A jury of Jammie Thomas-Rasset's peers just levied a $1,920,000 fine against the young mother of 4 for sharing 24 songs on Kazaa.The defendant, and others, are basically saying... "Good luck collecting it... you can't get blood from a turnip."They (the RIAA) don't have to collect it. That wasn't the point. They made an example by publicly "executing" her.The RIAA just showed every "tweenie," teen, pirate and casual illegal downloader in the country that they will subpoena every IP address, data…See More

I'm glad to see Opera working to grow, and try new things...However, from what I am reading about this new product... nothing about what they're doing sounds good.As I understand it, Opera Unite turns your desktop into a webserver, and uses Opera's infrastructure to proxy-route other users, to that desktop-webserver.The security, bandwidth and legal considerations of this idea are absolutely terrifying.Sadien, Inc's core consulting practice focuses…See More

I'm glad to see Opera working to grow, and try new things...However, from what I am reading about this new product... nothing about what they're doing sounds good.As I understand it, Opera Unite turns your desktop into a webserver, and uses Opera's infrastructure to proxy-route other users, to that desktop-webserver.The security, bandwidth and legal considerations of this idea are absolutely terrifying.Sadien, Inc's core consulting practice focuses…See More