I stream everything, I used to store local copies and stream for a file server, however I have moved to Netflix and cable station provided content, add unblock-us to get around the geofencing I don't feel the need for cable nor to access content the old ways.

It isn't just the US that does this, here in Canada we deal with the same crap. If you end up in university you are doomed to be in debt for the rest of your life. Personally I went to college, and yes I am working in my field, however over 90% of the people that graduated with me ended up not getting a job and went to back to school or ended up in a dead end job just to make the bills.

Have fun with Enmax, their stability record is pretty awesome. Try getting any kind of service on a weekend, their noc number on the weekends goes to a pager and they will call you back within the hour. I deal with them so often it isn't funny. And watch out, they contract out the last mile in many of their build out. Their like using telus and shaw and the best, they won't tell you.

You don't pay big money to IBM for uptime, all IBM does now is resell other companies and take a share of the money. And become a middle man.

Well considering he did rip the music and dump it into a file sharing program does make you think he might have been trying to allow for sharing of these files. However after thinking about it, how many of these programs offer a media player aspect? A lot of them do, and I remember back in college how many people would be using Kazaa as their media player. One could say that he was on the understanding that if he places all his music in the My Shared Folder, it all shows up in Kazaa and he can then listen to it all. Not really much of a reach at all consider we are talking about Joe Six Pack here.