Film Studios:

“We’ll recycle the same theme’s and franchises over and over until they’re completely worn out AND we’ll paywall the shit out of our media so everyone has to have 27 subscriptions to watch anything remotely interesting. Oh, and you’re going to like it because we said so.”

Also Film Studios:

“Wait, where are you going!? Why aren’t you giving us money??? Come back! You can’t not subscribe!”

If ISP’s are liable for piracy, so are power utilities.

Bringing back Gnutella.

This is one advantage Gnutella had/has over torrents. Kind of like a federated content library. Too bad low quality content and malware were such a huge problem.

There are many, many, many specialized enterprise applications out there that are windows only.

Agreed. I don’t understand why internet access gets treated as some sort of luxury when it is impossible to function as part of society without it.

Trying to force ISP’s to police their user’s internet traffic, as a means to stop piracy, is phenomenally stupid. All they’ve managed to do is make the internet worse for the average user while forcing a dramatic increase in the sophistication of piracy technology.

Hell, I would argue that the state and quality of pirated media is in some ways the best it’s ever been and the recording and film industries have indirectly contributed to that. Talk about irony.

The MPAA should give themselves a great big pat on the back. They, and the studios they represent have done much to not only enable piracy, but also to increase the sophistication of piracy tactics and – somewhat by extension – the quality of the material being pirated. Turns out, fucking over your customers at every possible turn has consequences.