karma modded down.

On the therhand, I speak my mind, and am usueally in the "excellent" range, though sometimes the sheep here push me down to "good?

You are fake, I am real.

Live with it.

Boy, and how Slashdot is now patrolled by the Windows Fan Bois...

Ah yes, Windows "sysadmins"... Cream of the crop. Unless there isn't a GUI for it.

They could have, but why would anyone assume different?

We are not talking about Windows.

A company is not required to provide technical support to a competitor.

Why should they? Are the obligated to provide support to their competitors? Are they obligated to provided support of one of their products on a different OS at all?

More about Jeff Sterling here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...

That China attacks this and that all the time is a known fact. The "attack map" connects nothing to Sony.

Yes, "SONY BAD" but yet there is zero evidence that Sony has anything to do with this.

Could be that they do, but nothing but Sony haters pontification on foundations of nothing at the moment...

I have no love for Sony, other than my 70's vintage 4 track reel-to-reel. But this kind of story is really no story at all.

Corporate sponsored hacking is frowned upon. Prove me wrong.

There is no real evidence of this, just a bunch of speculation and innuendo from the Torrent fans.

Could Sony do this? Of course. But there would certainly be corporate liability involved.

So would they? Probably not.

Sony knows these movies will make it to the illegal market sooner or later, so why would they open themselves to this kind of liability? They would not.

Internal emails are probably more of a concern, but anything that could be relieased would already be the subject of internal roumors amoung those concerned.

This story is probably wishful thinking and a crock.

That's good enough for the Patent Office...