It baffles me that this is not protected like jailbreaking of mobile devices. It is near identical, Full hardware access in order to add features, which some low-lifes use for piracy. You cant blame him for thinking he was within the law on this one, since he is when he does the same thing on his iPod.

Are there any laws similar to the european ones in question that protect consumer for the US?

You are correct people should read the article, but i have a motorola droid and the data plan i was literally forced into buying ( i was going to get it without and only use data when in range of wifi) was sold to me as unlimited. So if i try to use the product i was forced into buying to the full extent i'm penalized? that makes no sense. Sure i could have gotten a dumb phone and then i wouldn't be forced to buy the plan but then there is no wifi, and i can't switch off of verizon because i am on a family plan owned by my parents(i'm in high school)

How can you argue they are doing nothing original? They build computers using a set-up they designed all by themselves, in a manner that they believe is more cost-effective and/or powerful than Apple's set up. Under your argument innovators are really just, "stupid douchebags who want to make a quick buck without doing anything original." That's like saying that selling a non-honda car with a Honda engine is morally wrong. In that example the designer still had to make the chassis, the steering assembly, the transmission etc. just as Psystar has to pick the parts for their computers and assemble them.

Well i'm not too familiar with other devices; i do however own a Cowon S9 and love it. I've owned it for probably 7 or 8 months at this point. The S9 has an OLED screen with a near 180 degree viewing angle, a solid state drive available in 8, 16, and 32 gigabyte version. It supports flac, it can view Dvix files. it can play flash games,it has a touch screen that is unnoticeably smaller(less than a quarter of an inch). in addition to volume, play/pause track skip, and hold controls on the outer edges. It can play 8 hours of video on a single charge, or 55 hours of music. It has user customisable themes. And it is about $100 dollars cheaper than an ipod touch of the same size

That would require a leak from a major security company or a university. We can only hope one of them leaves limewire on a company laptop to leak it for the rest of the world.

Ummmmm... I happen to be running Ubuntu at the moment, and by opening "Add/Remove.." under applications it opens an interface of free applications that are installed with one-two clicks, "and everything just needs to just work, no compiling code or anything crazy." Hell I can even browse them by category or use a search bar on the top.

Green dam won't ship until it goes through a major change. Even the Chinese government would be embarrassed to relese such an unpopular piece of software. Even more so after it was discovered that a good chunk of the code was stolen