It wouldn't hurt to go to his web-site and thank him.

Only question 1 relevant, unless by "majority" you meant "most money".
Even the Pope has spoken out against this kind of thing, as on effort to oppress poorer people.

Than being said, the solution is to label this kind of actions for what it is, stand with the Pope ( I'm NOT Catholic ), get other religious leaders to understand and see is as an effort to oppress and control people. This discussion needs to be taken to religious groups, because that's where the majority of people begin to think about and discuss moral issues.

There no use trying to convince the intellectuals, they already understand the dangers and have been speaking out against them. They have also been largely ignored for decades.

I know this goes against the general slashdot-geek philosophy but this is class warfare and war makes strange bedfellows.

Fox new brings (_Topic_of_your_choice_) Debate to a new Low.

Summary: Fox News collected information from various experts and opinionists on the (_Topic_of_your_choice_) then choses to only air the information about (_Topic_of_your_choice_) from the opinionists who opinions on (_Topic_of_your_choice_) that closely match Fox News running narrative. Surprisingly all other research, studies and statistics were curtly summed up and presented as "... unsurprising theres are some studies 'out there' which can be contrived to present a different viewpoint ...". This is apparently done to maintain the "Fair and Balanced" integrity of Fox News.

So and up stream ISP took some action to take these server off the internet.
  So did they
    A. Cut the tubes leading to zeus
    B. clog the tube with something
    C. install a calve on the tube

Cause if they didn't (A) cut the tube, won't zeus be able to pump stuff into the internet again by (B) having their internet tube cleaned or (C) have someone walk out to the curb and turn the valve back on?

-GW

P.S. could we flush a tube-bursting bomb down zeus's tube and reall shut them down for good

First off I do not work for the RIAA.

America needs to wake up and realize the damage these PIRATES are doing to the economy. If they cannot pay the fines then they should be imprisoned for the equivalent number of years it would take for them to have earned the amount of money required for their fine.

In this case it is a simple calculation: Average Hourly wage in US: $18.46 (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm)
Fine: $80,000 per song * 24 = $1.92 million
Jail time: ($80,000 * 24 songs) / $18.46 per hour
                      4334 days or 11.87 years in prison

Obviously America does not understand the vast natural resource and source of wealth music represents.

Lets take a look quick look at just on source of music distribution, the iTunes store.

As of February 2008 Apple has sold over 4 billion songs ( http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/02/26itunes.html) we know that the legal value of each digital copy those songs to be worth $80,000.
That is 320 trillion dollars worth of goods people, since just April of 2003 !!!!
Now consider that a song is copyright protected for the lifespan of the artist plus 150 years (let round that to 180 years). Now lets look at the math again.
Yearly value: $320 trillion / 5 years = $64 trillion per year
Value of the music that existed on February 2008 over the life of the copyright:
$64 trillion * 180 years = $11.52 quadrillion dollars

An that would be if no new songs were recorded over the next 180 years.

How important is that number?
Well in 2008 the GDP of the world was a paltry $69.49 trillion. (CIA fact book, all amounts are in USD) Which means that one can safely say that the value of music that existed Feburary 2008 is worth more than the sum of the GDP of the WORLD over the last 200+ years.
Not that the RIAA needs to brag, but evidently the music industry was responsible for the lion's share of the Worlds GDP in 2008.

Now you can understand just how much of a threat piracy is.