My keyboard is being weird, probably omitted a few 0s when working with the calculations. Either way, it is still a mind boggling number of 1s and 0s. Wonder how long, in continual transfer, one would theoretically have to go to hit transfer of over a googolplex bits of information.

Roughly, assuming you can round it off to 53 weeks/year, if you do 1Petabyte/ear, and transferred that much constantly, that would be roughly 2887200000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 BITS [individual 1s or 0s] per year

Yeah, that only works in a perfect world - which this is not. People get stuff wrongly flagged, not always gettig it restored, companies abuse the DMCA blatantly w/o recourse.

yeah... All I hear is essentially "I don't like this for [reason]". That's not whining. Consult a dictionary next time, you'll look like kess of an ass.

I wear a fedoa going into / out of a bank at least 2 - 3 times a week - and I mean a rabbit fur fedora, not one of those douchebag-y cotton ones, or one off the good-looking-until-a-heavy-rainstorm wool fedoras, but real animal fur. Had no problems so far.

Um... he never suggested that. Try reading the post without whatever glasses turn "X and Y are not the same" into X is victimless because it isn't the same as Y"

That doesn't make a lick of sense. If not making the money you wanted to was theft, then people window shopping, seeing something they want and simply deciding not to buy it, or those who open up shop to compete legitimately with another would be theft. The fact is, that is absurd since you can't have money stolen from you that you don't even have, and not making money is not the same as having money you have taken from you.

Yes, because all creativity will screech to a halt if these laws were revoked, or more reasonably, overhauled to be more like they were originally intended *rolls eyes*

Maybe you gt troll because people consider the creation of a false hypocrisy, and using it to slam a group of people as if it were an intelligent point is trollish? Just a thought.

Sorta. Regardless of how shorthand things become, it doesn't quite work in the way where factually something wrong becomes acceptable without challenge or question.

Um... if you read it yourself, you'd see the reason copyright exists is to stimulate the progress of science and creativity by giving EXCLUSIVE CONTROL to the creator for a LIMITED TIME in which he or she does whatever he or she wants, and after which, it goes back to the public. It doesn't say anything more, or less.

Obviously less than you substantial == types of uses, not what % of people use X for use A, use B, or use C, jackass.

Um... copyright was meant to encourage creating by ensuring the artists had control for a limited time - absolute control to do whatever he or she wanted - nothing more, nothing less. Wish people would stop looking into things too deeply - but then again, I overanalyze the shit out of everything.

No service agreement can protect a company against defamation of character, or outright fraud - not saying those are applicable, but to act like a company SAYING it is final because it is in the agreement is rather ignorant, and devoid of acts. I don't argue that to fight is time consuming, tiring, difficult, and money draining, but that isn't exactly the same as impossible. :D

... you idiot.