What kind of BS is this? Muslims, dissidents, executed by drones? :)

It's a Russian's goverment foreign propaganda arm, so it usually tries to shoot down Western views on Syria, Egypt, Libya - you name it. But this news bit seems to be legit. This is definitely screwed up situation. I hope that company gets it's lesson well.

Strange. Because it works for me :)

Cheero, and don't let the hate enjoy free desktop :) Use what your poison is (mine is truly GNOME Shell) and be happy.

iTunes is explict monopoly in this field, and available only in selected countries. Even where it is available there is no full service - in some countries everything is very expensive even in iTunes, in most countries you can't buy newest stuff, and you can't buy tv episodes.

I wouldn't call it exactly a choice. However, I'm planning to buy 21 and Wasting Light in it, as (finally) I can do it legally in my country.

I really enjoy rights of free speech, and I will get modded down for this, but I will say:
ENOUGH WITH THIS - "BUT..BUT...BUT US IS NO BETTER!" - BULLSHIT. It is childish to insist to push your message like this and you know it - but still doing it. And no, you won't get death row because you will say something awfully bad about Jesus or Maria or God in US.

So get a grip, really. One think is constructive criticism of capitalism (or social, or whatever) system of US, but something totally different from outright comparing US with Saudi Arabia where they perform death penalty by sword. And for reasons like this.

Again have to repeat this - Estonia haven't even signed yet, and they are quite serious have good discussion about ACTA.

I know it's boring to mention countries where government actually work for people, but come on :)

You really *don't* have a fucking clue what's going on in Russia, do you? Completely empty buzzword comparison. While of course it's oligarchy, however it is totally different in execution.

Believe me, what's going on with Capitalism in US and the world is bad enough on their own. There's no need to attach it to to every criticism on Russia :)

Why on every criticism on Russia there's usual comparing with US? In this case, heaviest astroturfing from Microsoft pales from organizational level of Kremlin "web force". These guys are full time, full convinced that they are doing right job, not some bored PR guys playing "casual users".

....Ohhh, nevermind :)

This is actually non-news. Everyone with long enough experience with web for last four years have seen them at almost any article or resource giving Russia, Soviet Union or Kremlin bad rep. Wikipedia articles about USSR or about Bolshevist crimes - those pages have experienced heavy shelling from these guys. They are obsessed with pointing that you are wrong, not they.

I don't even care about them anymore. I'm just sad that such big country and yet they are living in paranoia, investing almost nothing in infrastructure, but in same time waste their money to play hardliners and allow people to die (yeah, about Syria), and meddling with politics in their neighborhood countries. You can't get your respect in such way.

Nothing really more to say, haven't followed this one that closely, but as I read in ArsTechnica ReDigi have made sure that their system is according to (their interpretation) of the law, which is still much higher level than Megaupload.

This case also will be really interesting, because it clashes author rights to control distribution of copyrighted work and first sale doctorine. And juge seems to be sane so whatever his decision will be I will treat with respect.