Ban radios, cellphones, microwaves, wireless phones and anything else that generates radio frequencies.

This is dumb beyond words. These are the people teaching our children? Could be fun in 20 years.

I was pretty pissed off when I found out my brand new (2004) dodge caravan wouldn't play burnt dvds.

I can hook up a $20 wal mart dvd player and get around that though.... stupid **AA rules.

Well said. No mod points today.

If you had the mental capacity to understand what was originally written, you would not have thrown a fit of verbal diarrhea.

I said that the search site (Filestube), which searches these file upload sites will be useless without the ability to allow anyone to download the files.

The other point that you could not comprehend was that fact that these services advertise their sites as a place to store personal backups.

But I digress, have fun in your mother's basement and let the adults continue to discuss the issue.

It's easy to spew venom as a coward isn't it.

If this type of service was only meant for personal backups and not illegal file sharing, this would have been the standard in the first place.

Why would anyone ever have to "share" backup files with anyone else.

I predict, within a week filestube and the like will be utterly useless and this facade (of legal file sharing)will be completely stopped just like Napster was.

If these sites can be shut down with lawsuits now, why do we need SOPA and PIPA?

That was my main point.. why would anyone ever put their confidential company files in the hands of such a shady organization? Just say no. Have people gotten so cheap and or lazy that they don't know how to use or won't use ftp anymore?

I can find no sane reason to ever use services like megaupload. It's a shame so many people had to learn this lesson the hard way, but then again, it's the same way with backups... no one does it until they lose everything the first time. Caveat emptor.

None of these "back-up" companies made any sense to me. Computers are so freaking cheap now. I have a file server in the garage. It automatically duplicates it's files every night to another drive. The drive is periodically backed up to a usb drive and stored in another building in a safe. Anything critical is also backed up on dvd.

Why in hell would I ever put anything important on some server that I don't have 24/7 access too?

The whole business model was derived from monkeys on crack. The ONLY point of these storage sites is to distribute illegal content. This will be entertaining watching these bozos and all their copy cats going to jail with ginormous fines.

The greatest irony in all of this is that even with the SOPA and PIPA delayed, the US still has the tools to deal with this issue.

I don't know who is dumber, the politicians or the idiots that dream up these copyright infringement sites?

I agree, the pc won't go anywhere. But, it would be nice to get all the people who are not capable of running a computer off the computers.

I'll be a complete computer snob here... iMac, iPod, iPad, iChat are all for people who are iChallenged. Most people aren't smart enough to run a computer. Within a couple months the machines are so spyware and virus infected they barely run. A walled garden will keep them out of trouble.

These people are not going to use Photoshop or code ever. Best to get them somewhere safe and maybe we can prolong the half life of a tech support worker.

No, that would be the parents that don't spend enough time or effort to raise their own kids. Some of these parents still use tech as a baby sitter or ship them off to day care.

My kids (I have 5) get an hour a day on the computer and maybe an hour later in the day in front of a TV.

I tried that... repeatedly.. still couldn't get the crappy games to run. Decided to take the path of least resistance.