It's possible that the jury instructions regarding prior art were misinterpreted but you are wrong about what was said in the post interviews. In the post interviews the foreman said that the jury was having trouble reaching consensus on one patent relating to prior art and decided to move on to deliberate easier patents. When they were done with those easier patents they returned to the difficult issue that they skipped earlier. This is standard behavior in jury deliberations and not against the jury instructions. The false belief that they completely skipped it is commonly posted here and probably stems from a series of erroneous and biased Groklaw articles that were posted on Slashdot in August.

The supreme court ruled that these laws are illegal when applied to mail and phone-order from out of state. The internet isn't a magic modifier to existing laws. New York also passed a similar law a few years ago and Newegg told the state to go fuck themselves. If a retailer has no physical presence in the state of California there is nothing the state can do to compel them to comply with the law.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bellas_Hess_v._Illinois
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2328647,00.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill_Corp._v._North_Dakota

So you don't download iTunes songs, don't watch Youtube videos, don't download Apps and don't listen to streaming audio? What about your phone data usage would you say qualifies as "pretty extensive"? I checked my iPhone data usage and I use about 1GB a month over the past year. I consider myself a light user because my data is consumed primarily by Email. If I actually used the advertised features of the phone it would be easy to exceed 2GB a month. For now I'm also happy to be saving $5 per month.

How about an analogy about what really happened?

a Porche is found sitting in a parking lot.
Someone looks in the car and tries to find the owner, no luck.
The person decides not to tell the parking lot attendent about his discovery
The person decides not to tell the police about his discovery
The person takes the Porche off the lot and parks it in his garage at home
The person calls an employee of the owner to tell them they have the car
The employee of the owner says the have no knowledge of the car
It gets hauled off and sold at auction.
The buyer from the auction strips the car down into individual parts possibly causing damage in the process
The buyer from the auction contacts the employee of the owners and offers to GIVE YOU THE CAR back without repaying them for what ever the paid at auction.

The employee still denys the car is his
The buyer from the auction posts pictures of the car parts on the internet and also brags that he knows who the real owner is but never bothers to contact him directly
The owner of the car reports it stolen to the police
The buyer of the car reassembles the car and returns it to the owner
The police execute a search warrant while investigating a report of a stolen car

Crimes: Grand Theft Auto. Possession of stolen goods. Bad analogies.

Quoted from http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20091019/BUSINESS/910191027/1036?Title=Fears-over-Toyota-s-runaway-cars

Or just arrive exactly on time for work each day. Or don't turn your computer off at night. These two suggestions work for me.

From the publishers point of view it does not matter. The great majority of games generate revenue at the time of sale only. It doesn't matter to the publisher if the buyers play the game for 5 hours or 50. The publisher sees each instance of this as a lost chance to make revenue. The only type of game where I could see this making a difference is a game that has a monthly fee, but these games don't have a piracy problem because they are server based like World of Warcraft and access can be easily controlled by the developers.

That fact is that for your average popular PC game 70-90% of the people who played the game at some time never bought a copy. I've read similar developer accounts for the last few years. It's the reason publishers feel they have to include restrictive DRM in their PC games. For whatever reason, the vast majority of PC gamers don't pay for their games and developers are beginning to notice and shift their focus over to the consoles e.g. Gears of War 2 was abandoned on the PC due to piracy concerns. Only games that use online authentication like Steam or niche games with an established fanbase stand a chance on the PC platform. Even Call of Duty 4 had 90% of the people playing it on the PC never buy a copy.

http://kotaku.com/5056532/why-no-gears-of-war-2-for-pc-well-piracy-for-one