Though their motivations may not be so philanthropic, at least consumer electronics corporations are on the side of the people like you and I. After all, they know that consumers will not purchase crippled, copy-protected products. Hopefully, this will result in a somewhat more balanced result when laws are passed. Call me cynical, but I feel that the Hollywood lobby's advantage is quite large and the laws will likely get passed.

I don't think they're stupid, some of them have something going on upstairs. I just think they've lost interest in this site, and I don't blame them. The community is too large, too dense, and suffers from a SERIOUS case of GROUPTHINK. It's not fun anymore...

If you don't know what GROUPTHINK is, I encourage everyone to look it up and consider it next time you come back to the site... It'll take some hard work to bring this place back from the depths of technology hell...