They probably won't change the name because they've been tremendously successful politically with this name.

The reason that they're named The Pirate Bay is because in 2001 the entertainment industry set up something called 'The Anti-Pirate Bureau". In response activists set up "The Pirate-Bureau" and later "The Pirate Bay" as well as "The Pirate Party".

They've been so successful at taking over this word that the Anti-Pirate Bureau recently had to give up and change their name to 'The Rights Alliance" because being anti-pirate doesn't work politically.

Doesn't Steam hook into Metacritic? Just rate all the games over there.

The point is that it doesn't make them better bankers. Specifically a psychopathic banker will instead of help you make more money, help your money get into his pocket.

The problem isn't their attraction to money, it's their medical inability to give a shit about anyone else.

You already mention the solution, why be silly about it? Just watermark the images and hand them out as jpegs, not photoshop files.

You could obviously watermark each individual layer if you wanted to give the photoshop files, but why would you want to do that?

As far as I can tell, LTE patents were never made FRAND, and it's unlikely that the telecommunications industry will do FRAND again. Apple pissed in the FRAND pool and now noone is interested in being friendly anymore.

Indeed. This is not particularly surprising.

However the solution is fairly simple, you just get some registered organisation to sponsor the project.

The feds won't come after him, 30 days or otherwise, because as far as they are concerned, bitcoins are not money.

It goes the other way around. "Oh, so you're doing transactions for more then $1000? We'll shut you down then".

Well, they'd rather not get raided by the IRS. I don't think I blame them, I wouldn't want to get raided by the IRS either.

The reason that we force people to have insurance is because they don't have the money to pay the damages, and the damages have to be paid, how else is the motorcyclist supposed to get his medical care and compensation?

How exactly is getting 50% of your income for the next 30 years going to help the motorcyclist family if your income is 0? And how exactly is it going to help them pay to get all their damages restored right now?

The typical case is that you have dissident against Country A hiding in Country B's embassy.

In this case you have a dissident against Country A hiding from criminal charges from Country B while living in Country C and hiding in Country D's embassy.

I don't think anyone would have a problem with it if he was at the Ecuadorian embassy in the US, then you'd have a textbook case of political asylum.

The 72 hours to leave are for when your status is revoked, not when you were never granted the status in the first place. You'll note that diplomats always get their status -before- they arrive in the host country, not after.

You'll note that all legal experts unanimously agree that there's no legal way for Assange to get out of the UK except possibly as the Ecuadorian UN Ambassador. Not even a diplomatic car can get him out, although if they thought he could survive in a diplomatic mail bag....

You'll note that the Libyan Embassy event happened 1984 and they wrote the law that allows them to do this in 1987?

Generally, international custom considers it ok for Embassies to hold POLITICAL criminals in safety.

Generally, international custom DOES NOT CONSIDER IT OK for Embassies to hold COMMON criminals in safety.

It's actually a lot easier to justify raiding the embassy for a random douche-bag then a political dissident.

That's not how they work though.

Sweden can give MOU's about how they will treat Assange, that he'll get all his human rights etc.

Sweden can't give MOU's about how they handle extradition requests from other parties.