Has there ever been a major OS that simply went away, period?"
Michigan Terminal System
It was a mainframe system used by several universities, including the one I went to. According to http://www.clock.org/~jss/work/mts/timeline.html the last site shutdown June 1999.
I think that congress is within its rights to set specific damages to things that are hard to place a value on. The OP says that damages should be 99 cents per song. How many people did that person share the song with? Does an average user share the song 1000 times?
That should result in 1000 people owning 99 cents each, not one person owing 990 dollars.
UNIX is hot. It's more than hot. It's steaming. It's quicksilver lightning with a laserbeam kicker. -- Michael Jay Tucker
