So if poor people were paid more generously and hence paid more taxes, rich people wouldn't have to pay so much tax!!

There's an increasing amount of content that you can't view without DRM support

I don't want that content if it is ruined by DRM.

and there is a movement afoot in the news world to investigate DRM for protecting online news content.

They are a bunch of twisting lying agenda driven scumbags who concentrate on crime and terrorism far too much anyway, let them destroy themselves with DRM and perhaps something better will emerge.

Bright argues that if HTML5 does not support DRM, then content providers will move their content away from open standards and implement it with native apps

Good, they can take their crap and stick it where I don't want it because if it's DRM'ed then I don't want it, so keep the DRM the hell away from my browser.

DRM is an insidious evil that does nothing but treat you like a thief, it stops all kinds of disability plugins from working, it stops your fair use rights, it breaks everything, you might find that because some driver doesn't work perfectly that you can't view content you paid for, or you may find that you can't legitimately copy something when you have the fair use right to. Even an action as simple as highlighting a couple of words and copying them to search about them may be removed. And the huge irony will be that this won't stop the pirates, it will only prevent paying users.

Sincerely, keep this out of HTML5, it just doesn't belong in a free web. If someone want's to write some proprietary thing to screw their customers then let them do that, but don't go forcing this stuff on everyone else so easily.

Precisely, please mod parent up.

Not just file-sharing.

Try posting a message on a forum, you won't be able to because your IP address will be banned, because one person in thousands said something someone didn't like.

A good VPN nicely bypasses all this kind of crap.

Ditto

And why do the online and offline shops insist on cluttering up my shelves with material rubbish anyway, since no-one else can use it, they might as well just email me a code for my rental.

Oh and,
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-05/every-six-hours-nsa-gathers-much-data-stored-entire-library-congress

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/worlds-1st-exabyte-storage-system/1266

All US telephone conversations per day approx: 1.5 Petabytes

Fits easily.

Room for 2 years worth, or are you going to tell me US govt 3-letter agencies don't spend much on data centers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

Eh? No, it wouldn't.

When you're driving you should be concentrating on driving, that's it, anything else can lead to an accident because your mind is not on the task at hand.

So, no, you shouldn't be pissing about sending texts, if you don't like it, get a bus/train where you can text to your hearts delight.

If you're so f**kin important that you need to text, then get a chauffeur.

Sainsburys UK, delivered groceries at 8pm including £3 worth of chicken which was supposed to be eaton that day, had to bin it grrrrrrr

And next up, GMO security guard trees which moo loudly when strangers pass.

Try posting a link that isn't behind a walled garden / is an advert for the company.