Personally, I would have no ethical problem for anyone who paid for the content to just go ahead and pirate it. Sue me, I dare ya!

It’s always easier (and better) to write the same code a second time. You cannot lay claim to the IP in someone’s noggin.

Or perhaps his organs got donated and saved multiple lives or something.

Or his body was donated to science and useful that way.

This is what I wanted to see here. Thank you.

It’s a winding road but a good read of all kinds of shenanigans. Plenty of fun legal issues. Why Ronald has tolerated this problem for so long is a mystery. Just buy out Taylor’s contract and support your franchises!

Missed the opportunity to use “Brain Damage” instead

Now how many other State projects exist only to whip up support for other State-approved GroupThink?

Just mark government policy posts as ads, problem solved!

A two-digit checks in! You lived through the rise and fall of /.! I saw it, too.

Tell me, what was different about /.’s downfall?

Giddy up!

I wonder what Reddit's current shareholders think of that idea?

They are the ones driving this fight. The venture capital invested in Reddit has long soured and everyone is looking for the exit, and that demands an IPO at a good enough price to make whole, and preventing the most engaged users from bypassing ads is a prerequisite for a reasonable IPO valuation.

Get the UNIX sysadmin, the Web dev, the firewall engineer, the DBA, the telecom tech, and the mainframe system programmer all in the same room.

Now ask, “What’s a ‘session’?”

Plus cops don’t go to this level of trouble, they just tap what someone else did, maybe try to entice a target at the user level. Can one even cop to criminal copyright if they just leech?

Better eat that pimento loaf before it goes bad. Be a shame to throw it out.

The US is charging a corporation criminally? They can’t put them in jail, all they have is money but apparently that’s enough!

No, folks, I’m sorry. You charge the officers of the company criminally.

Having chips pulling double duty is one thing, like how the PC keyboard controller once also controlled access to protected mode (A20 gate).

This grows into all kinds of undefined functionality as all these components get consolidated into “chipset” chips. I’m certain the broader concern of chip-level vulnerability has already been with us for a long time.