This is clearly an attempt to enforce a US based copyright enforcement system worldwide.The bulk of online illicit activity are scams and copyright infringement. There's little the US government could gain from prosecution and extradition of scammers worldwide, but a great deal of revenue is lost due to copyright suits. Kim Dotcom was a heretical precedent case for this scenario. The FATCA tax act is also an attempt to gain control over foreign assets. All in the name of preempting a handful of terrorists?

We should all call in to obtain copies of our emails. Maybe even offer to typographically error correct them. But I wonder what would happen if everyone created fake suspicious emails to themselves and bombarded the NSA's systems? Would it become a "white noise" to the search algorithms?

It was all a distraction so they could lift her child's iPod Touch and steal her iPad out of her carry-on. "Look! She's resisting arrest! Quick...grab her purse and wallet." "Ma'am you're going to have to discard that juicebox and toothpaste. You know how many terrorists have tried to hijack our planes with explosive toothpaste tubes these days and threaten our flight crews with those sharp little bendy straws?!"

This film may have captured the scenario in a nutshell. They make an excellent point. The aliens may be getting the slowest delivery of a "gold-master" disc short of the BMG music service, but they could've been making mix-tapes of our pop-hits for decades now! Better call your lawyer Chewbacca, and cut that hair hippie! http://omg.yahoo.com/news/review-zero-fresh-clever-funny-182115042.html

Good lord, What if space aliens obtain this disc one day and rip it (Ogg Vorbis?) to some crazy god-forsaken interstellar file sharing network?!? (ie. The Pirate Space Docking Bay) What would we do?! Send out Cease and Desist letters via SETI?? What if they perceived this as a hostile act? We could end up in galactic war!!

Funny, John Stossel reported on this issue and noted all the BS bullying tactics the police use to sidestep the law, including the "dispersal", but it did not negate the fact they arrested someone on their own front lawn and property recording a police activity. This issue at hand is that they are public employees and on that basis they cannot be conducting "secret police" activities. This is prohibited in the Bill of Rights. When the press is involved, the police are most definitely compromising the Bill of Rights because the 4th estate is granted rights under from being censored and incarcerated illegally while reporting a public event. If videotaping or recording the police is illegal, then the recording is to be submitted as evidence in court and the police are committing the crime of destruction of evidence. Link to the Stossel video below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBiJB8YuDBQ

Maybe you've got something there. Could we reduce Windows to a read-only kernel?? I know its alot of code, but what if it existed on ROM and the vulnerability patches were stored in some sort of flash ram? Wouldnt the kernel being on ROM make it much harder for malware to damage it? The good ole Commodore 64 days had some merit. Nothing ever screwed up the OS.