I hope that rather than $US, he is going to try to pay the registration fee in bitcoin.

In my experience, small companies are often more responsive in fixing things than large companies. Large companies often either have to go through lengthy bureaucratic change control processes or just take the attitude, "this is how we do things, if you do not like it then tough". While in smaller companies, the mechanisms for changing things are much simpler and they tend to value more the individual customer's business.

As long as they do not try patenting it as Audioscrobbler was doing this even before they were taken over by, and incorporated into, last.fm.

But in many cases it is obvious that if you want to do 'X' then you have to do A & B & C & D. In the past doing X may have been undesirable or impractical for reason 'Y' (which has nothing to with A through D). When this restriction/impediment is removed, just because nobody has done X before does not make the way of doing so any less obvious.

I must admit that I have never uploaded photos to facebook, but doesn't the user have to be logged in to upload photos? In which case take action against users who spam rather than banning the tool the user uses to upload to the site.

Why should facebook, or any other site, care what application is used to upload pictures? As long as the image is a supported format and within any size limits the site may impose, what difference does it make what application the user is using?

Had they included the Photo Credit information in the (digital) image's metadat, would it still have been a DMCA violation?

I think what you are missing is the timeliness of the data. If you stream then any temporary slowdown, pauses or retransmissions due to packet loss, have a detrimental effect on the viewing/listening. Bulk downloads do not suffer this. Also, it can help even out bandwidth utilisation as you do not have the 'problem' of some periods when lots of people are streaming and other periods when the 'pipes' are comparatively empty.

Who will be allowed to challenge the expertise of the members of the 'expert body'?

But with the EU directive on cookies, triggered by privacy concerns, will the EU then introduce a ban on the the use of browser fingerprinting?

As the guy who invented them (Terry Nation) died in 1997, the rights would be owned by his heirs. Or maybe the BBC themselves own the rights as the Daleks were created for a BBC show.

Or River. Did she not say in a past episode that the reason she is in prison is because she killed a very good man. We know that her timeline and the Doctor's are running in opposite directions, so maybe the Doctor is the man she killed.

However. if you have established a distinctive online identity, probably on multiple systems, and gained a (presumably positive) reputation with that identity, and one of those systems takes the identity from you and allocates it to someone else, could the recipient of the identity not be guilty of "passing off'"?

Also 'homeland' is a bit of a misnomer as the USA is a land of immigrant settlement (apart for those who used to called 'Red Indians'), so for each 'group' their homeland is where the settlers originally came from.

Not forgetting "Freedom of the Press". Should publishing web pages not be the modern day equivalent to the 'press' in the days when the 1st amendment was written. In those days the 'press' did not consist of multi-national media conglomerate (as it largely does today), but lots of small local Mon 'n' Pop outfits with printing presses.