Just be handin' o'er tha booty, and ah'll be on me way!

Your load testing may be the exact circumstances which the OP experienced on iTunes except that the OP was most likely using his iTunes on desktop and not a server. MythTV was designed specifically with a server-client architecture in mind. But answer my question: Do people use their MythTV server/backend as their everyday desktop? Almost never. As a combination frontend/backend a MythTV box is used as a dedicated HTPC machine. If the OP placed iTunes on a server and experienced issues you have had a point. It has nothing to do with your silly "quality" jab but the limits of server vs desktops. I can run Oracle 11g on my laptop but it's not advisable for 24/7 operations for my laptop be my company's database server.

We didn't even HAVE computers until high school! And even then, they were in no way networked! Kids these days!

In all your examples, the hardware is often dedicated to being a media server. Most people don't use their MythTV server as their desktop as well. They might use MythTV client on their everyday machine but not the server components. It's a matter of asset dedication.

I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me that the first thing you can do is talk to one.

Amazon probably has a Fight Club-esque formula formula they do where they weigh the number of books you've sold against the cost of you hiring a lawyer and getting bogged down in a copyright lawsuit for the next decade and the odds of them ever having to pay you a settlement and are betting you won't sue them.

If this is an endemic behavior on their part, you could band together with other indie writers they've targeted and file a class action lawsuit. If there's anything to it, your lawyers will probably get ONE BILLION DOLLARS a few years from now, but all you're likely to see from that is a $10 gift certificate to Hot Topic.

You could also try to sue them in small claims court. They might not even be bothered to defend against that. If you win anything substantial they'd be pretty likely to appeal it and then you'd be back to the original formula.

So yeah. Talk to a lawyer, weigh his advice and sue or don't sue accordingly.

One of the stories on this new evidence stated that a pilot saw Gardner Island and stated that he'd not seen anyone but saw signs of habitation. For some reason nobody looked into it further. And another thing that's interesting is someone found a human skull and a few navigational instruments on the island and again it was not considered to be of interest or associated with the Earhart story.

To bad LRH wasn't still around or else he could have made a Goddess out of her.

LoB

Explain to me if HBO decides to increase 10x with DirecTV, how are they just as powerless to stop is as much as every cable provider? Explain to me if Warner Brothers decides to charge DirecTV 2x for pay-per-view for movies, how DirecTV is any different than cable system? DirecTV may have better negotiators than Netflix and may have more subscribers, but they are still at the mercy of the content providers.

I think that's why Apple is pushing for iCloud. The problem is that you are using your desktop/laptop as a server when it isn't one. If you had an OS X server it probably wouldn't happen but not many consumers would buy one.

Ummm how is DirecTV not at the mercy of the content providers like everyone else? Just like cable, DirecTV has had issues with content like local channels.

Compared to the iPhone and iPod, Apple TV isn't as successful. But in the viewpoint that Apple has sold millions of them and profitably, I would disagree with that notion.