"in fact the search engines and Facebook have hardly complied -- there are still search results and Facebook pages for this company"

The DMCA doesn't require that links to the company be removed - it requires that the service provider stop their distribution of a copyrighted work. From TFA, it sounds like only Facebook had a direct download link to the copyrighted work, and that they assisted in its removal. As someone else mentioned, to make the download completely unavailable you would need to send a DMCA notice to the hosting provider (Masterhost, according to RIPE) and hope that this Russian company respects U.S. copyright law.

Getting search engines to delist entire companies isn't really what the law is intended for, even if it sometimes succeeds.

And I present the following countering evidence to the idea that real names do anything to increase civility: http://imgur.com/ub51D

They're gonna have to release some movies that are so good I can't wait another month for. Here lately, they haven't managed that feat very often. Frankly I can count on one hand the # of movies released in the last year where another 28 days would really bother me.

Those movies I'll just pirate as soon as a good dvd rip is available anyway, it's rare even without the 28 day wait for a dvd rip not to beat the dvd release by several days.

Too bad gamecopyworld doesn't think there's any need for a crack for Mass Effect, simply because you don't need the DVD in the drive.

The sad thing is, before all of this started, I intended to buy Mass Effect (and Spore) as soon as they came out. At this point, though, I'm starting to not want to even deal with buying the game and hunting down a crack. I still play games I bought years ago - if people are already hitting activation problems with Mass Effect then there's no way I'm going to pay for it and end up with a useless disc after EA stops supporting it.

I don't run red lights, I don't "push" red lights, I'm never in such a hurry that I feel it's worth it. Also before I "take off" when my light turns green I take a just a split second to make SURE no one is running THEIR red light. On my way to taking my kid to school I have to go through, then come back through 2 NOTORIOUS red lights. People ALWAYS run these lights it's almost a given.

IF we had red light cameras, I'd be at 0 risk of getting a ticket, I simply don't run red lights. But I still HATE the thought of red light cameras. Where does it stop? Only -people- should be able to fine or imprison or in any way, negatively affect the population. What's next after red light cameras? Litter cameras? When does Robo-Cop hit the streets? I don't want some faceless automaton, be it a camera, or a robot, writing me a ticket. Maybe I'm just old fashioned, "stuck in the 1900s" perhaps, but unless a "person" catches me, it doesn't really count in my book.

And this coming from someone who never runs red lights, rarely ever speeds, and drives a truck that's likely older than a vast majority of the people posting (it's 22 years old).

some companies are already selling tickets to the space station if you like pre-ordering that kind of stuff