...hopefully this will be exhibit A for how SOPA could be used to violate the first amendment.

Oh. Really? ;)

My point wasn't regarding the politics. It was that Slashdot blatantly distorted the article to manufacture a sensationalist headline.

The closest it comes to describing what happened is: Israel had tracked the activists on social media sites, compiled a blacklist of more than 300 names and asked airlines to keep those on the list off flights to Israel. and "These people announced on their Internet sites that they planned to come here and cause

disruptions, and told their friends."

Sounds like they bragged in public, using their own names. And nothing more.

It's shit like this, Slashdot...

Sure. I get the need to own music. I've personally never felt a sense of ownership for my mp3 collection in anything close to the way I felt ownership of my CD's.

My point related to downloading music. Digital 'won' over physical because of convenience; and streaming (with offline caching) is far more convenient than downloading. It's just 'there' with zero wait.

Also, Spotify premium streams at 320kbps. AFAIK FM is 96kbps?

Premium has local storage. Works on all the major mobile and desktop OS'es.

Thought it was bigger than that! Insensitive clod is insensitive :)

Ah well... My point is still that, based on the speed at which Spotify is growing (where available), the future is streaming.

Everyone I know (in the EU) has switched to Spotify.

(This isn't a sales pitch, just a statement of fact :-P)

After those legal threats from Verizon, instead of backing down, they went straight out and registered VerizonShouldSpendMoreTimeFixingItsNetworkAndLessMoneyOnLawyers .com

Thin end of the wedge was kiddie porn. They're just thrusting (sorry!) it in further...

Read Castro's writings before you mod this comment down... Much of his ramblings sound like run of the mill Prison Planet paranoia.

The tone of the article suggests that the FCC's ability to maintain Net Neutrality is on life support. It appears as though Google have seen the writing on the wall and are trying to "stake ground" under what they probably see as a new business landscape.

FTA: "Microsoft's partners would be focusing on delivering devices with detachable keyboards and stylus input."

We already know what Steve Jobs thinks of this:

""It's too slow. If you need a stylus you have already failed."

He notes that Microsoft's version of the Tablet PC had the battery life, weight, and expense of a PC. "But the minute you throw a stylus out, and you have the precision of a finger, you can't use a PC OS. You have to create it from scratch.""

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

If you haven't already seen it.

You're assuming that the site's pages aren't served via a third party 'dumb' caching server, with the actual Drupal server locked down and disconnected from the internet.