well thats interesting

Even more people are going to pirate movies instead of going to the theater simply because they want a plain 2D version so they don't get a horrible headache after viewing it.

Also added to the usual reasons of why people avoid theaters if they can: can take breaks whenever, watch at whatever time they like, on whatever gear they have/can afford, no annoyances like loud or tall people, and a better selection of snacks and drinks.

Call me when all this actually serves some purpose...

So far all I have seen from LHC is a boatload of data noise and computers crunching thru it all in the hopes of making sense of... randomness...

Don't need LHC to create random bytes...

All the points raised in the comments have already been adressed in France with the debates around HADOPI.

The burden will be on the user to prove he is NOT guilty.

IPs seems to far to be picked at random (amongst french IPs on torrent trackers) by a company called TMG; some gross mismatch have been detected, including strangely enough internal IPs... which shows a high level of incompetence.

The cost will be paid by ISPs, they will raise prices (like they did here)

Next step (in france at least) is to have "voluntary" filtering enabled. A log is kept on your ISP-mandated modem/router of your connections so you can "prove" you are not "guilty". Of course if you refuse this filtering to be enabled you are deemed guilty by default

Some other goals are: filtering direct download sites and VPNs; some people, who might actually be tinfoil-lovers, claim they will also ban SSH on "consumer" grade connections and require a "business" grade connection to get SSH working again. This would be disastrous for the economy here as more and more people work from home using VPNs and SSH.. but it seems the government can't put 2 and 2 together. To them internet is a media consumption network with only 1 way data flow.

HADOPI is already having disastrous consequences for french hosting companies because people don't trust having their machines on such a crippled network.

VPN sales in other countries are surging, of course.

So brace yourselves UK if you government is looking to copy HADOPI this is what is in store for you.

I'd settle for this if and only if I am assured my openvpn traffic goes thru as normal and if I pay LESS than I currently do.

In France, I currently pay 33 euros for 15 mbit adsl, phone (+ TV but that i dont give a flying.... about) on a dynamic ipv4, i'd settle for a global nat'd ipv4 and free phone (no TV) and the same speed (up and down) for no more than 12 euros a month provided that openvpn works properly of course. Torrenting in France without going thru a VPN is a bad idea nowadays, so it doesn't really matter if your ports are reachable, just remote forward the vpn server ports.

You get a crippled network, you pay less.

Why bother invest in hardware + software (the blurays themselves) when you can just get the same thing for free from the pirate bay?

The home theatre thing has always astonished me, spend alot of $$$ for "surround" sound, a fancy "TV" (just a big and low res LCD monitor), a bluray/dvd player and then buy the disks now that you can finally watch them (this is of course ignoring buying gold plated HDCP cables and such joys).

A computer with a reasonable screen, headphones, an internet connection, im all set...

Glucose is necessary and not toxic.

Fructose / Corn syrup is horrible stuff, that doesn't get digested easily because it needs to be broken down to glucose by the body. Gives you the runs and makes you fart. Glucose doesn't.

Sweeteners? blah! all of them rubbish, even stuff like stervia (so called organic stuff) are just bullshit and potentially harmful.

Stick to basic glucose, it works, why change it?

As if economics were ever relevant to real life...
Time to grow up economics/AI autistic wizards, that's not quite how it actually works.

Paracetamol is the only thing that ever did anything to me.

Ibuprofen is worthless to me, it doesn't do anything but make my guts bleed.

When I think some idiots rave about how good ibuprofen is, to me it is quite junk.