Originally Posted by holograph

i will only add following.. in regards to you and piracy

if you were only talk about technology and how greatly it can be used and help us all,
if you would acknowledge simple fact that sites like pirate bay facilitate much more illegal activity than fair use, I would never see you in light of protecting pirates and what they do on top of providing fair use. they had to defend themselves not because of fair use issues (there're none that massive and global like piracy issues) but because their service facilitates so much copyright infringement. it is a global problem on a massive scale - many industries get hurt - this affects economies and quality of future production.
you always come by not only defending and embracing great technology but as a defender of those who provide service facilitating enormous amounts of infringement, trying to cover it by tiny piece of fair usage and people's rights to use someone else's content.

you know why? when Joe comes to PB and wants to time shift he's favorite TV show and next to it he sees a link to newest and hottest movie ripped right here freely avail. to download - many will d/l it with out second thought. - that is the problem, you can't go around it until you acknowledge it. no defending of technology will work until fair use is totally separated from pirated material.

have a good day.