As long as they're not based in the U.S., no one really cares about copyright. The WHOLE rest of the world half-asses the enforcement of IP protection in comparison. The only news that ever happen in that field are always caused by US interests trying to force a shrill, paranoid climate of fear of reprisal for innovating anything at all without having paid everyone else in the industry.

Abolish IP, solve the problem, adapt or die.

just to post high enough that it'll be read, not that anyone with an opinion would care about mine:

That's fucking retarded. Japan is afraid of nuclear power now, what with being the only nation ever to have been a-bombed. Officials pander to a scared public by shutting down nuclear power although it's demonstrably safer and ecologically better than every other alternative.

Wind and solar are too weak, end of story.

Burning stuff is stupidly dirty. Coal power plants release even more radioactive crap than nuclear disasters, and that's nothing compared to the footprint of their carbon emission, without even beginning to count the other reasons those plants should have disappeared.

Marine barrages genocide entire ecosystems. What do you think happens when you block the tides with kilotons of concrete?

What else is there?

Exactly.

140 million idiots can't be wrong. THAT is REAL democracy. Direct and total. Oh, and strictly transparent.

NO system is functional until the last and least citizen is allowed to vote and edit the laws they want, and count the votes themselves, and read the source that counts the votes.

And the Internet is goig to ignore every law that forbid it to do anything it simply can. And route around the enforcements.

There are no laws on the Internet. If there were, it would not be the Internet any longer.

Who doesn't want me to do things and is apparently, in your mind, justified of having the clout to jail me because ... because what? WHat right does anyone have to interfere with my liberty while I'm solving a problem?
Also : do you really trust people enough to give them two tons of speeding metal on the ground, all the while thinking it would be murderous to replace them each with fifty kilos of light material in the air?

"Patents" - stop right there. I'm absolutely entitled to put ANY idea to use as soon as physically possible. My neighbors will stop complaining when I sell them gas and electricity for one tenth of the official price, or all-you-can-consume for a flat access rate that covers maintenance and upgrade prices. You know, what they don't do in any actual energy company because it's either embezzled by govt officials or distributed as dividends to people who are way too rich already.

Lastly, screwing up fermented alcohol production? Even animals get it right. Humans have been making alcoholic beverages since forever. Distilled alcohol is hard to get right and dangerous when made wrong, but you just can't screw up beer.

Those conformists who are a danger to liberty? I didn't think they were all that dangerous until this discussion. You believe in those rules. You really believe in them. If you COULD think, I'd tell you to think about it next time you'll see your wife groped by TSA officials the day before pictures of her butt as seen through backscatter scanners appear on porn sites and your stolen electronics are on eBay.

This, exactly this.

The article (that I didn't read) exposes how it's just a group that works the exact same way as usual social dissidents. The authors don't realize that the idiots could very well be leaders in another action, and how stupidly fast and easy it is to become a leader. Anonymous is a brand name for dissidence, not an organized criminal network.

That's what it means, "we are legion". It means everyone can be replaced as long as anyone has the motivation to rally enough people to Get Shit Done.

You're part of the problem. Who does NOT want to build a flying car in their garage? Or an energy source? Or beer?

"Depending on your hobby and your town, these activities can be officially encouraged, discouraged, unregulated, or illegal. For example, it's illegal to make biodiesel fuel at home in the city of Phoenix ... but not regulated in the bordering towns of Scottsdale, Chandler, or Tempe."

Yeah, so let's just ignore those retarded regulations and do what we can with what we have physically.

Foridden to make $THING unless you pony up the barrier-to-entry? Fuck that in the face forever.

Living conditions will NEVER improve as long as they have enough starving people who'll gladly go work as slaves.

Comfort whores to have safe, sane and consensual sex with would inarguably be a better thing than having antisocial brutes injects each others' asses with HIV.

Just my opinion.