Time to walk the walk. Close any Amazon or Amazon-owned (Paypal, eBay, Skype, etc.) accounts you may have. Make sure you explain why you are doing so.

Look...I'm in Sweden and I don't trust the Swedish Justice system on this matter. It may sound like what a conspiracy-theory nut would say, but the justice system around here breaks when the US is involved. Moreover, rape is absurdly loose in this country. You can have consensual sex with a girl, but she can still change her mind the next day and claim you "got her drunk" or "talked her into it". Personal responsibility pretty much goes flying out the door in such cases (precedents abound). Moreover, the fact that Assange was denied a residency permit (uppehaltillstand) a few weeks back hints to some heavy bias on the part of the government. Both women admitted to having consensual sex with Julian. But he allegedly had an "attitude problem" with women. That's not rape in my book. I don't care what the law says, it is simply immoral to prosecute a man for rape on such bullshit. In many regards, Sweden leads the world in democracy, transparency, social justice, etc. but some of the laws are simply ridiculous.

You kinda remind me of Bono's argument that the MPAA should look at China for solutions to copyright infringement. You seem to be ignorant of how Arab Palestinians are treated in Israel.

I'll quote the wiki: "Symbian OS kernel (EKA2) supports sufficiently-fast real-time response such that it is possible to build a single-core phone around itâ"that is, a phone in which a single processor core executes both the user applications and the signalling stack. This is a feature which is not available in Linux. This has allowed SymbianOS EKA2 phones to become smaller, cheaper and more power efficient.[citation needed]"

Is that even true? If not, we should take it up on the discussion page.

Tiny? They're bigger than my place, you insensitive clod! Ah...the joys of grad school...

No. What's needed is threatening, bombing and invading foreign countries.

Any patriot worth his/her salt knows that.

American authorities reportedly refused an Air France flight from Paris to Mexico entry into US airspace because a left-wing journalist writing a book on the CIA was on board.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5217186/US-authorites-divert-Air-France-flight-carrying-no-fly-journalist-to-Mexico.html

There is excessive paranoia going on. Face it!

This is theater.

First of all, this is the lowest court. That is, it's pretty much a layman's verdict. The case will go up to a higher court to finally end up in the highest court. I personally don't believe the verdict will be upheld (at least not the ridiculous jail sentence.

The Swedish government is currently using terrorism. They're trying to scare people, and this verdict is just part of the game; i.e: mere theater.

Economics isn't an exact science. There's a school of thought that argues quite the opposite. The most vocal of heterodox economist being Ha-Joon Chang.

Why would anyone use their geo-restricted binaries when open-source Despotify is out there?

And the same goes for systems that encourage doing nothing at all very strongly, not showing the consequences of refusing to go to war when confronted with certain situations.

Are you implying that bombing and invading Iraq was justified?

The number of i2p routers boomed since the introduction of IPRED. You need to be on the i2p network to view the stats link though.

http://stats.i2p/cgi-bin/total_routers_month.cgi

Just because they didn't succeed, doesn't mean they didn't try.

I understand the obvious difference between killing somebody in immediate self-defense, and doing the same just because you can. I wasn't defending Hussein in any way. Just saying that "inside his own country's borders" and "to his own people" is a silly argument coming from the same Americans who financed the gratuitous war on Iraq. I'm saying, Kurds (you know, the ones that got gassed) are still trying to get their own country, but you never hear a peep from the establishment in Washington about Turkey cracking down on them.

If my brother punches me, it's very different from some douchebag who doesn't even live in the same town, and who then claims it's in my best interests while setting up camp in my backyard.

Indeed. Here's a video: http://www.cnetfrance.fr/news/internet/loi-hadopi-rejet-assemblee-nationale-39391608.htm?xtor=RSS-2