I think that a link is the direct equivalent of a citation. The extra functionality is in the user's brower which, when clicking on the link. does the equivalent of "sending a robot into the stacks to fetch the cited publication and open it at the appropriate page"

Is a bibliographic reference to an infringing work in a paper publication also considered as 'advocating infringement'? If not, then a hyperlink should also not be considered as advocating infringement.

Yes, most governments forget that they are the servants of the people, not the other way round.

Reducing the demand by charging is not a magic bullet. Even if every (or most) customers cut down on the amount of streaming, there will still be a problem if too many of them choose to stream at the same time (eg a popular TV show or live event).

A correlation but not always a meaningful one. Consider 2 customers, both of which download about 1GByte per day. One streams approx 500MBytes/hour for 2 hours during the peak period when many other domestic customers are doing the same. The other is downloading at a relatively constant rate of approx 40MBytes/hour 24x7. Even though they both download approximately the same amount each month, the first customer is probably costing the ISP considerably more than the second. If all customers were like the 2nd one then the ISP would only need 1/10 of the external capacity than if all customers were like the first one.

Many of these smart systems - such as entering a destination into the navigation system should be made to only work while the vehicle is stationary so as not to distract the driver. It makes sense to input the destination before starting the journey rather than 'on the go'.

That has been suggested in Spotify 'ideas' forum a number of time and each time Spotify respond with 'we will not implement that'.

But that is just one song. Assuming that the other tracks will not get as much play as the 'hit' song an album of 10 tracks might generate, say, five times that - approximately €30 000 per year.

Yet many, if not most, of the all-time most sucessful artists started out playing local pubs and clubs before getting signing by a label.

Why do networks love it when people comment online in realtime? if someone is sending tweets or posting on Facebook then the show is not holding their attention. Unless they are waiting for the ad breaks to post online, in which case they are not paying attention to the advertisers.

Which is why organisations such as financial institutions should publish their certificate fingerprint 'out of band', for example on the back of the credit/debit cards and on every (paper) statement they send you.

W3C should not be including anything like DRM. They should remember that is is HyperText Markup Language. All they need to define is the usage of the 'a' tag, and left some IETF working group define the transport type for video etc. rather than using HyperText Transfer Protocol.

There is no technical reason why the decryption modules could not be cross-platform. They could be implemented in an 'intermediate' language such Java Bytecode or UCSD p-code which can be run on (almost) any platform.

Send a cheque or postal order with the order or in settlement of the account.

There are already ISPs which supply IPv6. The SixXS FAQ lists 7 in the UK (which means competitors of BT) and 14 in the USA.