I can't stress enough just how much I hate this new design.

True plus Bull Sharks are the only Shark species that can move between salt and fresh water so this story is entirely feasible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_shark#Freshwater_tolerance

You can't make an assumption of a files copyright status simply by looking at the filename or even the content. The songwriter Edwin Collins is often prevented from sharing his own music because of a belief that it MUST be a big companies "property".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/oct/06/edwyn-collins-sharing-music

What if I create a movie/song/ebook/document and want to share it but the filename makes it look "illegal"?

Surely the assumption must be innocent until proven guilty?

Incorrect, they only have chat logs between Manning and Lamo (the person who reported Manning). http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-chat/

From the FAQ

Those were the days....

This was covered last year in a BBC documentary; Oceans.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/oceans/locations/redsea/

and then they quickly reprogram the other

Why would it have to be quickly if they have a time machine? ;-)

Thank you for taking the time to contact the National Portrait Gallery. Please see below the Gallery's position statement: The National Portrait Gallery is very strongly committed to giving access to its Collection. In the past five years the Gallery has spent around £1 million digitising its Collection to make it widely available for study and enjoyment. We have so far made available on our website more than 60,000 digital images, which have attracted millions of users, and we believe this extensive programme is of great public benefit. The Gallery supports Wikipedia in its aim of making knowledge widely available and we would be happy for the site to use our low-resolution images, sufficient for most forms of public access, subject to safeguards. However, in March 2009 over 3000 high-resolution files were appropriated from the National Portrait Gallery website and published on Wikipedia without permission. The Gallery is very concerned that potential loss of licensing income from the high-resolution files threatens its ability to reinvest in its digitisation programme and so make further images available. It is one of the Gallery's primary purposes to make as much of the Collection available as possible for the public to view. Digitisation involves huge costs including research, cataloguing, conservation and highly-skilled photography. Images then need to be made available on the Gallery website as part of a structured and authoritative database. To date, Wikipedia has not responded to our requests to discuss the issue and so the National Portrait Gallery has been obliged to issue a lawyer's letter. The Gallery remains willing to enter into a dialogue with Wikipedia. This statement will be published on the National Portrait Gallery's website in due course. Once again, thank you for your feedback. I do hope that you will be able to visit the National Portrait Gallery both online (www.npg.org.uk - where visitors can freely view more than 60,000 low resolution digital images of works in the Collection) and in person in the near future. Yours sincerely, Helen

They're going to affect the best books too and I'm sure that piracy is going to reduce their sales even more and that's going to remove the incentives to create the better books even more.

Peter Coelho would strongly disagree with you - http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080124/08563359.shtml

I'll be writing to my MP (again) and I urge others to do the same: http://www.writetothem.com/

Ok, I'll bite. I'm Scottish and have lived in 3 Countries outside of the UK, 2 of these are in the EU.

The UK is already overcrowded

I think you mean

Allowing Workers to freely migrate within the EU was a big mistake and will drive wages down.

I read this argument all the time but I've always received above average wages when working in another Country. Part of the reason I like to work in other Countries is because I want to compete and see how I can cut in in another economy. How does my Scottish education match up to others? Can I be better than I am? Can I learn new skills/methods?
Are you afraid to compete? Would you prefer a handout from the Government? How about a job for life and never having to better yourself?
Part of the reason the UK and other Countries allow/need this immigration is due to the constant need for growth in our economy. How can reducing the overall headcount help this?

For those of you not familiar with the term Firth:

"usually a large sea bay, which may be part of an estuary, or just an inlet, or even a strait"

I moved to Ireland last week and placed an order with Eircom for broadband. After reading this story earlier today I decided to have another look around for an ISP in my area. I found one, placed an order with them and cancelled my Eircom order. It's not that I want to download copyrighted material, it's just that having a home broadband connection is just far too important to trust the "evidence" of these record companies.