I would agree with you, except I have a much, much bigger problem with corporations sending UNDERCOVER FUCKING AGENTS into people's homes under false pretenses.

Not just undercover agents, but agents who are not affiliated with law enforcement. This is extremely troubling.

While they have uncovered a copyright infringement operation, the case is on very shaky ground because of the tactics under which evidence was procured.

The courts would have serious issues regarding the gathering of evidence by non-law enforcement entities and used to justify a warrant in a court of law. Law enforcement has strict guidelines under which evidence is admissible in a court of law and private entities are not exempt from these guidelines. This is malicious enough that the evidence should be barred from a court of law and the person(s) responsible should be reprimanded.

Legal precedent has been established for DECADES. It is common for vindictive friends or relatives to report a false crime to law authorities. Knowing this, law authorities take such reports with a grain of salt. Founder of Co$ L. Ron Hubbard had a habit of reporting enemies to the FBI during the 1950s communist witch hunt and they eventually just ignored him. Today there are criminal charges for filing a false report of a crime.

It's a global survey. That would include China, which is a well known piracy haven.

When the entire content of TPB is available as a small archive of magnet links, hosted on numerous sites around the world, what's the point of a DDOS?

All those torrents are uesless without the index database, which the DDOS is preventing access to.

People are burned out.

Why are we burned out?

I'm tired of the half-truths and deception of marketing. I'm tired of the sugarcoating of a poor product. I'm tired of the 20-easy-payments-of-$49-a-month sales pitch that some moron fails to do the math before he realizes he paid $1000 for a cucumber slicer. I'm tired of the sale prices that print "after rebate" in small unreadable font on a fast ticker tape scrollbar because I refuse to use rebates. I'm tired of the "some restrictions apply" that is the devil in the details in which that great sales price no longer applies.

I'm tired of being deluged with ads at every turn. Billboards on tractor trailers, vans, and other rolling stock. Billboards on sports clothing. Billboards on racing cars. Animated billboards digitally overlayed on sports fields and borders. Billboards in the doctors office and pharmacies. Billboards on the public school football field scoreboard. Billboards in the restaurants. Billboards on the platemats in restaurants. Junk mail in my mailbox and inbox. Sales pitches at my phone. Text spam messages. Billboards at the urinals and bathroom stall doors for crying out loud!

I'm tired of the ads on broadcast radio. There is a lot of decent music not getting on radio because radio wants three minute song formats that can fit into their advertising format. I'm tired of ads being blared at higher volume than the songs. I'm tired of turning down the volume knob or station surfing until the ad is over.

I'm tired of TV displaying ads in the bottom border during a program. I'm tired of ads on the news broadcast disguised as stories. I'm tired of the "ticker tape" scrolling ad banners distracting me. I'm tired of that itty bitty TV screen being split into multiple frames where ads are displayed on one of them. I'm tired of the worsening program-to-ad ratio where there are increasing ad time per hour and more frequent interruptions in the program. I'm tired of ads being blared at higher volume than the program. I'm tired of channel surfing until the ads are over.

Yeah, we're burned out. I unplugged from broadcast TV since 2000. I quit listening to broadcast radio and ripped all my CDs to mp3s and play them on my car CD player. I got an unpublished phone number to keep telemarketers out. I signed up to get off junk mail lists and previewed credit card offers. I refuse to install Flash and any other application that can deliver animated ads on my computer. I refuse to divulge my email, physical address, or phone number to retailers.

TOO MUCH!

XP did not come with a way to play DVD's unless you purchased software

Not true. XP did come with a player. dvdplay.exe can be found in the system32 directory although it never appeared on the desktop or anywhere under START, not even under accessories.

I contacted my congressman to express my opposition. Anyone else?

How do I find the re-election campaign paypal account for my representatives?

If I add a girlfriend, subtract her clothes, and divide her legs will the brain scan predict if I'm going to multiply?

Read case history of $cientology triying to bully the dutch into submitting their freedoms and rights when they publically posted forbidden Co$ doctrine. Co$ got their ass handed to them by the dutch courts.

Netscape? They are so 2000. If any patent was granted to Netscape that would be twelve years ago, patents have a 14 year life. They're due to expire soon. And if the Mozilla organization was infringing on these patents then AOL would had litigated long ago. Smells like a non-issue.

For years, companies have been remotely bricking mobile devices that have been hacked. Why didn't these idiots do the same for devices that were reported stolen?!?