also, i never said it wasn't ever reasonable to demonize him... i just asked the reader to think about it. the fact that you assumed that from my question says a lot about your motives. some people hold bill gates reputation in high regard.

Just so. The proposed law makes it illegal for software to share without your permission, but it hardly makes it impossible. People could perhaps claim that they were unaware that their software was distributing anything at all, then point at this law and claim the software was supposed to have warned them of this fact but failed to do so. Not that they would necessarily succeed with such a defence... IANAL.

This is true but that's why it's good to have designers and developers rather than relying on someone who does it all because it's hard to ensure you build a top notch website that looks fabulous and is completely secure.

There are also a bunch of programs that is not so clear about them being P2P. Spotify and Voddler comes to mind, but there are more.