>The company acknowledged that it can be hard to know what terms are being used to find infringing content

They could start with the names of all currently showing films and current chart singles. I'm sure the MPAA and the RIAA would be just thrilled.

The fall of the Soviet Union was largely triggered by repeated disastrous grain harvests in the late 1980s. The cost of the Afghan war was certainly a contributing factor but not to the extent that is generally claimed. I suspect the Star Wars stuff was just an attempt to justify the money spent by hitching it to the "Our plan was to bankrupt the Soviets all along" story.

'American business is under assault from counterfeiters and pirates every day, seven days a week,'

Somebody call the waaaaaaaambulance!

Coincidence that this is posted today. I've been in their former offices all afternoon carrying off auctioned loot. It was kind of sad to see really.

It's unlikely to end up a positive thing for the people.

Indeed. If you read down this a bit you'll notice that they also want US style software patents. Idiots.

Doesn't work though. Look at how many Windows games are written for the Xbox360 and are therefore run fine with Directx9.

Last I heard, American soldiers were supposed to be fighting to preserve a way of life, a way which includes freedom of expression.

What? Where?

It's not like they look at it again once it gets voted on.

I wasn't aware they looked at them before they vote either.

I do hope you are not one of the many people who will blame this government as they implement responsible tightening of spending in order to ensure the future of our country? My son is 2 and so has £17K of debt - his share of the UK national debt. That's a total discrace. The current generation should be ashamed of themselves and all that they did under whilst under the last government.

0_0 For a moment there I thought I was reading the Daily Mail.

Cyrus does this too.

So far, the coalition seems to be the best government the UK has had while I've been alive

The previous lot did a reasonable job of actually running the country. It was the civil liberties stuff and of course the stupid wars that were the problem. However having experienced 18 years of previous Conservative governments I'm hardly going to believe that they'd have been any improvement there. The current lot show no signs of improvement on the stupid wars and I fully expect their policies on civil liberties to be no more than window dressing. For example the ID cards will be scrapped but the massive database will remain in some form. Fortunately the rank and file of the Lib Dems seem to be waking up to the awful reality of the situation that the Orange Book idiots have left them in but probably too late to save them from a return to single figure representation at the next election.

I hope someone comes up with a cheap design for a reflector. Hopefully efficient enough to give the operators a taste themselves.

Speed cameras are required to be highly visible in the UK which is why they have big fluorescent panels on the back.

Better solution: find another car the same as yours and clone the plates.

it seems the whole 'unintended acceleration' phenomenon is to a large extent like a US version of this