>A DDoS should be punished with community service; its no different from protesting a store you dislike and making it hard for customers to get in.

Its involves a computer and the internet there for its a much greater crime and must be punished as so and a very important person (corporation) was hurt so its a different level of crime.

>What gives?

Where have you been? There's this new law of the world called Intellectual Property which,... wait wait I'll explain it in peasant terms

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!"

See it all makes sense now

What I was trying to say that why can't the bands come together, create an association that creates a streaming/download service where they control it all. What would need to happen is popular bands would need to go in head first then use their power to promote other bands on this service along with promoting the serivce as artists for artists. As those new bands expand they would as port of the system use their fame/user base to promte other bands/the service.

For example say In Rainbows by Radiohead. I bought the album and paid $10 for it. I was more then happy to do it as all the money went to them and they didn't call me a thief. Now imagine if they took say 2 unknown bands and included them into their release. Those bands could have gotten some of the $$$$ from the sale and use it to start up their next album and the Radiohead fans would have gotten a serious bonus with a 3 albums for 1 purchase. This doesn't include the bonus of the fans of the unknows bands possibly buying the Radiohead album just to get the albums of the unknown bands.

"Music Artists" need to think out of the box and get the "Im gonna be rich" out of their head. No business makes for long without a proper business plan.

> (Grizzly Bear and Damon Krukowski of Galaxie 500) who are on the record as saying that Spotify streaming only earns them a handful of dollars for tens of thousands of streaming plays?

So why don't you pull your songs from Spotify? Why not put them where you'll make bags of money? Wait you probably can't as you don't own the rights/distribution rights to your music?

Seriously you'd thin by now, and by that I mean ( its not 1997 and the technology has been there for years) the artists as a collective would have created their own distribution service and raked in the dough.

will be Tekwar?

For those not old enough to have a laugh when these came out. Metallicas fan base https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtvlUDn6iE

Satan and reefer madness compounds in cannabis...

wipe windows and install Linux on the machine.

Wooo moderated -1 Overrated by a content producer.

there wouldn't be any piracy so maybe the search engines should just block everything to do with Music/Movie entertainment.

I know LMDE is there and have used it before but they can still make it what Ubuntu Desktop should have been.

No we should all go to Linux Mint which will then make a minty fresh Debian version of what Ubuntu Desktop should have been by now,

wants more power to direct peoples lives for their own gain.

that say if your car is left unlocked and someone steal it/does something with it you can be charged with leaving it unlocked or get fined by the city

If they are stating that its the tip of the iceberg then seems they would say this if they want other nations or criminals to try and get their hands on it and hopefully kill Snowden in the attempt. This would clear their hand off Snowden and then it'll be much easier to kill that person/group or buy the files off them.