well put in 3 lines!

thanks for dropping the mad research on this and posting the references!

The show trials reference was to "altered" trials in general. The Soviet show trials were engineered as disinformation campaigns, and were considered in their day to be of the highest priority to the FCD (First Chief Directorate). Would you not consider hiding a trial from mass public viewing a grave form of dis-information

What a load of BS. If it was John Q. Public trying to allow censorship of his case they would have laughed, but I guess the RIAA can do as they please. One would hope that simply the fact they were trying to ban the stream would show their tactics are shady as can be. The irony of the webcast is classic as well.

The overwhelming reaction is "this is great", but I don't think it is that simple. Look at the "Internet Tax". Again, now in California, the topic is surfacing and legislation is on the table. Mabye TWC just wanted to see the public's reaction on this one. Why would they release information about this only to quickly revert their intentions? Makes no sense if they were serious from jumpstreet.

Kudos to my favorite OS people for the reliability of their SMP code for sparc64. I can finally make use of all these servers! cpu0 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+ (rev 2.2) @ 1056 MHz cpu0: physical 32K instruction (32 b/l), 64K data (32 b/l), 8192K external (512 b/l) cpu1 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+ (rev 2.2) @ 1056 MHz cpu1: physical 32K instruction (32 b/l), 64K data (32 b/l), 8192K external (512 b/l) -a