The way damages were calculated is detailed by the document linked (and was upheld by appeal, as it most likely substantially underestimated the real damages).
Next time court should hire RIAA lawyers and let them make the math of the damages.
I blame life in a modern city causing people to hardly ever hear silence, which makes them uncomfortable with it.
Have you ever been in the jungle? I do and I can tell you that THAT is a noisy place. So are water falls, rivers, beaches with crashing waves and noisy birds... Nature IS noisy!
It's their property they can do what they want with it. It's no different from me running facial recognition against people who walk up my stairs. (which i dont do btw..)
No, they can't. People's rights must be respected even in private property, that's why local bars can't install cameras on girls bathrooms. You can install facial recognition, but people can still walk on the street with glasses and a hat.
There is strong evolutionary pressure for nutritional efficiency. Carrying around muscles you don't need uses up calories you could have used to live through the drought. Not a problem now for most humans, but it really mattered for all animals until fairly recently.
Yeah? so if a single human would have been able to kill a Mamut with his bare hands it wouldn't have been considered as an evolutionary advantage? If they could have built a house by themselves using 1 ton stones by himself? how about ripping the head off saber tooth tigers?
I don't think it's an evolutionary issue, as parent says, we don't know what we will break in the long term if humans start using this drug. Maybe each generation will loose 10% of it's IQ, which will be hard to measure in monkeys and mice.
The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut.
