Not if all they care about is getting multiple cases on, damaging the reputation of the target quickly. The quality of the cases themselves doesn't matter much, except for the important few.

"Perception of risk" != "Existence of risk". Using agents to incite riots in a mass gathering (say, by pelting stones) is an extreme example of what's happening here. The harm in pelting those stones is limited to non-existant, but the people don't see it that way and the end result is much worse.

If you have to deal with only one case or one opponent, instead of a whole swarm of lawsuits and troll companies, expenses go down and things become easier to manage, plus the uncertainity involved (a key element of FUD) also goes down.

What about imaginary access points?

In the FAQ, they have listed yet another key if you want to use Windows Media Centre.

Several years ago? MSE is that old?

There is a world outside the US, and many countries in which murder is a serious problem.

If these artists and programmers spend so many hours in to creating stuff, how come they spend so little time in pricing it? Often enough, it's one-price-fits-all. I remember this dicussion on facebook over the PHD comics' movie release, where one American said that if you can't pay $10 for streaming a movie, you certainly can't afford to go watch one in a theatre. Well, guess what? I can comfortably go and watch a 3D movie in 10 USD (and that will cover travelling and food costs for me, too). I mentioned in another comment that my college doesn't throtte traffic or block sites, and I guess they realise that us students downloading and pirating stuff is cheaper than having to buy licenses for all that. You have mentioned the music and programming industry, yet you forgot one of the most bloodsucking cuntish group that thrives on copyright: the scientific publications industry. The rates they charge are exhorbitant. In a country where (I read this in an interview) the cheapest kill cost just over 1 USD, why in fuck's name should I shell out so much for what is a result of patently stupid business practices, carried out by people who live thousands of kilometers from where I live, probably a couple of continents over?

Then I guess it's BSNL. I'd guess they must be well under the DoT's thumb. My college blocks most ports, so torrenting has to go through Tor (proxy problems, nothing else seems to work). They don't block sites, irrespective of the data usage. Probably because that's cheaper than buying licenses for every POS software we have to use, and we use the LAN to share most stuff.

You must be a PHP developer, probably of the team that "patched" this hole.

That was amusing. My ISP is my college itself. :)