or should the ISPs charge the royalty group for all the bandwidth they use because royalty groups failed to protect their content properly?

i wish them the best (and will sign up when i can) but i can't help but think this will fail hard. the vast majority of facebook users are not concerned with privacy, rather they actively seek to do away with it. they want to make sure each of their 700 friends knows every inconsequential detail of their daily lives; facebook provides them with the platform to do this, diaspora likely will not. diaspora may find a niche but i can't see it taking a significant dent out of facebook's market share.

half of the people posting here probably didn't read the article and are going off about google when all that is stored is the zoom level. how can anyone genuinely be concerned about this?

rather than the usual old billy borg, can we please use the following pic in the future for "bing" related stories? http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c80VLgi6U98/Ry8F5zaAKdI/AAAAAAAAABs/sq8bd5DQRXE/s200/chandler.jpg

I can't. I just deleted a crap load of .flac files after downloading the .mp3 versions and not being able to tell the difference while listening through some pretty decent headphones. I'd rather have a few more free gigabytes. 256 and 320 bitrate are great, 128 is another story.

Music comes in many forms, and different genres appeal to different people. Listen to some film soundtracks, and ambient music (Brian Eno) and you might find that quiet subtlety can be beautiful.

I can't see that being a major cost component. The accelerometer is in the Wii's controller, which alone retails for $49. This article on Tom's Hardware says that the Wii's manufacturing cost has actually gone down 45% since launch. http://www.tomsguide.com/us/nintendo-wii-price-drop-costs,news-3758.html

I don't know about that... Remember when the Wii was the "cheap" system? Now we have a $200 xbox and a $300 ps3, both half their original launch prices. But the Wii has actually gone up from $269 to $279 (inflation?). (Canadian prices) There's a reason the other guys are aggressively lowering their prices...

This is true, provided that you listen to Brittney Spears and the Jonas Brothers. Otherwise, the music industry does more harm than good. They provide no tangible service in this day and age. Those who know where to look have no trouble finding artists they enjoy listening to. The record companies will always be around to provide your polished pop princesses etc, but in time they will be relegated to a niche market. True, non-label artists won't rake in the cash like they would with a major label backing them, but when they receive 90% of the profits rather than 0.003%, I don't think the artists will complain.

you were never allowed to use that name in the first place. "youtube" is a trademark which is owned by someone other than you. having a godaddy account myself, i do recall in one of the guides, they clearly states that you can not incorporate an existing trademark into your domain name (ie www.cocacolacanada.com). makes sense to me. think of an original name this time rather than trying to borrow from other people's success.

if there IS a heightened rate of unauthorized downloading in canada, it's worth noting that shows and clips which are offered for free to US residents via streaming sites like nbc/disneys HULU.com and tv networks own webpages like mtv.com block canadian access to all content. that doesn't leave many alternatives for me if i want to watch a particular SNL clip etc... (the conspiracy theorist in me wonders if this is a tactic to push canadians to download in the hopes that the actual figures will approach their exaggerated figures). besides, is it really stealing when you are already giving it away?

the judge can't just rule what he believes is fair, he has to interpret the law and judge accordingly. copying a movie is illegal, just like recording a show off tv with a vcr, or recording a song off the radio. oh wait, those are legal, bad example. more like taking a picture of work of art, or photocopying a page out of a book for personal use. oh yeah.. those are legal too. i wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that every lawmaker is on the media company's payroll?