Yea, but Spotify also controls a certain % of the market, which of course gives them something to put up against them. Granted, right now the record companies are most likely very much in charge, but one can always hope that will change (and Spotify won't turn all evil).

Not RIAA, but some of the large record companies do own a part of Spotify. However, they don't own even close to 51%, so they don't control it.

Commenting before you RTFA should be illegal. Also, writing ambiguous summaries should be illegal. As I responded to someone else I thought it had been made illegal to use your data plan in ways that hinder the carrier from making money. Cynical as I am, it wouldn't surprise me if it was made illegal soon as it's already in most EULAs (where I live anyway).

Well, that will teach me always to RTFA before i write a comment... I thought VoIP and text messaging apps were illegal in the Netherlands (damn ambiguity). Anyway, in Sweden using your data connection for VoIP is against the EULA in all carriers I know of so I figured it could very well be illegal in the Netherlands.

...but in this case KPN is actually fully authorized to do that (unless DPI is illegal in the Netherlands). After all, the customers who are hit with the extra costs are actually doing something illegal, and they could just as well be brought to court or otherwise penalized in some much worse way. Granted, it's a bad law for us consumers, but it's still a law - just as there are laws against piracy and RIAA/MPAA act upon those laws. KPN acts in a much more sensible way, and while I wish we could just get away with our smart solutions I think their way of doing it is a huge step up from what the others do.

That code is sent to your phone though, which is something you have (and there's presumably a short time window to use that code) => two-factor authentication.

It's most certainly authorized by the government and FB.

More like putting a steel door next to the regular one most people will still use.

Granted, the extra overhead will probably not matter much to him, and he definitely has something to hide (and knows the guys he hides it from has a lot of resources). I'd probably put on my tinfoil hat if I knew a country was spending millions and millions of dollars every month looking for me, and then 4096 bits RSA would probably not seem as overkill as it seems now. So I guess he could very well use that level of encryption, in which case (if he hasn't messed up) the NSA won't be able to crack it.

Even if you somehow synchronized all the hardware in the world with no overhead you wouldn't be able to crack 4096 bits RSA within reasonable time. Unless the NSA has some algorithms they haven't told the world about (frankly it wouldn't be all too surprising) it's not going to happen. However, I doubt Bin Laden used such crazy encryption.

Risking some serious flamebait-modding here, but evil is a subjective term and the members of Al Queda probably don't consider themselves evil. Even the most noble organization imaginable can be considered evil by someone, and very few consider themselves actually evil. Considering how much the members of Al Queda obviously believe in what they do, they are likely fighting "team evil" themselves.

In unrelated news, this method of thinking shines new light on Google's slogan.

Risking some serious flamebait-modding here, I just want to remind you and others that Al-Qaeda is (most likely) NOT team evil in their own eyes. Evil is a subjective term; even the most kind organization imaginable is team evil in somebodies eyes. And since their members obviously really believe in what they're doing, their targets are probably their team evil.