People are willing to pay what they find acceptable for content. Annoying people and don't letting them access what they're paying will only make them move to other services that provide it for free and without annoyances...

I hope it will be better as I'm now a emigrant :( If I would stay happy and with my family I would be really worse (15% salary cut this year in Portugal, all taxes have risen, etc, etc)...

Because there is no native app so light and yet with a simple GUI and friendly use :p
The only uTorrent replacement I can suggest is kTorrent, that is not so light, but it's very good :D

Aside from having a huge library that helps you build your services, and a language that almost forces you to program well (A bad programmer can be bad in any language, but Java won't give you so many "liberties"), and... I guess you already see the point ;)

I don't need an Nvidia driver for the computer to work if my video card is an ATI.

Suppose you change video card ;)

If there are drivers for a hundred different makes and models of viseo card, and you only have one card in the system, that seems to be a huge inneficiency, taking up disk space and possibly memory, and a possibly a hundred "if" statements to go through for the driver actually needed to initialize.

That's where modules take place. Only the driver modules you require are loaded. You can even delete from your harddrive the modules you don't use. It won't take any ram space the modules you don't use.

The fact that you can make an installer that only installs on your computer the modules you require, doesn't mean that there is no source code for the modules you don't use :p