For many modern companies, how they do what they do is their added value.

From a commercial perspective, one of the beauties of having your software on your own server (HTTP or otherwise) as opposed to distributing an executable application is that the distributed exe is much easier to reverse engineer than when it is on a black box many routers and a few firewalls away from the hopeful reversing engineer.

Make sure you're not delivering business logic/intellectual property/key processes to all of their web clients. /gg

Before the RIAA, the BSA was the most reviled.

The RIAA will continue to be until another commercially interested company does worse according to some (then current) social/moral compass.

As I recall, the BSA fostered the RIAA. Maybe to get the heat off of themselves. What could the RIAA help spawn to draw the heat?

The whole claim of zero emissions is ludicrous.

The metal is heated in the presence of carbon to produce refined metal and carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide.

These happen to be greenhouse gasses.

QED /gg