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Because that worked so well with the phone companies.

Seconded. This was a good course.

SQLite does seem to have that effect of inspiring other public domain works: http://unlicense.org

> The fact that trolls use the law instead of violence…

Law enforcement is violence.

Asimov's "The Last Answer" is perhaps more profound:

http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-answer/

"At the time of writing the site uses 21 virtual machines (VMs) hosted at different providers. [...] All virtual machines are hosted with commercial cloud hosting providers, who have no clue that The Pirate Bay is among their customers."

Erik Voorhees's response, at length:

http://moneyandstate.com/reflections-right-privacy-response-...

I have to confess to some surprise that this question is still being asked in 2014.

The flashbangs and middle-of-the-night no-knock raids are standard practice now. And they have consequences:

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/toddler-critically-burn...

"If you were a computer-loving male child who took a lot of shit from your peers, I suspect you heard something similar from the adults in your life. Maybe it was 'Sure, things are bad now, but when you're a little bit older, women will LOVE guys like you!' Or maybe it was 'That kid who makes fun of you now will be working at a gas station when you run a big fancy computer company and marry a supermodel!' If you were once young, nerdy and male, it is not unlikely that your future sense of self-worth was funded with a non-consensual IOU from the world's women."

"Dr. Eckel describes himself as 'a scientist and professing six-day creationist and a member of the technical advisory board of the Institute for Creation Research...' Many scientists are religious. This is not to question Dr. Eckel's religious beliefs, but to question his ability to think scientifically. He believes there is scientific proof that the world was created in six days and that evolution does not exist. This should at least raise eyebrows when the co-chair of [the AHA] panel charged with giving scientifically sound dietary advice has a financial conflict of interest and proselytizes for beliefs that are anti-scientific."

"A document included in the trove of National Security Agency files released with Glenn Greenwald’s book No Place to Hide details how the agency’s Tailored Access Operations (TAO) unit and other NSA employees intercept servers, routers, and other network gear being shipped to organizations targeted for surveillance and install covert implant firmware onto them before they’re delivered."

"Pot farmers in the Sinaloa region have stopped planting due to a massive drop in wholesale prices, from $100 per kilo down to only $25. One farmer is quoted as saying: 'It's not worth it anymore. I wish the Americans would stop with this legalization.'"

"A study led by Michael Worobey at the University of Arizona in Tucson provides the most conclusive answers yet to two of the world's foremost biomedical mysteries of the past century: the origin of the 1918 pandemic flu virus and its unusual severity, which resulted in a death toll of approximately 50 million people."