I don't think you can compare the two. Radio play is a degraded, time limited, copy that takes effort to replicate. If you like what you hear there are plenty of incentives to buy your a copy that will suffer from none of these limitations. A copied MP3, on the other hand, is available always, pristine and effortless. Once it is available for free there are no limitations to it and no further incentive to buy a copy.

Name one spammer who doesn't describe their spam as "well intended".

Maybe the kind of person who thinks they're in charge of their phone, and can decide what and when it downloads.

Apple just taught them an expensive lesson.

Totally. Because U2 are your typical, just about getting by, rock band.

U2 don't have to sell another album, ever, to remain multi-millionaires. They could give away their work for nothing for the rest of their lives, and still be richer than 99.99% of the planet. They are not, in any way, a template for other musicians.

The article and summary is wrong, and practically every comment in this thread is misinformed.

The system is used by NHS England. It contains patient data for NHS England. Not UK. Not Britain. England.

So the population of the UK has nothing to do with it.

So your argument goes; because "normal" people get stomped on, famous people should get stomped on too. That'll teach them a lesson in what it's like to be normal. Let's not aspire to make things better for anyone, just equally crap.

I'd prefer this approach; famous people make this a big deal, so maybe things will get done that'll help prevent it happening to anyone in future. Including "normal" people. We are not going to put a stop to this ever happening, but that doesn't means we shouldn't try. If it takes a famous people kicking up a fuss to achieve this, then so be it.

No, children are not idiots. They are children. That means they lack experience in all things in life. They can be easily mislead (either by design or accident) to do things that an adult wouldn't without appreciating the consequences. Because they know no better.

Unless you want to spend your time familiarising yourself with every app your children use, down to the detail, then you need to trust (your word) the app to play fair and not exploit (either by design or accident) your children's naivety.

That is what this about. Trust in Google and the app makers to get this right was misplaced, it turns out.

Someone would die from it because it has escalated to a game of one-upmanship where people add extra bits.

Like using nitrogen. Or gasoline. Or massive ice cubes. Or while at driving a speeding car. Or in a swimming pool shackled to a sack of concrete.

You get the idea. People think that somehow it's not dangerous or idiotic because it's for charity.

It's an encyclopedia.

If you're going to compare it with Facebook and Pinterest, then all you are doing is demonstrating how how ignorant you are about what it is.

If you'd read on, it gets worse.

A personal submarine is like a sports car, apparently.

From the article;

Who said astronomy was dull? There has to be a TV series to had here. Action Astronomer wields her mighty War Telescope!

For "Nobody" read "No Journalist".

Unless Microsoft have really lost the plot, I'm fairly certain they know the difference between 'Threshold' and 'Windows 9', and which is heading for release.

Maybe he should stop taking his work to his bedroom?

Why are they running a server in their bedroom where they sleep?

Sounds like something a 7 year old living with his momma might do.

Cite?