They probably can't, since they aren't the copyright owner. I would think it would be easier to make some kind of case that if one party doesn't care enough to remove content from their own engine then the cost burden of doing so on the other should be compensated.

arcite,

This is Lieutenant Commander Data, attempting to communicate with you through a sub-space channel modulating the reality you are currently perceiving through the 21st century website "Slashdot". An unknown being has locked us out of the holodeck where you are being held and filmed as part of Season 7. Whatever you do, do not initiate the .torrent from TPB. Doing so may trigger a paradox singularity destroying the fabric of space-time. After all, you wouldn't steal a car...

Why? Didn't those people get what was advertised to them at the time?

Who cares about that?

You should be more concerned that anything you say to anyone online can be monitored by the government at the flip of a switch (which, based on other articles we've read recently about data warehousing facilities, might eventually be always on). You will have no freedom of speech without real risk to your safety and freedom, even in "private" conversation.

All privacy questions aside, are sat nav devices reliable enough for this purpose?

I purchased a TomTom device new within the last year. On complex intersections - and sometimes just on parallel roads - it can "snap" the car back and forth between pieces of roadway on the display. Sometimes it seems to think you're starting a turn you're not actually making and then eventually snaps the car back onto the correct road later. When exiting a parking lot it sometimes isn't certain about which direction you're really moving in until you've drove a little. It has also tried to direct me down a variety of local roads that don't actually exist. I imagine at least some of these issues are somewhat common among sat navs, and this is only part of my anecdotal experience with one device.

The point is, when these things become a significant input into insurance rates, who can actually inspect them and certify them for such purposes?

I haven't returned anything to Amazon in a while now, but I think I recall that so long as they approve the return you get a free shipping label (for most things). They're also very well known for being return-friendly (although that may not be the same for all of their marketplace sellers).

Those seem contradictory. Also, that doesn't help Target compete at all, it helps vendors compete against themselves and Target happens to win on one side of the competition (on the other side, some other outlet loses).

I personally don't have a problem shopping in retail stores for a wide variety of things so long as they're priced reasonably. Unfortunately for brick and mortars, if I find a similar product on Amazon for 40% less on a big ticket item, I'm also not stupid and neither are lots of other consumers. This happens frequently, and, if you're reading, I'm sorry, but it does not cost you a difference of $60 on a $150 item to display it in store and I will still not pay such a difference if you happen to have mildly different SKUs with minor feature differences.

The ISP could alternatively decide to always prioritize VOIP traffic and ensure all VOIP packets received longer than n milliseconds ago were sent before any other traffic, which IMO is vastly different than applying P2P throttling.

Perhaps if P2P protocols weren't throttled people could invent more interesting things to use them for, including more time-sensitive applications?

Who cares? That ought to be irrelevant. Copyright should not extend as long (or longer than) 70 years in the first place.