Stella Artois is a french brand, and well, i'm french (sorry 'bout that, at the time, i had no say in the matter :P ). So you can trust me if i tell you that this beer is nowhere near "cool" (and even a good fridge won't do anything about it :) ) ..
You may call it "piss" or any other weird name you can think of, but "cool" does not apply... never... i swear...

1) Direct download starts immediately and does not require others doing the same download to be more effective (all the contrary, in fact)
2) Direct Download does not require Mister I-Am-Not-A-Geek to fiddle with router or firewall configuration, opening ports and so on
3) Direct Download can go through your enterprise http proxy

yeah, i know that. The point is, that if tha law has taken shortcuts to catch someone to blame, there may be position where you can't really secure your access no matter what. Knowing that, i personnally would consider the law un-applicable.
Not to mention the obligation to use WEP secured (hum) wifi to be able to connect a nintendo DS, for instance...

150k IPs a day does not mean they'll have 150k new IP each day. I'd rather bet it's the same old IPs from download going from one day to another (hey, those divx are HUGE ;-) ).

Besides, not everyone goes emule or p2p. So, they won't have everyone listed.

Just 2 more things to tell about it :
1) The main effect of this is that everyone wanting to keep on with their illegal activities will jump on the foreing VPN provider. That will cost them, but "hey, now i'm paying 10 bucks a month, i'll have no remorse downloading tons of those illegal material". i'd rather say it'll give money to those private provider and finally tears people that were buying to the cartels from time to time (for the price of a spotify account, i can now have films, music and warez, without being annoyed...)
2) Every other ISP in France offer a free bandwidth sharing for the people within the same ISP circle. I.e. say i'm a ISP A client, i can connect to wifi hotspots everywhere ISP A has a client with a box up and running. Point is : who is to know it was me or somebody in the street using my internet access ? (but maybe this is biaised and ISP have a mean to know)

my .2 french cents of euro

Well i guess the US postal service does not have to cover any cow field here and there and concentrate on where people actually lives. The distances are stretched, yes, but the 8 multiplicator is misleading.
For instance, austin and houston metro only are about the third of the state population (around 7,5 Millions according to wikipedia).

Well, you're leaning to the "computer can do it for myself" track. That's something i can't buy and quite a dangerous trend that get some hypes here and there.
Don't misunderstand me, they are things computer are good at (better than people), and things computer are just not suitable for (or shouldn't be used for).

If this stuff is just used to help people being even more lazy and behaves on "autopilot" like getting messages such as "Stop drinking so much booze", "it's time to go to bed", "you've been sit too much, go take a walk" (that's about what you propose). Well i'm definitely not for it. I once had a mum and dad looking up for such things, but i'm now past age. My remark is about having people acting adult and having responsible behavior. You are NO SHEEP.

If this is about improving the way computer behaves with people (Alt+Enter is not what your grandpa thinks about when looking at the holiday video you posted), in a way which means "keyboard and mouse are outdated, let's see how we can extend", well, that can be interesting (and more natural by the way : you don't need a keyboard or a mouse to communicate with real persons, after all. So, if we can avoid it with computer...).

I also had hard time for the 1st 45 minutes of avatar, trying to watch the nice environment in the background. Then i got picked up by the main action and the head aches disappeared : i was focusing on the same point as the camera.
Conclusion : with 3D films, you have to watch where the camera focused...

For the 3D feature in itself, i'd say it's not that bad (even if not deserving the extra price.. and here it's 2€, which is 30% more expensive than 2$, hey !! ;-) ). It's just the theater screen looks too small for real immersion : you really feel the borders.
And for that reason i'd say that 3D flat screen TV will fail (not to mention the real interest of having the guy from "the price is right" in 3 D in your room ;-) ?? Duh !).

Actually, i possess a dlna-enabled tv, and half my video library won't play for codec reasons. Now, if i could get a full screen vlc in this...