Sorry, but I beg to differ, strongly. TPB has evolved into one of the great repositories of human knowledge. If a meatspace protest could save a web site, I would be in for it. Copyright is a poison. This man is a hero of the 21st Century, and in his shoes, I simply hope that I'd display the same level of ballsiness. His arrest illustrates the power of the MAFIAA.

While this post is definitley a bit off topic, I think many of you smartphone owners out there will see the connection immediatley. Many of you, like me, probably used a blackberry as their first "smart" phone. Sure, when the apps ran at all they ran as slow as molasses on a cold winter day, but until that pesky Iphone reared its head, Blackberry was the only game in town, and they had (and still have) one thing locked down tight: THEIR KEYBOARD IS INCREDIBLE, and perfect for actually USING your smartphone to PRODUCE words instead of simply using your smartphone to consume them. Now I must admit that even though at the time I owned an OG droid, when the DX came out I RAN to the store-- I had to have one of these puppies! And indeed, it was excellent-- much faster than the OG and WOW in comparison the display on a DX really leaves the OG wanting. What I did not think about, however, was that I would miss my physhical keyboard because I wasn't too impressed with the keyboard on the OG. What I'd like to see is a ginormous phone, somewhere between 4.3 and 5.3 inches, so still clearly in "phone" territory (though I agree with poster above who states, "Not phones: Small (sic increasingly powerful and ubiquitous) computers." For once, VR (voice recognition) actually seems like it is ready to do a good deal of daily driving in the cell phone world, but there are many an occasion that you don't want someone listening to you dictate your texts, or someone doesn't want to listen to you dictating your texts, etc. I have always thought that the ideal phone would be a phone with a fairly large screen, ANDROID, and an excellent high travel keyboard (this means that when you press a button down you can really feel it, like on a blackberry keyboard). It should have entirely standard ports and connectors and use every applicable line of open source code to make itself better. I don't know the stream phone would in the end be a true android device, however it would in my mind without a doubt be the best selling cell phone ever Bahrain rate improvements in voice recognition happening in the next 3 to 6 months.

China. Italy. Australia. They're invading our turf. Us nerds/geeks/choose-your-term NEED to fight back. This is too much. This is bad. This is evil. When we screw with the Internet, amazing things can't happen. We need amazing things. DAMMIT!

Frankly, I think that the fact that this HASN't BEEN DONE BEFORE is front page news. All companies offering home phone service should offer SMS - it's become part of the phone experience. Who hasn't felt the burn of "oh, that's a home phone, I can't send a text." I used to be a text hater, but now that my phone has a keyboard, I'm all about them. God did not intend for a 26 letter alphabet to be typed on a 9-key phone. However, now that I've got qwerty on my celly, I see the utility of texting.