I have been growing whole, working organs in my own body since at least 1984.

Pro-click zone right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Hmm... That's not what I heard.

I'm not a kid and I think the predicate "gamer" has something to do with the kind of games you play. Now what, msobkow. Now what.

While it may not be set as precedent in the UK BS is BS whether it's English or American...

But I do know what you're saying. Actually in my comment I didn't even mean to suggest the exaggeration claims were a legal defense or had been established as false by courts, I just meant it as more of a "we all know that's not true" statement.

Do you have any sources you can point to about legal precedent being set so companies have to be more realistic/specific about damages in an infringement claim? I would genuinely be interested in reading that.

Which will eventually be replaced by a deep, seething hatred of Google.

Fair enough, still think it's too harsh. But, no, I did not realize the threshold for grand theft was so low. Never really thought about it but if someone had asked me to guess what the threshold was I would have probably started at at least 10,000.

Oh man, this guy is an idiot!

And a cam rip at that. Well, as the guy in the article goes to show, there is no accounting for stupid.

I agree he deserves to be punished and I get that he probably doesn't have enough money to pay a fine so it's off to the joint he goes but is 33 months really a fitting punishment here? That's almost three years of this guy's life. And the claim that "millions were lost" has been proven to be exaggerated over and over again. A download does not equal a lost sale; those that download do not buy, they simply go without. I'm not saying that makes it OK, I'm just saying the punishment does not fit the crime.

Well it's like the GP said, cable channels like HBO were touted as ad free and cable companies did nothing to correct people when they made the (wrong) assumption that all Cable TV was ad free. In the 80s when I first had access to it the marketing of the day was "enjoy premium content ad free". They weren't lying, they simply weren't telling people that not *all* of the programming was ad free.

E-readers are easier to hold in my hands, especially when it comes to long (in terms of pages) or small (in terms of physical size) books. I also like that I can read in the dark with my e-reader because it has a backlit screen.

It's easier to turn the page of normal books, though. It's also much easier to skip around between large numbers of pages.

I don't have mod points right now so I have to thank you unanonymously for making me laugh.

Why don't my turds count as things that I make? They're perfectly organic, reproducible by anyone on earth, and individualized to my specific colon.