Good. Apple has been one of the biggest pushers of DRM.

Actually, I think it's primarily on Usenet.

That's crappy... there's no throttling at the University here. Depending on the network load, you can upload between 2 and 8 MB/s... that'll get your ratio up pretty quick! No idea how fast the download can go, I've never gotten it above 1.5MB/s.

Well, the more they expand the discrimination, the more powerful the response will be. Now they'll be screwing over more than just "dirty pirates"... maybe that will help in the bigger picture.

Maybe people shouldn't switch ISPs right away. Maybe they should let themselves get disconnected. If that happens to enough people, then Eircom will be forced to change its tune due to loss of revenue.

Business seem to understand only the language of profit, as they cannot AFFORD to be ethical.

I don't consider Google totally open about this sort of thing. After all, isn't it the case that Gmail and Talk are STILL considered betas simply as part of a ploy to avoid having to include them in earnings projections? That sounds like something other than "transparency" to me. Anyone who installed Chrome on their Windows computer has probably seen how the program installs itself in the hidden AppData folder for each user, rather than in Program Files like *every* other program. Doesn't even give you a choice of directory for install. Transparent? Maybe too much so...

I use their services, but I don't trust them 100%

In one sense, I'm actually glad this happened. This sort of thing might finally mobilize people to do something... even if it's just to switch ISP's.

Which country ISP's will be next?

Indeed, my service is provided by Time Warner via a local reseller, and I'm a bit worried about them going all Comcast on me.

Indeed.

Pirate Bay's case will be extremely important in the P2P world. I wish them the best of luck.