That man is a bona fide sociopath if anything. If he started DTecNet then the company has started growing from a very rotten core already. And given herr Schlüters previous track record, presumably a very incompetent one.

Here’s the problem. There may not be a crystal clear solution to the problem of games for instance, but there is no alternative, no real way to enforce copyright, and no way to make people stop infringing as it will continue to be that easy for as long as we have the internet at all.

It’s simply a case of choosing the lesser of two evils. And all isn’t lost for the game industry either. Valve games have had no problems obtaining massive amounts of paying customers purchasing legitimate games (indeed, most of the more serious game “pirates” I know have a well-stocked steam account).

Xbox managed to regain a big customer base for games like “Oblivion” simply by starting to officially add the more popular consumer-generated mod packs, purchaseable on the microsoft store. And so on.

We already have infinite filesharing. It’s a basic fact already and very likely to stay that way. And yet the gaming industry keeps on doing well. And this isn’t because their products aren’t pirated left, right and center. It’s because most big companies have managed to wrap their heads around the idea that even a static game can be serviced and that people are willing to pay for that service.

Oh, and by the way, there are a dozen serious studies performed by governments, think tanks, and independent universities which state unequivocally that – surprise, surprise – the average pirate supports his chosen artists with more than twice as much money in legal purchases as the “average” fully legal consumer does.

This has to do with being an enthusiast. And with not wanting to give 90 bucks out of every hundred to a middleman distributor.

“Chinese hackers and Russian hackers appear to be very talented, at least when it comes to trashing a Winbloz computer with malware.”

Trashing a windows computer, short instructions: Press Start.

“…with malware installed”: Um, yes, it’s carrying either Vista, XP or Windows 7. And running IE natively. That’s like saying an AIDS victim might suffer from a few extra STD’s…

Granted, windows 7 is better than MS’s previous works but that’s a relative term with much the same meaning as “Cleaner than…say, Djingis Khan’s underwear”.