*Obviously* this case is only dealing with superhero movies. Maybe because when you are flying at close to the speed of light, relative time progresses much slower - the flying man thinks only 1 hour has gone by, but when he gets home he finds out that 10,000 years have passed. So the copyright on all his favorite movies has expired and he can watch copied disks as much as he likes. Alone. Because the human race has become extinct and he doesn't much like the intelligent cockroaches that have inherited the earth.

The Pirate Bay case was based on the idea that Pirate Bay was somehow facilitating or aiding and abetting the "crime" of copyright infringement. This is clearly the area of law that this Canadian case is exploring. I think it is worthwhile pointing out that, according to the OP, this case was brought by Isohunt. Not thr RIAA. So I think Isohunt is hoping to clearly point out that in Canada there is no crime of aiding and abetting copyright infringement.

I own an Asus Eee PC, which has a 4GB SSD. I take it with me everywhere and, being a butter-fingered oaf, I tend to drop it everywhere too. If the Eee had a conventional HDD I'm sure it would have given up the ghost long ago. But the Eee bounces along quite happily with no damage to the SSD. Solid state is great, especially for children and folk like me!

Snekking right! The Aussie govt buy 4 million laptops, the software creators should be clambering over each other to get a contract. This would be a wonderful opportunity for Free software. Aussies should start lobbying their representatives *now*, to shun the Microsoft solution and get the children some of the good stuff. As for the "software in the cloud" solution: is Microsoft going to give each child a free internet connection at home? Somehow I doubt it. Which means poorer children won't be able to do their homework. The information divide gets wider...

"Dell have been selling servers, workstations and desktops with Linux installed for *years*." Yes, but Dell hasn't been *advertising* Linux very heavily. And that was the point made by the post you replied to.

Go on then wolfy.

If you *want* to pay for the file, why don't you just go ahead and pay for it? Is it too difficult for you to pay if there isn't a little button for you to click? Diddums.