Loathe as I am to thank Microsoft (as a company) for much of anything, I'm glad to see that rational people actually work for them. It's awesome to see sane-mi

Loathe as I am to thank Microsoft (as a company) for much of anything, I'm glad to see that rational people actually work for them. It's awesome to see sane-minded people shed light on the realities of what information ultimately is, and how and why we share it. You can't keep clamping down on people for whispering secrets in each other's ears. To do so is to deny an individual of their own humanity. This is especially true, with regard to trivial pastimes, like reading works of fiction and experiencing the recording of music, sounds and abstract noise that we create with the hopes that people will actually listen to them. Hopefully, these aspects of human behavior will be embraced as normal facts of life, rather than rejected as malicious and criminal. People who create content, after all, are really paid thinkers in the Greek sense, and that should be a truth that's understood by all these stubborn rights holders. I hope the reaction to investigations like this will encourage tolerance of file sharing, rather than harden the resolve to purge it from whatever society we find ourselves living in decades from now. Thank you, Peter Biddle, Bryan Willman, Paul England and Marcus Peinado!