What truly amazes me is they were ever to adopt such insane policies. As consumers, we're supposed to let the market know what we'll allow. Those business should've reacted to the RIAA by telling them to go screw a fence-post. We need to stand our ground otherwise the sky is the limit for advertisers and the like. If we're not careful now, we'll someday be looking at shitty Pepsi and Sony ads displayed from satellites polluting the starry night sky.
Sometimes I wonder why people put up with so much shit... draw the line somewhere, guys... seriously. I don't put up with much of what companies and advertisers do already... so on principle, I boycott alot of products. Unfortunately, it has no effect because so many people are so easily duped.
A side note: My friend's cable just got cancelled because his girlfriend downloaded a few episodes of Charmed. Pretty sad, really.
Myself, on the other hand, will continue downloading movies until Hollywood can provide us with some original scripts. Anyone else notice 2004 was pretty much nothing but sequels? ... and 2005 is thus far following an identical trend. Let the bits flow, people