It's not a privacy surcharge. It's perfectly possible to pay for an oyster card in cash, not register it. They can still track where you card has been, but depending on your level of paranoia you can get the deposit refunded regularly and get another.

You are right to the extent that you say you are not a lawyer, beyond that no.

and of course because of this all software sold in Finland is free of bugs.

It's the nature of paintings that you have to be there to see them, a photograph of a painting printed on paper or canvas, or, even less, reproduced on a screen is not the same thing at all, no matter how skilful or creative the photographer. That said, if you want to see a reproduction of the one of the NPG paintings you can visit their web site. They are making this level of access (and prints from their photographs) available to anyone. Their complaint is that they don't want other people making this offer.

In a sane world the compromise of licensing medium resolution versions under a CC attribution license would meet both parties needs increasing access to the pictures and traffic and revenue to the NPG.

Better not longer QA is needed.

Have you read this? It only covers people who have a Verisign issued certificate, and only against Verisign's errors, issuing a faulty certificate, incorrectly revoking a certificate or exposing Verisign's private keys. Don't see anywhere, that it would cover a consumer (or even a certificate owner) against a MITM attack like this.

Too hard for me. Where is the source code and what is the license? The downloads from https://forge.continuent.org/frs/?group_id=26 dont contain source and the svn repoistory svn://svn.forge.continuent.org/svnroot/treplicator does not work with my svn client or the browser link on the gforge page.