Record corporate profits do not mean that piracy is not hurting people. Ask the Japanese if piracy is so benign, their manga and anime industry is crippled by the near universal adoption of piracy by their foreign markets.
The music industry relies on aging talent to draw paying crowds of 'pre piracy' baby boomers, and if you look at the state of mainstream music, you can easily see how creativity and risk taking has been eliminated. Anything without mass appeal is si...
No trust for google. They are a marketing company that exists to steal your personal information. Block all their ads and blacklist them.
Dream of mankind spreading out to unlimited resources, instead of solving the problems we have here. That's a winning game plan.
If, and that's a huge IF, we ever manage to waddle over to another star system, we will just despoil and pillage it like we have Earth.
After we solve the whole warfare, poverty, famine thing, then maybe, maybe , we can talk about your flash gordon fantasies.
Actually, grifter, America had a chance for real world peace after the collapse of the USSR, but threw it away for greed and invasion.
We instigated Afghanistan uprising in 79. We instigated the breakup of the balkans. We gave our buddy Saddam the green light to attack iran then invade Kuwait then played white knight in desert storm.
We invaded Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Pakistan. yes, pakistan. We bomb Somalia and yemen.
Now we antagonize...
So it will all come down to the quality of nintendo's games.
Like.. uh... you know, that game with the guy who.. um, the one with mario?
My only fear is that google will suck every piece of personal information out of us like a giant vacuum.... they are too addicted to info to pass up a chance at system level data collection...
If one actually reads the article, the researchers stated that they only found monitors on 'top 100' torrents of recent movies and music releases. So this is targeted at people who steal the choicest consumer IP's. And really, what kind of defense is there for stealing a screener of the avengers?
He is a very low priority, to be sure. They could have gotten him any time in the last few years. Funny how he had enough money to disappear in Cambodia... hmmm...
Hating on microsoft is so 1999.
I see what the net and wireless devices are doing to kids.
They are being deformed by this stuff and they don't have a choice.
No, I don't love it.
The whole system is flawed though. Let's say you want to __set up a heavy manufacturing concern in mainland China.__ The risk is that it could either be good or total crap. The thing is you can't really tell and then end up forking over cash, to find out that it could have been a load of crap.
How in hell did you get so many bubbles? Do they give them away with breakfast at waffle house?
It's theft of service and he makes millions off it. And it ...
Well made, mid range earbuds are better.
Funny how this case demonstrates why SOPA needed to be passed.
Amazing how people will grovel for and cheer on a despicable man who made a fortune by charging for access to pirated movies and entertainment.
The handful of idiots who actually trusted their non-infringing data with an obviously illegal operation have no recourse.
Kim dotcom is everything the freetards imagine hollywood tycoons to be.
Yeah.. every body hypes up cyberweapons as the next big thing, but they are like a one shot cannon - your opponent will have a full copy of the weapon.
This case validates the need for SOPA style legislation. If you can;t shut down an obviously infringing organization like mega, then you gotta change the law.
When everything is free, everything will be worthless.
Why would I want to make homebrew games on a PS3 when I can make one on a PC with freely available, legal software...
Dead men walking...
Allow me to explain why this is wrong.
Spotify tries to compensate artists fairly for people streaming their music. This band put up 30 second tracks of silence and told people to play it all night to make them money.
How would you feel if you an artist who puts up actual music?