He didn't do anything wrong, it was just an old meme joke. William Bumbray used to make messages on TV aired during commercial breaks aimed mostly at kids, the "kids, don't do drugs" style so it has become folklore.

But what happens when the data centers get Slashdotted or when Taylor Swift publishes her new videos?

That was pretty obvious to me. A friend of mine systematically refuses to eat anything coming from the ocean for the same reasons.

Anyway, what else would state sponsored Chinese hackers do?

Indeed:

In other words, screw the power users, we make money with dumb users hence we prioritize dumb results to all your searches and ignore any modifiers which are only used by power users anyway.

Indeed, I would never force anybody to do anything, it's against my religion. So, I just cut their thumb off to access their phones.
-agent William Bumbray https://www.infocrimemontreal....

Good point, you can't imagine how much money I have spent on batteries over the years for UPS. I would never consider that an "investment" more like a cost of operation. I have solar and wind too to recharge the batteries but not enough to keep me going in the middle of the night when there is no wind and even then.

Anyway, in The Matrix, everything was done for much cheaper with human brains, maybe we should take note of that!

Of course they can do the same as basically stripping you of your so called rights like; getting insurance at a reasonable price if able to get any just to name one because apps have snitched on you. No government needed.

Anyway, I am getting sick of those FA about legislation against big tech, the majority coming from EU. I know I am a little selfish because big tech schemes don't really impact me. I must be dreaming out loud but I think money should be invested in education instead. Educated Internet users would quickly turn down all the big tech schemes and make them useless. I mean, if no data about yourself is there, what data would there be to buy? Educate users instead and make the data about users who don't care available to everybody so there is nothing to buy! But maybe governments think educating users would diminish their power so they rather keep themselves busy making legislation, who knows?

IMHO, on the contrary, I suspect it could be very different. See my other comment above:
https://slashdot.org/comments....

I take the $3.5 million figure with a grain of salt. I suspect it's a little like the amounts they state on drug charges. It probably costed less than $1 million in electricity charges, maybe even less than $500,000. The rest is only what they could have potentially charged at the maximum possible rate to their customers for using their gears.

Indeed, and nobody will ever need more than 64 bits!

Same old, same old:

After all those years, they still don't know that the content isn't on websites...

Makes me wonder who is backing up the archive, how many copies are there, geolocation, etc. ?