...that computer programming skills often do not go hand-in-hand with critical thinking skills, perspective, or even the most basic grounding in the real world.

They *are* written into the law. Enjoy ignorance, friend.

a bunch of twerps who understand neither business nor justice nor the law make complain bitterly about something that makes perfect sense because it does not fit their idiotic, narrow-minded /. worldview -- which can be summed up "everybody owes me everything I want, and I don't owe anyone anything".

As a lawyer and avid techie who's been reading /. since its inception, I'm always pleased to find a Slashdotter with a low UID who expresses at least some faith in the idea that sometimes people must be arrested for stuff.

It "must always be legal to circumvent DRM"? And copyright terms should be slashed by 70%? No thx.

I wonder if the comparatively weak global demand for any entertainment media coming out of the EU helps explain the hostility to American IP principles? :)

this is terrible

Unsurprisingly, this does not seem to have raised any eyebrows among perceptive slashdot readers :)

Seriously, are there any redeeming qualities or are people just lining up to buy a pile of crap?

They've been stored for two decades in a carefully climate-controlled environment.

(The climate is controlled by God, and is generally referred to as "Florida".)

I logged in just to write that subject line.

The executive branch is tasked with prosecuting all federal criminal and civil cases on behalf of the United States.

You're an ignorant moron.

All that shows is that they HAVE a superior bargaining position.. you didn't need to show that. Anyone would admit that Sony the megacorporation has vastly superior bargaining power over Joe Gamerdude.

Having the superior bargaining power doesn't mean, all by itself, that Sony isn't allowed to require new Terms of Service in order to use PSN. They have to trick you into something unfair. Only problem is, (1) they're not tricking you, and (2) it's not unfair.

Since they're warning you right up front about the new requirement, they're not tricking you.

Since they openly tell you that you DON'T HAVE TO AGREE to the new requirement, it's not unfair.

â"Legal.Troll (yay, this is the one post per day that I'm allowed to make!)

You can opt out of the waiver for the price of a stamp.

But that would be less fun than calling the wahhhhmbulance.

Please, please: This is a Slashdot Freestyle Uninformed Rant About the Way the Government is Handling Things I Know Nothing About (TM). Do not trouble the wildlife with pesky facts or troubling suggestions that anyone in the world other than Slashdot geeks could be trusted to perform a task without the input of Slashdot geeks.

They have jobs, you freaking moron. Do you think it's easy making money in the music business? Do you think it doesn't involve hard work? Perhaps you also think that being a professional musician would be as simple as recording a garage album and then kicking back while members of the public send you checks for millions of dollars -- if only it weren't for those greedy fatcat record labels that provide no worthwhile or necessary services and do nothing but leech?

There seems to be a lot of ignorance packed into that nine-word sentence you typed.