Actually, no it's not. Neither is it illegal or immoral to take one car and rebuild it, add a new engine, etc.

Except if that owner gets paid by the number of copies sold. Then, yes you are depriving the creator of sales.

That's my point, everyone want's to say..."No harm done, I didn't take anything, I just copied it." Well, yeah, but the owner get's paid by the number of copies. And unfortunately, most of the owners when you're talking writers, singers, etc. get paid little enough as it is!

I think the problem is most people see the big corporations which publish the item, not the guy behind the creation.

We're not talking FOOD here people or shelter or even lifesaving drugs. What's being debated is not a need but a want.

Warning..car analogy....
I can't afford a Porsche, but does that mean I have a right to take one?

If people stop buying something because it's too expensive, the maker either figures out how to make it cheaper or they go out of business. I'm not in love with the RIAA or MIAA because they're idiots who wasted time trying to shut down a perfectly good opportunity for years. TV Cable is now doing the same thing: Instead of realizing there is a market to see individual channels without all the crap ones, they're running around trying to shut down pirate signals.

But to turn around and blame the creator or those marketing the creation as being their fault that people are pirating is just BS. I mean lets just call it as it is. People want something for free, they justify it in their minds that it's not really stealing or hurting anyone, or that they deserve it, and they take it. Doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, from a developing nation or the richest one. I suspect a LOT of those practicing this are not the poorest people...after all they have a computer to run it on.

Steal or don't steal, but don't try to clean it up or blame the company you're taking it from.

The bad news it makes your dick shrink.

But is anyone even using these sites. How many of you never even heard of these sites until reading this article? And why do they need several sites--wouldn't one site suffice?

Actually BT would be fine. I meant "attach" as in connect, not in that it needs to be a physical vs. wireless connection.

Yes that's funny, but true too. I probably won't get a tablet until:

1) You can print to a wifi printer (I think some apps are starting to get there.)
2) You can attach a keyboard, preferably one that folds or rolls up. I can't see having to answer emails trying to type on that screen. My ColorNook has one of those on-screen keyboards and its the one thing I hate about it.
3) It costs significantly less than a comparable laptop. Other than weight (and the temporary coolness factor) why spend the same amount as you would on a really good (we're talking quad-core) laptop that can already do all the aforementioned? And you don't have to keep wiping the screen free of smudgy fingerprints.

And they were LAST to come out with the kinect after Wii and Sony already had theirs.

Windows = came out of after Apple (which, yes, came out after Xerox).
IE Browser = came out after Netscape. Remember they thought the internet was a fad.

But don't worry, they'll just buy out a company with the technology when they find they're behind again. (I don't think they will be able to squash this with the android and other operating systems running phones and other devices.)

No innovation going on in Redmond.

I think the problem with netbooks was they all seemed to require a 2 year internet subscription, so while the netbook was cheap, the 2 years worth of G3 fees (or whatever was bundled) added up.

Actually there is a way to predict an increase in your chances of having gall stones.

It's called the five F's

Forty - over forty
Fat - overweight
Female - your gender
Fertility - if you've had children
Family - if it runs in your family

The more of these conditions you meet, the more likely you'll get gall stones. With the exception of the weight there's not much you can do.

But where we disagree:

Yeah and why am I punished for having to shell out $1,400 to have a new hot water heater put in when mine broke? It's called shit happens. Some of us will get one thing, some another. There's almost no one comes out without having some health issue unless you just drop dead.

Obligatory: My name is Peggy... ;-)

I find it highly ironic that M$ has no problem using countries that commit the highest amount of piracy, i.e., China and India for LABOR, but wants to come back and sue a party NOT actually involved in the piracy of their product. Are they upset that other corporations are getting all the best slave labor?

And could we turn and sue Microsoft on the basis that they computers THEY use were likely manufactured by an Asian company that uses pirated software (of any type)? Because I'll bet 98% of ANYTHING manufactured in China and a large percentage in other Asian countries fits under that umbrella.

Well...being that we've given up on the space program we might as well go to hell....

Maybe it's just because MUSIC SUCKS these days. You can't give it away.

And get off my lawn!

The pilgrims coming to America certainly were religious. They also tried communism but it failed miserably.