Except if the contention is that it wasn't taken down under the DMCA rules, then there is no obligation to restore it upon receipt of a valid counter-notice.

And this would make UMG immune under the penalty provisions of the DMCA for taking down fair use and non-owned content.

The really funny thing here -- lawyers, are you listening -- is that while UMG says that this wasn't done pursuant to the DMCA, they still attached a name to the takedown order. Why would they do that if it wasn't DMCA?

Yes, the man who founded the largest corporation in the world would have been a significant candidate. Especially as opposed to unwashed hippies kvetching about how society just won't give them everything that they want. Jobs himself has a rather counter-culture background, but at least he worked for his riches. That I can admire.

It's a crock, but who thinks that Time is still relevant anyway?

On my last DVD rental return (I don't use the streaming service due to the much lower quality of the stream, no extra features, and the fact that when I did try it the streaming versions were sometimes markedly inferior in content -- one movie, for example, was missing nearly 20 minutes of what was on the rental DVD) Netflix acknowledged my return, but then didn't send out my next DVD for an entire day. When you're on the 1-at-a-time plan, that is a significant hit.
 
Their explanation? When I called in I was told that the TOS allows them to only have to send the next DVD in a 1-to-3 day window. Furthermore, the only times in the past when they didn't get my next DVD out the same day as the returned one was received (they send e-mails when they receive the returned DVD so I knew that they had it), they sent me a +1 bonus disc to make up for the loss in rental time. NO LONGER. I was told that the supervisor would not approve it and the guy in customer service actually told me that it had been A MISTAKE that this had ever been done in the past.
 
Fine, Netflix is losing money now, not my fault. Keep this up and they'll be losing even more customers who remember when their service was much better than it appears to be now.

So how does this bode for the cloud computing services? Rather than try to buy another external backup drive, I'm now looking more seriously into the cloud for those needs myself.

So where is Anonymous when you really need them.

So yes, it sounds slimy, AND YET, it's MY browser and I should be the one who decides which ads, if any, that I care to view.

It's not that I want to hide the ads -- well I do want to hide the annoying ones that suddenly start playing sound, or distract me with animations that catch the eye, and especially ones that overly what I went to the site to see in the first place -- but I want to remove everything from my browsing experience that involves slowing it down by downloading more data than absolutely necessary. Unwanted ads add no information to the page and slow down the whole experience.

Wouldn't matter since Reader X crashes on every XP system I've tried it on. That leaves me with Reader 9, and I don't really care to hear any comments about why I shouldn't be on XP. It's not dead or out of support yet and I have my reasons to still be running it.

My question is: after all of these years, why can't Adobe write a secure version of reader. I mean it's just one program to do basically one simple enough thing. Are they too busy on new development to actually fix their existing product?

There have been a lot of nice and informative comments to this point about the various facets and symptoms of the problem, but here is the problem itself: Corporate Attitudes.

1: Companies don't give you time to write peer-reviewed documentation because that doesn't contribute to Time To Market and overall productivity.

2: Companies seldom ask you to train your replacement in the I.T. world because they don't want you around once you realize that you're about to be laid off/fired. Who in I.T. hasn't had the experience yet of being marched off the property under the watchful eye of somebody (I've had it done where they guy actually carried a gun) within an hour of being told that you don't work here any longer. You find that you passwords were disabled during your 15 minute (at most) exit interview and given a box to clean out your work-area under guard.

3: Most importantly, the corporate belief is that nobody is indispensable, and they're willing to prove it with you no matter how much you know that no one else does because the more senior that you were, the less anyone else was watching over what you did in the first place.

In short, you're gone and they simply don't appreciate or value what they lost with you. And find this far more prevalent in I.T. than in most other areas.

The flip-side is that you've probably also been hired at least once to pick up and complete an undocumented project of someone else that they previously let go. Isn't that fun?

Treknobabble.

I'm waiting for the magical, life-changing element #125, that should either be called Protonite, or Magicium -- because it will be.

Well, I have a college degree in Computer Science and I figured that out a long time ago, as well as just how much I despise just abut everything Apple out there -- starting with Job's iArrogance. I have no Apple products in my life and never had.

What would it take to get Apple into my life? You'd probably have to give it to me for free, and that includes free of any monthly subscription charges. I didn't go to college to become stupid.

Wouldn't the fact that they were smart enough to no longer be working for Zynga count somewhat in their favor?