What a tedious, puritanical twat you come across as.

How much is "like $10,000"?

From TFA:

It will be interesting to see if the likes of Amazon honour the publishers wishes, or whether they still insist on using DRM. This might finally damage the Kindle business model. In a similar situation, I recently purchased the new Stephen King audio book directlty from Simon & Schuster, as it is in a DRM free MP3 format. Who would buy from Audible if the same material was available elsewhere in a better format?

That's not it at all. I'm not prepared to pay for content that is inconvenient to use. I am much more likely to buy content if it is DRM free. This is great publicity for Tor. More power to them.

I am more likely to download an illegal copy, as it will be DRM free. Why should I pay to get the product in a less convenient form. They are not even allowing themselves to play on a level field with the pirates, as they have an inferior product.

Bringing mathematical rigour to fields of research where it has previously been ignored can clearly provide some interesting insights.

I'm sorry, but that is utter bullshit, or should I say pigshit, given the context. The penalty for apostacy in Islam is death. No discussion, no appeal, no equivocation. Many of your so-called "western" Muslims are the most fundamental of them all. This is a martial, militant and vile religion. No excuses. All right-minded people should be appalled by this. Utterly appalled.

That's a nice little sound-bite, but it really does not stand up to even trivial scrutiny. You cannot worship non-belief. There are simply too many things not to believe in.

But they do still use blackmail tactics. They will not reveal what patents are concerned. They will not even tell companies that they are threatening to sue until they have signed an NDA. That is not the behaviour of an host, moral company simply seeking fair payment for their R&D. It is extortion.

Progress is not a smooth curve. You have to take some risks, or else everything stagnates. Don't be such a luddite.

Very good swearing. All that swearing must mean that your point is valid.

That's being a bit pedantic - and a bit wrong. A quick survey of your favourite dictionary will show that Evangelical is a tightly bound to a religious connotation. In recent years some have started to use it to mean enthusiastic promotion of any subject, but the roots of the word are religious.

Perhaps this just means that American Football is unusually predictable.

And how is that good for the environment? TFA claims a reduction of 20% in fuel consumption. I assume it's based on a reduced need to brake/vary speeds. Do large numbers of people really all want to go to the same place at the same time? Why not just catch a real train. Would anyone really wait in a large car park for the next road train to leave? It sounds suspiciously like bollocks. Why is the EU throwing my money at this?

This is why leaks are a good thing.