Competent? He doesn't leave the golf course until the shit has already hit the fan and is running down the walls.

You are advocating that "a few major corporations" tell the government what to do.
Which corporations get to pick the agenda? Just the ones that do no evil? What is your recourse if you don't happen to agree with these few major corporations?
Wouldn't be a better idea, for the sake of each individual citizen's rights, to take all the effort expended on a tax protest and use that to promote a candidate, educate the electorate and convince them to vote for them?

Besides, I agree with Otter about protests, "I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part."

Climate in not weather. Weather is not climate.

You want to talk about climate? Long term climate and survival of life on Earth?
How about 60 million years worth of climate?
For a great majority of the past 60 million years (since mammals emerged on earth),

THERE HAVE BEEN NO POLAR ICE CAPS

The earth is in a cooler than average phase now. There has even been rapid warming in the past (Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum for example). The geologic processes that shape the earth today are the same processes that shaped it in the past, varying only in intensity and duration.
The climate will change regardless of human activity and life will go on.

Isn't that what elections are for? Your suggestion is just a small group of people (some of whom may not even be US citizens who can vote) throwing a tantrum until they get what they want.

Key words seem to be:
"an action, not protected by the First Amendment"
and "unauthorized".

Some clarification would be nice, but Netflix is protected by the first amendment.
Not sure exactly what they mean by "unauthorized", but I'd bet that Netflix is in compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

There must be some really simple work-around that they seem to be trying to hide.
Maybe something like the fact that a cell phone can choose which cell base it connects to.
I'm not familiar with the cell tower side of the phone connection, but I imagine that every cell base location must have a unique ID, even a stingray. Seems like your phone could very easily be set to only connect with a cell that has a particular ID. It would then be very easy to set up a whitelist of known actually cell tower locations, to avoid a stingray in the middle.

Entropy. That's the way they've always done it.
You're asking a government bureaucrat to learn how to exchange bitcoin, give them $18 million worth and expect them not to get ripped off? Auction it.

The very way the request is phrased assumes the guilt of the persons being investigated.

This request is to find out who is responsible for ordering the actions for which they have already admitted guilt.

The IRS has already admitted they targeted these groups. Remember, May 2013? A Treasury dept. audit that showed their guilt was going to be released, so they had a press conference and admitted guilt, apologized for it and blamed some people over in Cincinnati. Remember the weird way they released the info? They had a plant at a press conference ask a question about it.

The "first amendment rights" part of the request refers to the Supreme Court ruling that nullified certain restrictions on these groups to make political donation. It was based on first amendment rights.

....while these emails are to and from a Bush appointee...

So what? Does it matter is she was appointed by Jeebus hisself? That just makes it more obvious that some higher-up told her to target the groups they did.

Are you so butt hurt by the finger pointing and name calling that you're willing to let such an obvious and egregious abusive of government just slide on by?

It seems the law is really not needed. What would you estimate the percentage of use cases to be, where the content is not downloaded immediately upon ordering or paying?
I'd guess that less than 1% of all digital content purchases would be in that category. That is to say, I'd guess that 99+% of all digital content purchases would be downloaded immediately.
What do you think?
Plus, this doesn't include subscription services like Netflix, so the more I think about it, the more I think that very few digital content transactions would fall into this scenario.
So why worry about it...

People in Europe tend to be different than people in the US. We don't look for loopholes and try to rip off anyone just for the sake of ripping them off.

You must have quite a view from up on your high horse.

Meanwhile, in the USA,
Just around the corner from here, there's a store with a "leave a penny, take a penny" cup. Almost every convenient store in this country has one, I may add. It's basically a cup full of pennies. You put change you may not want in there and take change when you'd like to spend some. As far as I know, there is no way to track these pennies. You could take them and go and spend them in a yard sale. You could actually make a few bucks that way. Still, people not only just take the pennies they need, they also bring pennies to stock the penny cup.

Ever read Signal to Noise?

"reduce, reuse, recycle"
Do you seriously think, in all honesty, that will reverse climate trends without significant lifestyle changes? I don't believe that for a second.

define racist: The belief that one race is superior to another.

Doesn't the show feature an unmarried couple living together?
Some censors don't like stuff like that.