Why? For the record, the Swedish PirateISP seems to do just fine. Granted, they only offer services to one city currently, but that city has one of the largest Swedish universities, along with all of its student dorms. Honestly, I don't see why it'd be 'foolish' to have a pirate ISP, they are not responsible for their customers. If anything they're sure to get them, being the only company offering 1Gbps/1Gbps fiber connections to households (for $80/month).

I was at the presentation in Berlin today. They did bring up this exact point.

Their counter argument was that people don't take into consideration that the console did support homebrew until Sony declared they'd drop that. The argument for that action was they'd save money not having to support it for their then-new PS3 Slim models, which turned out to be bullshit after hackers discovered that the Slim (with some hacking) could actually run the same Linux distros as the PS3 Fat. They then disabled OtherOS on the PS3 Fat, too.

This was 12 months ago (can't cite a source other than the slides), making it take only 12 months of actual effort for it to get cracked, as opposed to other (closed) platforms where the homebrew hacking efforts begin at day 0.

The obvious counter-argument from average (ignorant) Joe is that "well, the criminals encrypting their harddrives shouldn't be regarded as freedom fighters, they should be put into jail, and since I'm not a criminal I don't need to encrypt my stuff"

I suspect the bug here is that Word95 would free a random pointer when started from a desktop shortcut. From the leaked Win2K source code, in private\ntos\rtl\heap.c,

// The specific idiot in this case is Office95, which likes
// to free a random pointer when you start Word95 from a desktop
// shortcut.

Sigh...

... but it's 'Samsø.' And 'Søren Hermansen.'

Fair points which I certainly agree to. I rest my case, however: I will not let lobby organizations like the MPAA or RIAA have more power than any other company in the world. If they start acting like the police, some authority should stop them instead of making their lives easier.

Fight for your digital freedom, join the EFF *now*.

... how they're going to stay online. The service itself has to be hosted somewhere where they won't have too much hassle with the constant influx of copyright complaints. The *AA companies will then be able to kill two of birds with one (or the cardinality of the userbase with one stone) by just getting whatever details about IPREDator they need and taking them to court for their illegal downloading. We have to remember: while The Pirate Bay remains legal, the illegal downloading has always been, and I'm very interested in details as to how they keep this service running in any country if they claim responsibility of their users' actions.

Whew. Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays.