I think all of this is merely a smokescreen to delay the inevitable. A few days ago the deadline for the EU's "Broadcasting sans Frontiers" law to come into force passed by. The implications of this were that the technologies such as IPTV which actually allow users outside the physical borders of the country in question to receive TV broadcasts online could no longer be blocked within the EU. In simple language, the BBC iPlayer is now supposed to work anywhere in the EU and for the BBC to prevent users outside the UK from using it is now against EU Law. I wonder if this would actually legitimise getting TV programs via P2P as that is actually enabling the EU Law rather than preventing it. That said, a glance at the UK TV schedules for the coming days shows that we're not really missing anything.

This has been around and in production for quite a while: http://www.rslsteeper.com/orthotics/orthotic-products/argo The website only shows a half body setup, I understand they also do a full body suit.

Surely they are not really talking about hackers here. The mass media hysteria and a few movies have a lot to answer for in elevating script kiddies and passing them off as "hackers".

Honestly and truthfully, piracy never really hurt the likes of Microsoft. Despite all the dodgy copies of Windows, William J Gates the Third Junior is one of the worlds wealthiest men and Microsoft is a huge Global Business. Sony benefited from piracy to get the Playstation into the market using by using a technology that allowed the disks to be copied as opposed to a cartridge that couldn't. Small companies have the most to lose from piracy in the early stages, yet piracy at some point has helped companies to get a bigger market share. It is all a question of balance, and lets face it, the distribution channels used by pirates are way more efficient than the "legal" ones. There are lessons to be learned by both sides of the argument. Were things not so damned expensive and a more realistic price charged, perhaps people would be more likely to buy.