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Comment Re:Doesn't make sense (Score 1) 684

The reason is, on a PC you use up more bandwidth: you play MMOs , download movies, use p2p. So while you pay for 5g of data, you only use a fraction of it on the iphone and that's big money to them.

Plan: Make an app thet eats up all your allowed bandwidth (you input it) at the end of the month (it can add a calendar entry to remind you to run it that day) just by sending random data to places. We can set it up to find a legal torrent, store random chunks of it and then serve them. Open up as many connections as it can too and put the pinch on the ciscos at the other end. That way, you tethering prohibition ceases to be of an advantage to the carrier. If enough people use it.. Though I think it wins the "most likely to be blocked by AppStore" award.

Comment Plan for profit (Score 3, Interesting) 414

1) Make a site where everyone in Canada can karaoke into and sing whatever they want, or upload their garage band songs. however badly (bring on the Thrash yodling).
2) Have the EULA of the site say the uploader releases his revenue via the iPod Fee to the site.
3) Make said songs available for ipod download.
4) Go to the Canadian Private Copying Collectivem and demand the percentage of the fee your users represent.. if there are 10.000 artists and you have 10.000 users, you should get half.
5) Profit.

Comment Re:Stand drill (Score 1) 497

And then the guy who kept his porn in the disk comes along and goes "Nooo my preciousssssss. Nasty adminses stole it! Said datas were sensssitivesss. But I'll get you back, my precioussss."
Sorry, that south park episode is to blame.

Comment Re:Remember this is the UK (Score 1) 554

If they already knew the material was illegal with enough certainty they should have used that in court and never needed the encryption key. In the shed analogy, is there a separate offense to not give the key to the police, after they supply you with a warrant, in case they can't physically enter it? And I wonder what happens if you really don't HAVE the key any more, and in the analogy if someone actually forgets or on purpose destroys the encryption keys.

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