...except for those in public office and the people who paid to put them there.

Right. You ain't doin nuthin wrong so you don't have anything to worry about.

Why even bother with warrants at all? The police never go after someone who has done no wrong.

Indeed, I wish noscript would allow me to whitelist domains and even specific scripts on a per-site basis. So, for example, I could whitelist maps.google.com's use of javascript from gstatic.com but not allow any other sites, like images.google.com, to pull in javascript from gstatic.com.

Call me crazy, but I think this is far from Old Media's "last stand" - I think they've got plenty of more social and market-destructive moves before they succumb to reality.

Lol. You are now arguing my point. Some will will some will lose.

What part of some did you fail to understand when I used the word?

Your ignorance is proof of nothing more than your ignorance.

Uh-huh. Tell that to the people who went to the hassle of buying CBS color televisions in 1951.

Right! The obsoleting of analog cellular by digital cellular didn't inconvenience anyone.

They didn't replace prior technology either, it wasn't a change. It was something brand new.

Tell that to the owners of CP/M computers.

Tell that to the people running for-pay BBSes.

Funny you should mention both of those together considering how many cell phones pick up interference from older microwaves.

Tell that to the thousands of mechanics who have been hurt or killed by accidental jet injection.

Are you kidding me?

Some will win, some will lose.
Some are born to sing the blues.
But the movie goes on and on.

Change is almost never an improvement for everybody. But while things will get worse, or at least different enough to require an effort, for a minority, most will benefit.

There is more to the story. I don't have the time to dig up links, maybe someone else can. But essentially Hatch has done a 180 on copyright issues over the past decade or so. Roughly coincident with his change in attitude was the publication of a "vanity" album of him singing which was reportedly completely funded by an RIAA member publisher.

So yes, I do think it is true that he is bought and paid for in the sense that his public opinion radically changed over a relatively short period of time that involved some questionable events.

If the piratebay people were so inclined, they could probably spend a few hundred dollars and get a rebuttal run at prnewswire.com which would hit the newsdesks of pretty much all the newspapers in the country and plenty of places online.

Not to say that those newsdesks would necessarily do anything with it, but if TPB guys were clever enough they might get noticed - the news does love a good fight that involves overtly hypocritical politicians, especially when accusations of corruption are involved and the guy is a bought-and-paid for MAFIAA mouth-piece.

Nah. Dis stay Hawai'i brah, no ones know bout all da kine kapakai. We's jus wen to da beach an forgot about da kine.