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Yes, everyone who disagrees with you is brainwashed. That's a real healthy attitude to take.

Solution: anonymous buyers.

It is less bad. The US government doesn't have any obligation to protect the rights of citizens of some other country not living in the US. If your government disagrees, tell them to sign a treaty.

It just means they feel like the other party is forgetting about the cost. For example, if I hear my friend raving about this new phone that only costs 99 dollars, I might remind him that it would require him to upgrade to a data plan that costs 20 dollars more per month. That doesn't mean that the phone isn't still worth buying, just that it's not as cheap as I think he is imagining it to be.

No. I validate the credit card before completing the transaction. Maybe you should check whether the game is terrible before you buy it.

The approaches are not mutually exclusive.

That's an incredibly naive expectation. ISPs have been replacing error pages with their own search pages serving ads since the 90s.

But you already don't stop your ISP from interfering with your traffic in transit. So why is it a big deal if you continue to not do it? Or is seeing a few ads more important to you than, say, all of your email?

Yes, this technique could potentially be misused. You can say the same thing about any technology.

If the best argument in favor of HTTPS everywhere is that it will prevent your ISP from showing you ads, the movement is doomed.

They are not making it necessary, only convenient. You're not harmed by seeing a few ads.

Even if you hire a 50/50 split, it doesn't solve the problem because the ratio in conference attendees is far from even. The conditional probabilities still lead to the conclusion the article complains about.

Software is commonly accepted as copyrightable, and no exception is made for quines.