Wow, that "Search anyways" button is REALLY hard to find, I can see how hard that must be for you.
The issue is that if you run that search from inside China, your access to Google gets blocked for around a minute. To try to help explain why to users, they pop that message up.
I have a handful of devices that only support WEP, so any router I buy needs to support it. I've created a second VAP for these that doesn't have access to my local network, and use MAC filtering, it's about my best option for them. They aren't on too often, so the chance that someone would catch one of their MACs while connected is fairly slim.
If I had to guess, they stick the movie in a drive, it fingerprints it (similar to CDDB or something), and then unlocks that movie in your Vudu/Ultraviolet account. It's not that hard to have the system check to see if it's on recordable media or not as well, which would skip over burned copies and most bootlegs.
I also believe that some of the tactics of the TSA are going too far for too little benefit... But are you seriously okay with hijackers destroying 10 fully loaded 747s a year?
Have you tried going to the link that was removed? It's throwing errors. They swapped out a broken link with a working one. I'm sure if Banshee fixes their jump page that Mint will swap in the old URL again.
They "killed" Stanza, but it's still available on the App Store... Also, you seriously think they had "sweetheart deals" with Barnes & Noble and Amazon to feature the direct competitors to their own iBooks?
I think you might live in a fantasy world.