And in later testimony under threat of perjury "corrected" the perception they hard hard proof Russians extracted data from the server, backpedalling to "has the hallmark".

Not all of it in any case, the main flaw in timothy's argument. The vast bulk of TPB appears to be search driven, download what you already know. It's no surprise the system favours established artists. Usenet, in contrast, had finely grained per niche discussion tied to downloads. I stopped buying music soon after my ISP killed the binary groups for lack of exposure to new artists.

I use the DB2 on a microphone stand, antenna four feet off the ground, pointed out a patio door, ground floor into a two story courtyard, 150' down the back side of a hill fifteen miles from the transmitters and still pick up reliable signal. That is, however, directly into a television. Maybe PCI tuner cards aren't design for optimum sensitivity.
And yes, OTA digital look spectacular if source permits.

Not only do you force feed users a Microsoft extension, you piss them off about a third party & competitive application. Two business cases with one stone. I think it's brilliant.

They do on my keyboard.

'Public' schools, not private. The money returns to the common good. Same with gas taxes, they're not transferals to Exxon & Shell. That money too returns to the common public good. Music 'tax' is a transferal to private corporate entities. A more accurate analogy for your argument would be Bear Sterns.

Maybe. The FCC spent the last two administrations catering to every whim of broadcast media owners. Clear Channel wouldn't exist in its present form without their helping, deregulating hand. Broadcasters hate the extra fiscal burden of IP, so this may be a case in which consumers benefit as a side effect of catering to large corporation. Irrelevant but lucky.
How a federal body with an original mandate to regulate broadcast spectrum has any authority over IP law is another question.