.......But now the dog rings...

I agree that we are paying way, way, way, too much for bandwidth and media in all forms. If you need a contract or there is fine print in the deal, its a rip off, and I refuse to do business that way if I can avoid it.... so thanks for the research on plans that compete with dominant premium market. I'm tired of paying for their advertising and double talk, and your info helps. Thanks.. .

Oops.....We just Hacked Ourselves, destroyed our own prosperity, and captured our own freedom. Now that's a victory for self defeat.

What a jip....I can't see the small pieces...

The US military superiority complex overlooks effective tactics in chess game of a post-soviet cold war space program.

An anti-counter-missile-assault-defense testing propaganda free press strategy that masquerades as a failure of Russian technology.

The "Bay of Possums" or Sputtering Sputnik Space Race

Public opinion trumps corporate greed in boardrooms while dollars trumps private votes in the Capitol.

A Corporate Democracy or Capitol Hypocrisy?

.....AT&T Oligarchs instead resort to an Iron curtain and fear driven domination over QUAL-COMMIES.

The market will correct itself after the hype wears off consumer consciousness. Now they just are overpriced inventory like before speculation stimulated sales squeezed the flow down stream of actual flood effects. Take me to the River...

....Or else he might look like an idiot.

....I'm just sayin'...

.....lets give him a big hand.....

Mayor Mayor Dennis Donohue and city Economic Development Director Jeff Weir hoped that this investment would attract green industry to Salinas. Salinas wants to be more than agriculture, and green industry is the current buzz. Unfortunately, the green money that cities must manage has begun to disappear. Money makes the green go around but without it growing lettuce seems more sensible and reliable. Salinas will survive, even if the economy leaves us all feeling green, lettuce continues to grow...

White noise helps me sleep too...

I guess profiting from those who fence stolen property is not a disqualification.

Absolutely right, N0Man74. You see it the way it has always seemed to me, all along.

This is clearly how it functions for most intelligent, regular, broadband users. These have been the apparent facts for twenty years. Free markets are supposed to self regulate by responding to demand. But its far more lucrative to attempt to regulate markets and limit the options of the people. If the product is has a poor value, but corporate monopolies dictate access to that market, its laws, technology, and access, then we the consumer all ultimately wind up with a crappy value.
I recall when TV was free and if you paid for cable you received many commercial free channels of programming 24/7. Now I pay 10 times more than I ever dreamed for 10 times the channels, but I get commercials on every channel, and a smaller rotation of content. I pay more and get less because I only have one cable provider, and they just bought NBC, which owns several cable stations that together produce a significant chunk of the content Not only do we allow the elimination of free market competition within a particular industry segment, we permit that engorged parasite to begin dominating adjacent industries. How does ABC compete with NBC when NBC is Comcast and ABC has no transmitter in my market now? Its terrible for the consumer and free market capitalism. Its great for corporate dominance of hijacked markets. Its the way things are, for sure, but eliminating all piracy will never make their over priced shit worth buying. The market can't be regulated punitively, unless of coarse, consumers have no real options or freedom. Its this moral outrage that incites "piracy", not any real value in the media, but rather a disrespect and disdain for the market options . If nobody wants to buy your crap, then it should just disappear and be replaced by whatever the market demands. I would never pay for any of it, and I don't care if I can't demo it. But if producers can't generate sales, then I guess the next best tactic is to let the media be easily tracked and exchanged, and then threaten lawsuits. That way no residuals need to be paid, losses can be trumped up, and content mediocrity wins market dominance, just like the crappy cable infomercials that override my content program access that I once purchased.

Piracy, unfortunately doesn't benefit anyone well enough, or hurt the corporate oligarchies that spew them, nearly enough to make them stop or make any improvements. Would that were true, then at least there would be some real sense of value or consequence of these inconsequential "crimes" of indifference. But honestly, I never find any real value in any down loadable media of any kind. I just don't need it or really care to take the time to pay attention to it. I never use 99%. Its just like clicking through all of those cable channels you never watch anyway, even though you bought them, like it or not. Its there, but you can't eat everything on a menu, even if its all available to you. The value of all of it is just not that high when most people in the economy can barely get buy, and the stuff that really matters can't be routinely forgotten on a hard drive.