@Chinedu Opara: Plenty of Eastern ones following their lead. Anyway don't hate the player, hate the game. It's all DeBeers' fault.

@Fekdep: By that argument no one should do anything lest it might eventually lead to something objectionable. I won't strawman and come up with a facetious example, but I'm sure there are many.

@grassisgreen: Have a Zombie award for services to Necro (threads).

@pjcard: Thanks for the replies guys, some interesting points :)

Your media really has everyone's knickers in a twist about those scanners, don't they? I wonder if ours will be as bad when they come into use. Personally I couldn't care less.

@916CALLTURK: No, £9k is allowed in 'exceptional circumstances' only.

@RuBBa_cHiKiN: North Gizmodo is Best Gizmodo: Given a £6k/year fee that would leave students with a $28k debt.

@Jonn: Feel ashamed to feel ashamed day.

Last time I checked, the messenger didn't choose what got delivered, or where, or how.

@ttringle: Sigh. Did you just get out of bed? Reread my post, and then have a little think.

@blash: I think you're right, could lead to a whole new class of community or small privately owned movie theaters to rival the multiplexes. Cool.

@Goopplesoft - Reliant Robin of whitenoise: "probably cameras in the room"

@rcs914: I don't know about the US, but I'm pretty sure some UK student film clubs get around the public performance thing by making it members only.

@brijazz: What I meant was that proprietary standards aren't helpful to the consumer in the long run, for instance all those iPod docking speakers could have been gadget docking speakers were there an open standard manufacturers could share.

A proprietary standard not catching on? OH NOES! What will the shareholders do?

@Aibyouka-kun: Thanks for the link. Nice to see what I've been thinking written down by someone else.

@trunkenmath: Amen.

@streeeeetch: Take your pick

@truthtellah: You know he was arrested on rape charges, right? Not anything to do with the leaks.

That's brilliant - both video and music.