They could have reasonably borrowed or rented a copy ...yet they didn't. We're not talking about what they could have done, we're talking about what they did.

Shouting it doesn't make it so. The defendant made a copy of something that deprived the original owner of a sale. Saying the defendant wouldnt have bought it in the first place is not a valid defense. Stomp your little feet if you must, but copying is, in some cases, stealing.

Wow, Just Wow.

if only I had mod points to give you, AC. The system that allows this to take place is the problem, not the soulless corporations that are all suing each other out of fiduciary responsibility (otherwise known as "whatever isn't forbidden is mandatory")
TechRights thanks you for providing the page views, Apple Haters. The only reason this article made the cut on /. is that they used a big fat polarizing keyword: "Apple". Dvorak figured this out years ago: when you need readers, bash Apple. You'll either get the haters or the fanbois or maybe even both, and the tasty, tasty pageviews that line the wallet.

From the site: "Don't take it seriously

The privacy policy, the contact us page — it’s all a joke. We came up with the idea of building a crawler like this and keeping the maintenance price under $300 a month. There was only one way to prove our theory worked — to implement it in practice. So we did. Now, we find ourselves with a big crawler. We knew what it did but we didn’t know how to use it. So we decided to make a joke out of it. That’s the beauty of jokes — you can make them out of anything."

Calm down, people. It'll get funny when the RIAA subpoenas them for their database.

Mine was! (I'm at an edu; I'm sure this IP has been used to pillage and loot). Kind of funny that there's a facebook connect button on the page. Who the fuck is going to click that? The best part is the music "I" have downloaded sucks, and the .exe of Photoshop is useless on my Mac.

Also, from the site: "Don't take it seriously
The privacy policy, the contact us page — it’s all a joke. We came up with the idea of building a crawler like this and keeping the maintenance price under $300 a month. There was only one way to prove our theory worked — to implement it in practice. So we did. Now, we find ourselves with a big crawler. We knew what it did but we didn’t know how to use it. So we decided to make a joke out of it. That’s the beauty of jokes — you can make them out of anything."

The whole point of drones are that they're disposable and don't put a pilot/crew at risk. It's impressive if they forced it down via electronic countermeasures or similar. Otherwise, congrats, Iran just got a really nifty model airplane.

Perry got bought. He wouldn't have done it otherwise. This doesn't challenge my worldview, it reinforces it. (better luck next time)

in 3....2....1....

I mean, really.

I think anon expressed himself just fine. Or did you not understand it?

I suppose Stallman's just being a dick (or an attention whore). Used to be we at least pretended to be respectful of the dead for a little while.... but not any more, not when there's column-inches to appropriate.

It's a good idea but to send the bill you'd have to prove they gathered the information about you before you sent the bill. Unless you have access to the logs or can audit the hardware sufficiently to prove to six people (who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty) that OnStar tracked you, your lawsuit will fail.

Some day they'll even suggest friends for you based on your browsing history.

Chances are they'd have to modify the wiring layout to do that. Probably in future model years the unit will be more integrated and harder to remove (you know, kind of like removing IE from Windows).

I've got a Saturn and an Equinox. Both are going to be OnStar-less shortly.