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I also have ebooks. However, maybe it's because I grew up reading books, I can't imagine myself not reading a real one. There's this amazing feeling whenever I get a book, especially a used one.

WOW. I haven't even gotten my hands on 4s. And unannounced iPad3 tablet. I wonder what they'll produce next.

I have the same question. I tried googling it, but no luck.

I sort of expected this reply, needless to say I'm not surprised. I compiled the list just so people will know, if they go after this thread, then they're sickening.

I just logged on to my Facebook account, and it's working fine on my end.

I didn't feel any kind of racism in this article. There were some points that may have used a little more explanation, but definitely no issue on racism.

Wow. Bribery at its most sickening.

I agree. I wonder if they'll start coming after sites like Youtube and Tumblr as well.

I tried looking that up, as of typing, they have not yet issued any statement. So I think they're still good. However, it must be remembered that Rapidshare has had some issues as well too.

Rapidshare has already been involved in numerous lawsuits in Germany and I believe have come out on top on the important ones.

I mean, not sole reasons

I completely agree. I'd like to point out as well that even movies that aren't supposed to be in 3D are now in 3D. So really, these sites are the are the sole reason of increased revenues

Supposedly, if your hard drive is encrypted, customs agents can hold your computer indefinitely if you refuse to provide the password. The irony is that gigabytes of encrypted data cross national borders every second -- over the internet. So dump your important data in an encrypted file and put it on a file sharing web site, or a VPS, or whatever, and download it again when you get across the border. Nobody with "interesting" data (and half a brain) will be physically bringing it across a border. The searches are useless.

My concern with this US border search is the idea of confidentiality. One, we've all seen movies. Lots of them. And though we may laugh at how easily the antagonist acquired the needed information from the protagonist, it can't be said that it can not happen in real life. And this US border search is making that highly possible. Also, for doctors and lawyers, this confidentiality thing I'd like to believe, is sacred. So when another person sees that on their laptops or gadgets, would it be the same as doing a breach of contract or doing something against their oath?

But the thing is, even if pirate bay stops operating, there are still other sites like btjunkie.org and the like. Also, with sites like tumblr where a lot of artists blog and share using the reblog button, it's almost impossible to put it to a stop. I also don't think Hollywood artists mind as the like of Diana Agron and Kevin Mchale even reblog the very same videos that FOX produced.

Saying movie goers is probably incorrect. However, I still stand by what I said that most of movie lovers, especially people between 15-22 who do not have enough means to go to every single movie they want to watch just wait for a copy of these movies to be available online. According to Hollywood, this is cheating. Pirate Bay as the name suggests thinks so too. But still, downloading movies has no significant effect of the number of movies being released every year. So really, I don't think show business as a whole is affected.

With sites like piratebay,org and btjunkie.org, in some sense, "show business" as an industry is affected. The number of people hitting the cinema would be less since most movie goers would just wait for the "copy" to be available for download. But the workers behind show business aren't really being let out by their employers, so I don't think it's such a huge problem.

After this, I think btjunkie would be next. btjunkie.org is the closest one to pirate bay in terms of the number of movies and songs in their data base

I think it would be good if only registered voters can give campaign money to candidates. If they want to call it donations, then so be it. BUT only registered voters can give donations as well.

Joel is right on some terms, however the problem is how are we going to know who gets to join in this share of air time on these sites? Also, who is going to determine that?

So I multiplied the $30/day by the 9,600 employees in Mountain View and New York by the 251 days Google is open every year. Remember that Google probably spends a lot more than this, because there are employees outside those offices, and because visitors are there all the time eating.

The grand total: By our guesstimate, Larry and Sergey are spending at least $72,288,000 per year to fill their workers' pie-holes. How can they afford to do that? Easy, of course: Last year Google (GOOG) earned $4.2 billion.