Nobody ever said laws had to be sane :)

Which isn't exactly true. While the iPhone is classified 5A992 and OK to export to CN, 5A00* items are restricted from export to CN without a license or exception.

To top it off they slap ITAR on it to make it a pain in the balls to sell it to anyone BUT the govt.

You sir are hereby granted 10 internets for almost making me choke on my mini-muffin.

Presumably he's noting in the sale that the activation key is included. Either way it's still a pointless waste of resources. AutoSue made their money on the sale, they should move on and stop feeding the lawyers.

Considering it's an American company using an American law, I didn't think it was too far of a strech to assume anyone reading the comment would know I was referring to America.

why we're not the leaders of innovation anymore. Seriously, these guys should stop wasting time on this nonsense and innovate already. They made their money on the sale, go make something else to make more.

Who reads the effing article.. I obviously didn't, the CNN version I caught this morning mentioned none of the previous attempts at educating the participants. I shall crwal back in my hole now

if the infection rate would have been even lower had they just educated the participants about prevention... All of those infected were thrown to the wolves so to speak just to see what would happen.

What do you have against paying for the content?
I wouldn't mind paying a nominal fee to have all of my shows in one spot available on demand, even if they tack a commercial onto the begining.

I would of course demand a level of service to match however, including the ability to watch on my TV via Boxee / Xbox Live or similar.

Not everything can be totally free, I'm cool with paying for things I use.

Depricating Direct Show in favor of their new Media Foundation isn't "blocking third party codecs".

You can still use whatever codec you want, they just don't support it, same as always. Nothing has changed in regards to setting registry entries or using automated hacks to use third party codecs in Windows, the same as it was for Vista and XP.

This is a whole lotta FUD spreading.

Windows != Windows Mobile

Los Alamos has nuclear materials?!? I just don't believe it...

Most angencies have an enforcement arm, Census just got theirs last year. Yeap, even the Census department has a branch with badges and guns now.

A lot of really smart people saw this coming, but as long as the money is flowing people have a tendancy to see it in a different light, ie: "Oh, I'll get out before this catches up to me, because I'm Smart".