Sort of like the people (like me and you) wanting to have the government (ala the police) protect us if someone comes into our house and threatens us with a big scary knife.

That's the first legitimate reason for not having SOPA that I've heard.

If you dont' want to pay "abusive" costs then don't.

Oh please. Like perhaps I'm getting the police to be my "personal bodyguard" if I call the cops for someone breaking my my house and stealing stuff.

Enabling the theft of intellectual property is abetting. Criminal activity pure and simple.

Well this is exactly what MS needs to be spending their money on. Sheesh.

I'm curious what kind of public rape would be going on if the top recipients happened to be republicans vs. democrats.

Another typical pentagon purchase. Someone gotta buncha $$$ from some lobbyists and bingo we got game!!!

OMG this is soooooo magical. I don't know if I can stand it. Next think you know they'll be making watching you don't need to wind and carriages that don't need horses.

Not to throw too many stones, but...

hey, since it's apparently what the author wants, why not just like 12 year olds buy these. Maybe even 8 yrs olds.

Please, please, please don't say Apple doesn't release Beta versions (or better yet talk about things that are only in beta or even alpha) in order to gain marketshare. That's what they do. Puffing up products (which are often more usable) is very much a page of the apple playbook.

These are the lamest alleged txt I've ever seen. The answer is no. No one is using these.

The society we've created that results in people being "up in arms" with someone trying to protect themselves from theft is really pretty sad. We've more or less nurtured an "if you can, then you should" approach to stealing software, music, videos, etc. Anything electronic.

Seriously.

Lord please spare us from fanboyz

This just in...

Apple has unfortunately become quite desperate.

The term phobia has several meanings - and then there is usage. We can all start to use the term phobia as meaning "strong dislike" once you can cite 3 examples other than homophibia where it is used in this way. In contrast, we can probably search for the term phobia (excluding homophobia) and find about 100 terms.

Well first of all a phobia is a fear.