My forum software gets spammed. My solution is to ask real users to email me to activate the account. I get 200 sign-ups a day and all are spammers so i just filter them from my inbox. What does this guy do? Sends me an email warning that the account is spam bringing his unsolicited spam message into my inbox. I think I've had about 5 messages from him and probably have had about 30,000 spam sign-ups.

Did they ever consider charging for it?

If the drivers are not GPL, you don't get them. You don't even get gmail as that is provided in binary form by google.

I think the burden of proof is on you, rather than your target. I could sue you for saying defamatory things about me, but you'd have to prove that you never did - despite me not even providing a single quote showing how you may have defamed me.

Well who created the all-mighty then?

It's no surprise that kids might feel or make more of symptoms when there is the possibility they could get out of doing something they'd rather not do. What I am surprised about is that people have noticed they are ill in school but not at home. There's about 8 wifi networks around my home, there's only *one* at work. The wifi is not the common denominator here.

It's been out of beta for over a month as the DATED press release states!

It's an actual file that facilitates you connecting to their *own* tracker. And without that tracker you wouldn't be able to download the file via bittorrent.

They aren't just telling people about files that are available, they are colluding in the distribution of them. They are naively pretending they are ignorant of the types of files they are facilitating the downloading of yet a simple search of they own site tells you *exactly* what files are being shared. How are they supposed to know what "Wolverine-Workprint.avi" is, they only have the name.... well when thousands of people download a torrent for it under your movies category, I'd say it was clear what it was.

"Does this mean that Google reserves the right to filter my web browsing experience in Chrome (without my consent to boot)?"

No, they'll only do it with your consent. The 'consent' being given when you agree to the EULA upon installing the binary build they give you. Of course, you can just disagree and not accept it.

They aren't targeting these emails at your average /.er though.

Well they aren't ever going to be immune from it, but they certainly don't deserve to be pirated which you allude to with your comments on the price and the quality.

If it's good enough to seek out a pirate copy, then it's good enough to buy. $28 is NOT a lot to pay for something, I doubt anyone is out there aspiring to be able to one day afford $28 apart from people who think they have a sense of entitlement to own everything they want, despite not owning the conviction to go out spend honest money on it.

He deserves poor sales if he has wrongly priced the product but that price is not making pirates out of otherwise decent people who *really want* to pay/play.