Canada should patent the color blue, the letter "n", and the smell of waffles.. then put the US at the top of their piracy watchdog list.

If it's so beneficial for the users, then why would someone want to pay for premium to get rid of it (as they suggest)?

We can't make people people want to buy our product, so lets force them to buy it, whether they want it or not.

Because the people who back he IIPA are the same people behind the networks who stream everything for free to people within the US (via HULU etc), but decided it's not worth their time to try and secure advertisers in other countries, and put them all on a IP ban list. It shouldn't be a big surprise that when there are no legitimate avenues to obtain things, people would resort to piracy. But I doubt they actually care, because it gives them fodder to argue for tighter restrictions..

Perhaps then they should reconsider hiring marketing firms to create bogus youtube accounts (which go to great lengths to appear to be owned by trendy youths) to post full videos of their artists works. You can't complain about the medium if you are using it to your advantage...

Gun control is clearly to blame -- If she had been packing heat, she could have defended herself! But seriously folks... If any good comes of this, it will be in the form of a people's movement that calls for greater responsibility in political speech, to disagree rather than demonize each other. Here's hoping Jon Stewart picks this up and runs with it.

What about the Phonebook? They've been infringing on facebook's trademark for a long time now, over 100 years actually.

Hi there. It's great to see that you've bought into the video game industry's marketing juggernaut (thereby identifying yourself as a gamer, keen to spend more money on said games), but some of those companies have contributed some quality titles; possibly not of your generation or preferred genre, but true none-the-less.

ffs is it so hard not to speed? unless you have a woman in labor in your vehicle what is your excuse really?

CCP is one of the few companies that understands it's player-base and consistently treats them right. EVE players do not want to be babysat. They do not want to be protected from their own stupidity. If they want to be able to take a risk, they don't want some in-game barrier preventing them from doing what they want with their own (virtual) property. And so, CCP lifted the restrictions on PLEX, with a HEAVY warning as to what could happen if a player choses to leave a station with PLEX in the hold. So what does this guy do? He takes 74 of them, in a KESTRAL (which, for those unfamiliar with EVE, is basically a newbie ship). No amount of armed escorts would have made a difference because this ship will be rubble in 2 shots. This person chose to gamble, and they lost.

or should the ISPs charge the royalty group for all the bandwidth they use because royalty groups failed to protect their content properly?

i wish them the best (and will sign up when i can) but i can't help but think this will fail hard. the vast majority of facebook users are not concerned with privacy, rather they actively seek to do away with it. they want to make sure each of their 700 friends knows every inconsequential detail of their daily lives; facebook provides them with the platform to do this, diaspora likely will not. diaspora may find a niche but i can't see it taking a significant dent out of facebook's market share.

half of the people posting here probably didn't read the article and are going off about google when all that is stored is the zoom level. how can anyone genuinely be concerned about this?

rather than the usual old billy borg, can we please use the following pic in the future for "bing" related stories? http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c80VLgi6U98/Ry8F5zaAKdI/AAAAAAAAABs/sq8bd5DQRXE/s200/chandler.jpg

I can't. I just deleted a crap load of .flac files after downloading the .mp3 versions and not being able to tell the difference while listening through some pretty decent headphones. I'd rather have a few more free gigabytes. 256 and 320 bitrate are great, 128 is another story.